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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...exactly on the heels of New York, Paris, or Milan (they are five-inch stilettos after all), fashion experts around Boston contend that this is not the goal of fashion week. "I think the future of Boston Fashion Week is to be Boston Fashion Week," says Jay Calderin, who founded the event...

Author: By Nicole Savdie, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Runway Meets Back Bay | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...local industry. NOT JUST ANOTHER FASHION WEEKWhile the proliferation of fashion weeks appears to be a recent development, with eight cities celebrating inaugural ones this year alone, Boston’s has been going strong for more than a decade. Spearheaded by founder and executive director Jay Calderin, the event aspires to recreate the buzz of similar productions in New York while eschewing the unwelcoming exclusivity. “The local designers and fashion community didn’t have a central voice.... The whole Bryant Park thing was fairly new,” he says, referring to the host...

Author: By Roxanne J. Fequiere, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wicked Haute | 9/17/2009 | See Source »

Those words come from a statement released by blind Cuban lawyer Juan Carlos González Leiva this past July. Through his wife, Marítza Calderin Columbié, he has been smuggling out such messages ever since his incarceration in March 2002. In his most recent letter, dated Sept. 16, he reports that prison officials are “releasing chemical or biological substances [in his cell]…that are making me progressively very...

Author: By Duncan M. Currie, | Title: The Conscience of Cuba | 10/8/2003 | See Source »

Just as the inclusion of as many designers as possible on each runway helps recognize as many talented Bostonians as possible, the ease with which the public can attend the weekend’s events follows with the vision of the Boston Fashion Week founder and executive producer, Jay Calderin, of a Boston “fashion community.” At other major fashion events, a person needs to hand over a DNA sample or be dating (or be) someone with the last name Paltrow, Onassis or Roberts to be let into shows. Boston’s shows...

Author: By Nell A. Hanlon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Boston on the Catwalk | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

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