Model Call for ESCAPE: Annual Spring Fashion Show!

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Hi ladies and gentlemen! It's that time of the year again. The lovely designers from the Textile and Apparel Design program are looking for models for our May 4th Fashion Show.

Try-outs will be held at Union South on February 4th from 12PM to 4PM so stop by at your convenience. Room TBD the day of the event so check out the TITU at Union South when you arrive.

Ladies, please make sure to wear tighter fitting clothes, such as a tank and leggings as we will be taking down your measurements. Please also bring a pair of heels.

We are also looking for a few men and kid models. So guys, don't feel excluded, stop on by! To all, if you have a younger sibling in the Madison area, bring them along too!

This is a wonderful opportunity to model some amazing designs and strut your stuff down the runway in front of hundreds of guests.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the model call please feel free to contact Lucy Angel at angel2@wisc.edu.

Thanks and can't wait to see you there!

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Fashion News!!! CFDA Winner!

Altuzarra Triumph
by Ella Alexander

Joseph Altuzarra is the winner of this year's CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund award. Pamela Love and Creature of the Wind's Shane Gabier and Chris Peters have been named its runners-up, announced at a dinner gala, held in New York last night.

Altuzarra will receive a $300,000 (£189,391), cash prize, while Love, Gabier and Peters will take home $100,000 (£63,117). Both winner and runners-up will be given a mentorship programme, supplied by key names from the industry.

This year's judging panel included Anna Wintour, the CFDA's Diane von Furstenberg and Steven Kolb, the Proenza Schouler designers - Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez and J Crew's Jenna Lyons.

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Fashion News: Bloggers

Can You Trust the Editorial Integrity of Personal Style Blogs? A Closer Look at How Bloggers Make Money

by Hayley Phalen

 Power bloggers with Dolce & Gabbana | Source: Harpers Bazaar

Once the provenance of earnest fashion fans on the fringes of the industry, blogs have evolved into legitimate media sources and, more importantly, big moneymakers. Just look at today’s WWD story highlighting “hot fashion bloggers” like Bryan Boy and Susie Bubble. The feature goes on to detail how each notable blogger makes their money, how many monthly page views their sites get, and presents an important question: “Bloggers sitting front row have become commonplace—as have partnerships with leading brands and fashion houses that often blur the nature of what they do: Reportage and criticism or marketing and promotion?”

Whether it’s by partnering with brands, styling shoots, receiving payment (or free product) for writing posts or getting commission on the sale of items they post about, some bloggers are seriously cashing in on their influence. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with making money. These bloggers work hard, are dedicated to their followers and add a unique voice to the fashion dialogue. “Bloggers produce original content; they have a unique talent [whether it be photographing, styling, writing] and it’s obvious,” says Karen Robinovitz, co-founder and chief creative office of Digital Brand Architects, an agency that reps “top tier bloggers.” “Why would you, for instance, hire any stylist when you can hire just as talented a stylist but one that also has 75,000 followers?”

But as blogs make the transition from personal style diaries to profit-turning businesses, some readers have begun to feel that original and unbiased content, once the keystone of what made blogs so relevant, has taken a hit.

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more on Versace for H&M

Versace: What's the bright idea?

Luxury brands have never seemed further from reach, but Versace's shrewd link-up with H&M delivers glamorous fashion at a budget price--Susannah Frankel

"Iconic pieces for young people – the essence of Versace" is how Donatella Versace describes her collection for H&M, which previewed in London yesterday and goes on sale online and in H&M stores worldwide at 9am next Thursday. Expect camping on pavements, queuing around the block and sharpened elbows when this, perhaps the finest designer offering from the Swedish high-street giant to date, drops.

H&M's link-ups with some of fashion's biggest names began in a blaze of publicity in 2004 with Karl Lagerfeld – and that sold out in a matter of hours. Its creator – who starred in the accompanying advertising campaign – has since said the experience was responsible for making him a household name.

In fact, Ms Versace, who is already among the most famous faces in the industry, was originally approached by the powers that be at the chain two years ago. At that point, the designer was concentrating, she said, on her own business, which was in the throes of restructuring following the 2008 crash, so she turned it down.

"I wanted to stabilise the main collection everywhere in the world," she told Women's Wear Daily earlier this week. Now though, with sales at Versace on the rise and its business and profile growing as a result not least of young British designer Christopher Kane's reinvention of the younger Versus line, the company has finally taken the plunge – and it couldn't be more timely.

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The Best of Versace for H&M

 

Chicago Fashion Focus Weekend!

Check out the pictures from the StyleChicago.com Fashion Week that Krisa Kuffel and Meghan Herman attended last October 21st-22nd! They also got to meet high-fashion American designer, Chado Ralph Rucci!

TASA Milwaukee Fashion Trip!

Thank you again to all the members who attended the trip! It was a great bonding time for everyone as well :) 

The trip itinerary included:

• Dinner at Trocadero before the show
• Run-Up to the Runway fashion event
• Hors d'oeuvres and cocktail
• Gallery viewing
• Impressionism Exhibition
• Fashion Show!
• Brunch at Cafe Benelux in the Third Ward
• Shopping and sight-seeing in Milwaukee
• Fabric Shopping at Canvasbacks

Now check out all the fun and fashion at the TASA Milwaukee Fashion Trip last October 21st-22nd!

 

Brunch!