Launch Event: The Anti-Runway Show of the Season
Thursday, October 7
6:30 - 10:00 p.m.
Seattle's SODO Neighborhood
Have you ever experienced a live model installation? This special event will feature installations from some of Seattle's most prominent independent designers, each will represent the creative process behind their fall 2010 line.
Learn a bit more about these talent artists below. During the event, there will be a chance for you to text to vote for the designer who inspires you most. If you haven't done so already there's still time to RSVP at rsvp@fashionnetworkseattle.com
Banchong Douangphrachanh
Born in Vientaine, Laos in 1977, Banchong Douangphrachanh has lived in Seattle since 1984. As a young child, she was a refugee from the Lao People’s Democratic Republic and has made her adoptive country her new home.
Graced with the resources in her new found country, she has gone to earn a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Washington and a Master of Fine Art in Fashion Design from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Banchong Douangphrachanh designed hundreds of pieces and has constructed over 50 outfits in both menswear and womenswear and has experience in patternmaking, fitting, construction, and tailoring. Her work has been featured in Lady Gaga’s music video Pokerface, Seattle Fashion Week 2010, the Academy of Art University Spring Runway Show, and the Vagadu Green Apparel Womenswear Chicago Fashion Show. Banchong has received coverage in Women’s Wear Daily and California Daily News, Seattle Weekly, The Seattle Times, and King 5 television, and has interned at major menswear label Nice Collective and for independent womenswears designers Verrieres & Sako, and Vagadu.
Olga Earle
Olga was born and raised in Belarus, eastern Europe and always wanted to be a designer, but the opportunity to study and develop as a designer wasn’t a possibility in her native city. She immigrated to the United States where she earned a bachelor's degree in fashion design from International Academy of Design and Technology. Now she is realizing her dream of creating original designs and working toward her goal of launching her own clothing line.
Her main source of inspiration is her personal connection with her clients, but virtually anything can be the seed for a concept, especially nature, history, and architecture. Olga considers herself a perfectionist, detail-oriented, and very European in her sense of style. Her design philosophy is to incorporate new creative ideas into styles which are sophisticated, glamorous, pleasing to the eye, and flattering to her clients.
Olga’s influences come from all places, her experience was broadened by being lucky enough to have traveled widely and to experience the fashion cultures of Paris, Rome, New York, Moscow, and elsewhere. She believes that fashion is also more intensely followed and valued in Europe in general, and growing up there sparked her awareness of fashion and her focus on it at a very early age.
Michelle Elalto
Michelle abandoned her Master of Business Adminstration-Juris Doctor program to pursue her love of fashion. What initially interested her was arranging an entire photo shoot - from concept, casting, and production - and entering into a few courses at New York Fashion Academy opened more possibilities to designing and clothing construction. A classicist by heart her designs are functional, lean, and thoughtfully simple in aesthetics. To be presently working as fashion director, her aim is to create pieces for concept shoots and editorials.
Jesica Milton
Jesica creates minimalist garments with a feminine sensibility. Each garment is thoughtfully designed and crafted in Jesica's Seattle-based studio using ethical labor practices and recycling of all fabric scraps. Her work has been featured in Lucky Magazine, Daily Candy, Seattle Metropolitan, and Seattle Magazine.
Hope to see you there!
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