Funkshion: Fashion Week Miami Beach
Funkshion: Fashion Week Miami Beach will open with Harpers Bazaar MAGIA DE LA MODA Fashion Show at Paris Theatre on October 10th to celebrate its 5th anniversary.
It should be no surprise that a leading trend markets like the City of Miami and the City of Miami Beach have proven a need for a fashion week to call their own. Funkshion: Fashion Week Miami Beach presented by Lexus, will fuse music, fashion and like no other city in the world could do.
For the Spring/Summer 2008 Collections, Funkshion: Fashion Week Miami Beach will build out a state-of-the-art event space at the Paris Theatre and Hotel Setai located in the heart of Miami Beach and Miami, October 10th - 13th, 2007. The Paris Theatre is a 1940 Art Deco landmark located in the heart of the world-renowned South Beach district. The former movie palace has been meticulously restored and transformed into a state-of-the-art production facility utilized by the world’s most renowned photographers, recording artists and fashion advertisers.
Funkshion: Fashion Week Miami Beach is a four-day event (October 10th to the 13th) that provides an intelligent, innovative platform for progressive, established, and emerging designers to showcase their collections to media, celebrities, international buyers, and select style makers.
Funkshion will celebrate the energy and substance of style across classes and cultures. The shows are geared towards designer diffusion collections and innovative lifestyle brands. Designers will integrate music into their shows, many personally selecting their favorite celebrity DJs to preside over their runway spectacles Funkshion: Fashion Week Miami Beach has harnessed the curiosity and support of established and emerging talent from the international fashion and lifestyle arenas.
This year we will feature new designs by designers such as True Religion, Adriano Goldschmied, Christina Ferrari and others.
On October 13th at 9pm, music and fashion collide at Mix N Mash– the official Funkshion: Fashion Week Miami Beach Fashion Show and after party fueled by Red Bull Energy Drink. Hosted at Paris Theater, Mix N Mash is a battle of music and fashion featuring five designers from top Florida-based Art and Design Schools competing against each other in a runway show while simultaneously a DJ battle ensues between Little Louie Vega with Anane, Dj Dummy, Dj Irie and Dj Tabu. Featured designers come from International Academy of Design and Technology (Orlando), International Academy of Design and Technology (Tampa), Art Institute of Ft. Lauderdale, and Ai Miami Intl University of Art & Design. Red Bull Formula One Race car driver Vitantonio Liuzzi will open the show, adding a little more “mix” to the “mash.”
“It’s great to be here and showing spring collection. Miami really is the fashion capital, they say that it is New York, but really all the of energy is here, and all the new ideas are here”, says Russell Simmons on Fashion Week Miami Beach
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