Peace, Love, & Fashion recap and thank you poster!!!

PL&F Designers on Seattle Times!!

Get to know some of our designers and what was behind thier inspiration!!

Peace, Love, & Fashion On Seattle Times AGAIN

Check out this great video to get a preview of the show. I am so PROUD!!

Peace, Love, & Fashion Show 2009 is a WRAP!

Lights, Camera... Catwalk.

Our models sure did stomp their way down that runway last night, phew. Then energy is still lingering with me. The music, the people, the aesthetic in general was exactly what we were going for. All of our production students were there bright and early yesterday to bring you that amazing show. Here a couple teaser photos of what was going on yesterday and last night.

Above is the showbox, empty... were setting up the scene.

Above... It's only 4 and we have line around the corner... YAY!!

And... ACTION... this is our 5 o'clock showing and as you can see it was a full house.

We have many many many more pictures to come. I would just like to give a special thanks to all of the students who made this possible. We all did an amazing job guys.

XOXO

Peace, Love & Fashion forever!

Peace, Love, & Fashion Show In the SEATTLE TIMES

Our students are getting the recognition we deserve! Today is the day everyone, our hard work will be coming to life. Right now our students are dilegently working to make this among the best fashion productions you have seen!!

To read our Seattle Times post follow this link.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/living/2008843202_zliv12fashion.html



Our first production starts at 5 and the second at 8! We hope to see you all here.

PEACE, LOVE, & SEE YOU TONIGHT FASHIONISTAS!

Cherry Street Coffee for Peace, Love, &Fashion

As one of our sponsors for Peace, Love, & Fashion 2009 Cherry Street Coffee will also be rockin' their T-Shirt Competition!! Here are the competition details and find them on FACEBOOK for more information and their registration sheet.

Cherry Street Coffee House T-Shirt Design CompetitionThis is a fun opportunity to build your portfolio, and a creative way to promote you and your design talents. We look forward to working with you!Cherry Street is a company dedicated to building community and creating neighborhoods. We are first and foremost in the business of people. Coffee and food are an integral part of our cafes, but our relationships with our customers, employees and community comes first. Being excited about cultivating community through building relationship over great food and coffee is what we’re all about.Design Criteria:Designers do not have to use our entire logo, although they must utilize the cherry, in our logo, at the minimum. Expand on the Cherry Street brand.

Communicate to our demographic and community. We encourage you to visit a number of our locations and talk with our team members for direction and insight. Submissions will range from expressive logo redesigns to unique and distinct artwork that uses our cherry as an accent. The criteria are minimal and meant to promote free thinking and creativity.

The winning design will be put into production at all five Cherry Street Coffee House locations. The artist will also receive formal recognition on our website and community pages, and receive a $100.00 Cherry Street cash card. Internship opportunities are also available!

Please find our fan page on Facebook and join our t-shirt design competition group.Submit Entries & Registration via Email:community@cherrybaba.comDeadline: June 1st 2009

VLOG for Peace, Love & Fashion 2009!!

(don't forget to mute the slideshow below)

Sponsors for Peace, Love, & Fashion 2009

More from Joan Kelly and Kelsey Lang for Peace, Love, & Fashion 2009

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HOPE YOU ENJOY

Peace, Love & stay fashionable!!!

Another Behind the Seams video from: Peace, Love, & Fashion!!!!

(Make sure you mute the music playing on the slide show below :) enjoy!! )

Are you a project runway fanatic?!!!

Well guess what.... were bringing you one step closer to the show. Blayne Walsh is one of our guest judges for the show. So come and maybe you can meet him!! Oh the life of fashionistas! We told you this show is not one to miss!!

Introducing to you, Our Fashion Show Producer

Wendy Wood

Fashion Show Producer

I have always loved Fashion, even as a small child all my attention was directed towards clothing, shopping and fashion magazines.I attended College with the intention of a Business and Marketing degree while working at Nordstrom part-time.

After a few years of retail I trained to be a Freelance Fashion Show Coordinator for Nordstrom. I went on to work as a Booking Agent at a Seattle Modeling Agency for 3 years, before returning to Nordstrom with the position of Northwest Fashion Coordinator in Seattle. Wendy produced the largest shows in the company. Working with with many designers including Donna Karan, Michael Kors, Badgley Mischka and also producing the Seattle Art Museum Designer show for 10 years, who's lineup included Chanel, YSL, Dior, Lacroix, Marc Jacobs to name a few, along with many other American, French and Italian designers.

After years of travel and producing shows she retired from Nordstrom to raise her 2 children while continuing to Produce shows independantly in Seattle. She started Wendy Wood Productions. She has produced many projects, which include the Fashion First Shows, Seattle only Green Fashion Week, The Seattle Sounders show and the Arts Institute Fashion shows.

Wendy Wood Fashion

Show Producer

A BIG PEACE LOVE AND FASHION THANK YOU GOES TO....

A big big thank you and shout out goes to our largest sponsor who has really helped make this fashion show one that you won't forget. Defenitely the best AIS has seen thus far.

Adobe

It's getting soooo close!!

Guess WHAT!!!!

More behind the Seams photo's and sneak previews

WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO KNOW.....

WHEN OUR BLOG IS BEING UPDATED????

Follow the blog. On the side of our blog if you scroll down, there is a place where you can click, follow our blog. That way you can be updated each and every time we add a new post!!!

