Annual Fashion Show: Better Than Last Year?

“This year’s Albright Fashion Show “Peace, Love & Fashion” was the best fashion show that Albright has seen in the past three years,” says Doreen Burdalski. Doreen Burdalski is Department Chair and Advisor for the fashion program. She has been at Albright for three years and has been the woman behind the scenes for the past three shows. Her creativity with the help from Club Vogue really paid off.

Usually the show is ran by Albright seniors and the professors but this year the Albright fashion department decided to collaborate with Club Vogue, which is the Albright fashion Club. Club Vogue helped tremendously by electing senior Chelsey Gross to be head of the fashion showcase. Gross and Club Vogue marketed the show by hanging posters, making t-shirts, and word of mouth. They did an excellent job promoting the show and it was confirmed by looking into the audience to see the seats were filled and people were standing throughout the campus center. It was very clear that the audience had fashion students, parents, and non-fashion students that attended. “I came because my roommate is a fashion major and she told me about all the different and unique designs that were expected to be seen this year,” says junior Sam Kelly. It seemed that many students were curious on what their fellow students had to show. “I have never been to the annual showcase before, but I kept hearing so much about it on campus and decided to come check it out,” says senior Annie McMahon. “My favorite part of the show was Maria Valentine’s dog line, I thought all of the outfits were so cute,” says senior fashion student, Kelly Burn. Kelly has seen many different designs throughout her four years here at Albright, but she has never seen anything as exclusive and creative as “Stella”, the clothing line for dogs. In the fashion show there were about a dozen dogs wearing Maria Valentine’s designs. Maria and Doreen sent out a mass e-mail to the Reading community, asking them if they would allow for their dogs to be in the fashion show, within minutes there were over ninety responses. After talking to a number of people after the show it seemed that the dogs were the main attraction, but that did not hurt the audience from admiring all the different cloths and colors of the rest of the show. Sadly not everyone could attend the show “I really wanted to be there to see what all my friends designs and since I’m a fashion major I wanted to just get an idea of what to create for next year. I just couldn’t because I had to do a paper,” says Kassie Budzinski. It was very unfortunate that some students could not attend.

Over all the show was a hit from the concept to the final production, it was amazing. It would not have been as spectacular without the music, it really brought it together. Make sure you check out live footage of the fashion show for your own experience of “Peace, Love & Fashion.”