LYDIA TURCIOS
Art Director
Multicultural weekend at SUNY Fredonia is one of the hot button topics for the year. It’s one of the few times ethnic students can embrace and share their culture with the greater body of students, and it acts as an attractive pull for incoming students here for tours of campus
BSU puts the work in to make the loudest and proudest events of the whole weekend.
The BSU Fashion Show is a labor of love weeks in the making. It’s a production of passion, dedication and commitment. The event is about BIPOC brilliance, run by the ever impressive and hardworking e-board of Black women in the BSU. It acts as a cultural medium that brings the campus community together for one night of illuminating creativity.
This was the first year in memory that had vendors present prior and during the show, allowing for student and Black-owned businesses to share their work. The vendors this year included Creations With Clare, BESTOFLUXX and Heuristic.
The Fashion Show incorporated a wide range of fashion styles designed by the models themselves, vendors and members of the production team. They ranged from “Independent Women,” multifunctional business casual for women in power, “Freak me,” an ode to Atlanta Georgia styles, and “Carnival,” a bombastic dedication to the Caribbean Carnival — just to name a few. Each one had a solid concept and presentation with kudos to the models for dressing themselves for each category.
One of the most impressive qualities in the show was the high production value of the lights, music and staging. The dynamic lighting was by far the best mood setter for the performance, with more simber serious categories being backdropped to dim cool tones while the high energy categories with a lot of momentum used bright warm tones to elevate the movement of the scene.
The BSU Fashion Show has a reputation for professionalism and the models this year do not disappoint. Each one exuded an aura of confidence with their own personal flare in their walk. The wide range of personalities and body diversity made the models a memorable set where no one outshone each other, instead complimenting their fellow models.
If this performance is what the BSU had in store while still ramping back up from two years of functioning in a pandemic, then the future of the fashion show is brighter than the stage lights.
Photo Gallery: Runway Looks
By Owen McGuire
