Word: showings
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...Basically, it’s been really hard this year because designers have been really hit by the economy. A lot of designers didn’t have their own runway shows, so it was hard to persuade them to lend out their clothes for a charity show...
...speak a little about the process of requesting designers to contribute pieces for the show? Who in particular did you get this year...
...Half of the show is established names. This year we have Vera Wang, Derek Lam, Guiliano Fujiwara, and Andrew Gn, who are four of the biggest names in the industry. We always invite edgy, young designers. The other half of the show is composed of student designers. We invited 10 designers from Parsons and two RISD designers. We want the audience to look at the clothes and say, “Wow I never knew you could do that with clothes.” There are some really wild things. The bigger names are less avant-garde in their designs...
...been really tough this year. Last year we got a huge grant from Macy’s, and this year they have been really helpful, but they just couldn’t give us the grant. We really had to re-evaluate the show and decide what to keep. As a result we cut our budget so much that we’ll probably raise double what we did last year... We’re getting the space [in Northwest Labs] for a steal, but it was somewhere we always wanted to do in spite of the budget cuts...
...What relevance does this show have to students at Harvard...