Merchandising Inc Fashion Show

I have been gone for a minute but I'm back again! This past weekend has been a flood of events! Lets start with the fashion show put on by an organization I'm a member of, Merchandising Inc. The spring show was this past Saturday and was a major success!!!

This season I wanted to be apart of the action so I joined the fashion show committee. Along with 5 other members and the 2 producers in charge, we put together the show,  from promotions and visuals for the show, to clothing catastrophes we rallied as a team, weekly to produce this baby! Props go out to Emily and Shala, the fashion show producers, who REALLY made the show a success through countless hours of hard work before the show and motivating everyone to have great faith in their cause!!

Speaking of clothing catastrophes, let me slightly elaborate on the matter: one store backed out completely of letting us borrow clothing, a second limited the number of items we could take (no pun intended, the store was The Limited), and a third completely put a damper on our plans the NIGHT before the show not allowing us to take all the clothes originally picked out! Yeah the producers had their work cut out for them. Luckily stylists, models, and members rallied together to bring in tons of clothes from their own closets for the show. When in a crisis the UNT army stands together!

The day of the show was a long one, about 8 hours, but totally worth it! Seeing the the visuals we made come together for our "Enchanted Forest" theme was like magic. As the models slowly got their hair and makeup done and practiced their walks during the rehearsal, there was adrenaline in my veins! The lineup for curtain call came and ten minutes after the hour I sneaked from backstage to tell the DJ to drop the beat, and it was that runway was on fire!

The theme of the show was A Twisted Tale, a 2013 twisted on classic tales such as The Frog Prince, Alice in Wonderland, and Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves. The money raised from the show goes to fund events/activities  held by the Merchandising Inc. Organization.

Enough with the talking I will just show you the pics! Not all are mine; model pics courtesy of Ryan Cheval.

The closing number: Villainess with a dagger through the heart!

 Me and one of the stylists T'iundra after the show