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LEGO Inspired Fashion Show to raise money for Educare
From Newsok.com, Nov. 8, 2011. By Heather Warlick Moore
Fashion show featuring LEGO fashion designed by local celebrities and students
will be held to benefit Oklahoma City Educare.
Some serious LEGO lovers will be strutting on a catwalk this weekend, showcasing
their creativity, flair for fashion and passion for the famous plastic toy
blocks.
Video link. Newsok.com
At 8 p.m. Saturday, a group of the state’s top fashion designers, celebrities
and college students will throw a “LEGO-tastic” fashion show to benefit Oklahoma
City Educare.
Modeling the whimsical creations will be several Thunder Girls, professional
models and local personalities.
Former Oklahoma City Thunder player and artist Desmond Mason is one of the
designers selected to work with students from Oklahoma State University’s
fashion design program.
“Fashion design isn’t at all outside of the box for me,” Mason said. “Now, I’m
not saying I’m a designer, but I think I’m fashion forward enough, creative
enough, and artistic enough to create something unique.” Mason said his team
will create some unusual looks for the show, “everything from traditional to
modern, conservative to edgy, simple to complicated.”
Other designers include Ben Kilgore, David Caldwell, Shanna Paddock, Nicole
Moan, Teena Hicks, Lydia Sullivan, Kristen Vails and Ferris O’Brien.
Each team will create a minimum of three designs for the fashion show, and the
audience will vote on a winning design team.
Sullivan, a local hat designer, said she’s excited to participate in the Block
Party because it’s an exciting, artistic and unusual way for Oklahoma City to
further define its cultural offerings.
“We have so many progressive people here in Oklahoma,” she said. “I think (the
Block Party) is a great idea. It’s a different atmosphere — something that’s a
fun way to raise money.”
Sullivan’s “Dream Team” of student designers plans to incorporate Sullivan’s
passion for creative millinery designs into its three outfits.
Last year, the first Oklahoma City Block Party raised about $18,000 for Oklahoma
City Educare, said Shaundra North Blundell, a representative of the event.
Oklahoma City Educare serves 212 at-risk children from birth to age 5 with
year-round early childhood education. For information about Educare, go to
www.okceducare.org. The Block Party will be in the Packard Building, 201 NW 10.
The party is open to the public. General admission tickets are $75. VIP tickets
are $150 and include premier runway seating and a reception from 7 to 8 p.m. and
a chance to meet the designers.
Newsok.com
If you are interested: Tickets must be purchased at
Blockpartyokc.com
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