Fashion Isn't Pretty

It’s April 13^th, 2016 at 7:26pm- my nerves are high and my adrenaline is pumping. I am about to start the event that I, along side my dream team of fashion producers, have waited all semester for. I take a deep breath and pick up the microphone. I walk down the long atrium hallway and enter the Green House for the first speech. I look to my left and see Lori, smiling as always, I look back at the audience and just before I start to talk a thought rolls through my mind…”We did it, we really did it.”

I can say with confidence, that fashion isn’t pretty. Fashion is wrong makeup on models and Band-Aids on heels.  Fashion is raw and uncensored- it’s the perfect amount of control and lost control. Fashion is rolling with the punches and 100% of the time it’s making quick decisions and just MAKING IT WORK.

The ladies and gentlemen behind the scenes of a fashion show, like the one the KCAD Fashion Show Production class put on, work really, really hard to hide the madness. Being backstage at the Unearth Fashion Show was incredible. Hair and makeup were a mess of scheduled models and missing hairdressers, designers were late and even showing up with unfinished garments- but the show must go on.   

Fashion is hard work and dedication. Fashion is bleeding fingers and white body suits. Fashion is not for the weak of mind or body. Fashion isn’t pretty, and it isn’t for everybody- KCAD Fashion Studies; do you dare?