For those of you in the New York City area, here's an opportunity for you to get your hands on clothes by some world renown designers and donate your time to a good cause! Several Fashion Forum members will be volunteering. We'd love to see you there!
POSH 2006 Designer Fundraiser Sale to Benefit the Lighthouse
Join other volunteers in this exciting sale of new and gently used designer clothing for men, women and children, accessories and home furnishings to be held Thursday, May 11 - Sunday, May 14. All proceeds benefit the Lighthouse mission of helping people overcome the challenges of vision loss.
The sale operates like a store, and volunteers will be assigned to do a variety of assignments, including hanging, carrying, organizing and packing clothing during this retail operation. It's a great opportunity for high-energy people who can stand for three hours. There are morning, afternoon and evening sessions.
Volunteer individually or be a part of a team effort for your school, corporation or organization. Call (212) 821-9406 for more information and a POSH application form.
4.20.2006
4.17.2006
April's Event
Join us April 23rd for our final Fashion Forum event of the school year!
Kymberlee Harris, a freelance PR/Marketing consultant, will be speaking to us about her career. For various companies and now as a consultant, she has worked on special events of all kinds, fundraised, advertised products, dressed celebrities, and organized exclusive trunk shows. She specializes in fashion and beauty products. Kym, who has an advanced degree in Fashion Buying and Merchandising from FIT, will tell us how she has put that degree to creative use in the field.
The event begins promptly at 3:30 at Alderton House. For more information please leave a message here or shoot us an e-mail at nyfashionforum@yahoo.com. We hope to see you all there!
Kymberlee Harris, a freelance PR/Marketing consultant, will be speaking to us about her career. For various companies and now as a consultant, she has worked on special events of all kinds, fundraised, advertised products, dressed celebrities, and organized exclusive trunk shows. She specializes in fashion and beauty products. Kym, who has an advanced degree in Fashion Buying and Merchandising from FIT, will tell us how she has put that degree to creative use in the field.
The event begins promptly at 3:30 at Alderton House. For more information please leave a message here or shoot us an e-mail at nyfashionforum@yahoo.com. We hope to see you all there!
4.13.2006
Justina McCaffrey
Our March event brought wedding gown designer Justina McCaffrey and her husband Dave, all the way from Canada to talk with us. 
Justina walked us step-by-step through the events in her life that brought her to being a well known and respected wedding gown designer today. As a beginning designer in Canada, Justina didn't feel like she was getting anywhere in her field and she barely had enough money to live on. When Justina got married, she designed her own dress - and her career took off from there. Before long she was making dresses for her friends and their friends in the attic of her apartment, with classical music blaring in the background.
Now she is an established designer, finding her inspiration in ballet and classical music, and trying to make a difference in the fashion world. Instead of using models for her runway shows, Justina hires balerinas. She finds their posture, poise and grace truly inspiring, plus the money she pays helps them survive in a career that often pays minimally.
Her dresses are often described as romantic due to the layers of lace, the mounds of beads, and intricate work put into each dress. Justina doesn't know if the dresses are romantic. "Romance is giving everything you've got, till you can't give anymore," she told those gathered, likening romance to the ballerina with her leg in the air who holds it steady and gracefully desipte the pain.
After her presentation, the group watched one of Justina's promotional videos for her Coronation collection (inspired by the Coronation Mass by Mozart) as well as her latest runway show.
Justina walked us step-by-step through the events in her life that brought her to being a well known and respected wedding gown designer today. As a beginning designer in Canada, Justina didn't feel like she was getting anywhere in her field and she barely had enough money to live on. When Justina got married, she designed her own dress - and her career took off from there. Before long she was making dresses for her friends and their friends in the attic of her apartment, with classical music blaring in the background.
Now she is an established designer, finding her inspiration in ballet and classical music, and trying to make a difference in the fashion world. Instead of using models for her runway shows, Justina hires balerinas. She finds their posture, poise and grace truly inspiring, plus the money she pays helps them survive in a career that often pays minimally.
Her dresses are often described as romantic due to the layers of lace, the mounds of beads, and intricate work put into each dress. Justina doesn't know if the dresses are romantic. "Romance is giving everything you've got, till you can't give anymore," she told those gathered, likening romance to the ballerina with her leg in the air who holds it steady and gracefully desipte the pain.
After her presentation, the group watched one of Justina's promotional videos for her Coronation collection (inspired by the Coronation Mass by Mozart) as well as her latest runway show.
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