High style
The Fashion Design Club will display its skills to create, cut and sew above the rest at its Elements of Style show tonight in the Newcomb Hall Ballroom.
The show kicks off at 8 p.m. and will feature three sections of University student-made clothes: ready-to-wear, couture and formal wear.
"These are definitely spring and summer lines that we're showing," said Sole Salvo, a show director and one of the club's founders.
The display is the Fashion Design Club's third fashion show in the past year, though Salvo said it is by far its biggest and most professional to date.
Salvo said the ready-to-wear portion - outfits that can be worn straight off the runway - will include sundresses and "springy outfits."
In keeping with that theme, Salvo said the formal wear section will display "a lot of chiffons and pale pastels."
Not that the show is all about female fashion.
"Mostly for guys, it's going to be more subdued," Salvo explained. However, "it's not going to be khakis and blue button-downs, and no orange striped ties," she emphasized.
But for people who are interested in wearing the couture style clothes they see displayed at the show, certain pieces will be auctioned off immediately after the event in the Formal Lounge.
While funds from the auction will go toward the club's costs, money from the event also will be donated to the American Foundation for AIDS Research.
"We knew we wanted to donate something to an AIDS charity and we also wanted to raise awareness," Salvo said.
-Catherine Dunn
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