XOXO

Meet Our Judges....

Ali Basye

Ali Basye is the editor of Seattle Bride magazine, Be. Magazine, and the author of The Long and Short of It: The Madcap History of the Skirt (HarperCollins, 2007). She writes about fashion, travel and style for magazines such as Los Angeles, Lexus, Sunset, Virtuoso Life and Seattle, and reports on West Coast style for Textile View magazine, widely regarded as the Bible of the fashion industry.

Who are the Judges?

A Fashion show cannot be a success without judges to determine whom the top designers are. The students have been working hard on not only seeking five judges for the show, but also defining what the judges will be judging and the potential awards that designers could win. It’s been a scramble to get in contact with industry people, but the students have been in contact with a lot of influential Seattleites. To name a few joining us at the judges table, we have James Zachodni from D-List Magazine, Blayne Walsh from Season 5 Project Runway, actress/model Josie Bisset, Gisela Manning, owner of Raggomyffin’s Boutique, Laura Cassidy, Editor of Seattle Metropolitan Magazine, Ali Basye, Editor of Seattle Bride Magazine, Justin Mckibben, President of Kibbn Designer Children’s store, and Andrew Burkhardt, Booking agent for Seattle Model’s Guild. We are excited to have such influential people to be judging our students garments!

Beyond finding judges students have to determine what criteria the judges will be looking for. After meeting with one of the schools textile professors the students have been able to narrow down the awards that will be given to the winning students. While the models walk the 60-foot runway our judges will be looking for the most creative ensemble, the next project runway star, best high fashion garment, most marketable, and best couture garment. The students are staying busy with the show just around the corner. Stay tuned next week to find out if the students will be able to pull off the greatest fashion show of the year. Until next time buy your tickets for Peace, Love, & Fashion.

Also: On our upcoming posts we will be giving you some bio's on some if not all of our judges so you can get to know them a little better!

Peace, Love & Stay fashionable!!

PRESS RELEASE

PEACE, LOVE, & FASHION: The Art Institute of Seattle presents the 11th annual fashion show of student design at The Showbox SODO at 8:00 PM on Thursday, March 12, 2009.

Seattle, WA – March 12, 2009 – This spring, The Art Institute of Seattle presents its 11th annual fashion show “Peace, Love, & Fashion.” The annual runway exhibition created and produced by students from the Fashion Design and Fashion Marketing programs.

The Art Institute of Seattle has created an eclectic showcase of modern style and groovy design in celebration of the psychedelic sixties. Every aspect of the production – from lighting and set design, to marketing and promotion, guest services, public relations and of course, the runway collections – have been created from concept to execution by students at the college. Joan Kelly, Executive Producer of Seattle’s trendy Fashion First show, and recognized by Seattle Magazine as one of Seattle’s “Top 25 Most Influential Women” in 2007, is back for her third year as the show’s Executive Producer, and brings her wealth of talent and experience to this year’s showcase.

“Peace, Love, & Fashion is an opportunity for students to experience the electric energy of a major runway production,” says Kelly. “Not only does the show provide them with a great opportunity to develop their design and production skills, but it also allows them a fabulous opportunity to be a part of one of Seattle’s premier fashion events.”

An exciting feature of this year’s show is the appearance by Project Runway Season 5 star Blayne Walsh. Blayne is a graduate of the Fashion Design program at The Art Institute of Seattle (2005), and part of an all-star team of fashion industry insiders charged with judging the collections in this year’s show. Joining Blayne at the judges table is actress/model Josie Bisset, with Gisela Manning, Owner of Raggomyffins’s Boutique, Laura Cassidy, Editor of Seattle Metropolitan Magazine, Ali Basye, Editor of Seattle Bride Magazine, Justin McKibben, President of Kibbn Designer Children’s Store, James Zachodni, Editor of D-List Magazine, and Andrew Burkhardt, Booking Agent for Seattle Model’s Guild.

A matinee show at 5:00 PM is available FREE to high-school students with a valid ID, and tickets for both the matinee and the 8:00 PM main show are available for $20.00 in advance through Ticketmaster at 206.628.0888, or by visiting www.ticketmaster.com. Tickets may also be purchased at the door as available for $25.00. The event also features a raffle benefitting the EDMC Foundation and scholarship opportunities for fashion students at The Art Institute of Seattle.

Peace, Love, & Fashion is sponsored in part by ADOBE, A & A Printing, Shisedo Cosmetics, Seven Salon, and D-List Magazine. For more information, or to inquire about press-passes or VIP seating opportunities, please contact Mark R. Livingston, Director of Communications at The Art Institute of Seattle at mlivingston@aii.edu, or call 206.239.2562.

Don't you want to know!!!?????!!!

Who's doing our makeup? Well our makeup is being headed by the lovely Jennifer Tran (picture coming soon) She will be using all Shiseido cosmetics for our models and believe me, you will be amazed!

Coming this week:
More sneak peaks of our possible garments; interviews from some of our behind the seams students and lots and lots of pictures of our student staff!

Next week:
Video including footage from an Interview from Joan Kelly our fashion show executive director, media bites from local radio interviews and more interviews from our students!

Looking for info your not finding?! Message us and we will get that up ASAP.
Remember...

Peace, Love, & Fashion

Behind the Seams VIDEO

Hey everyone!! I know you have been anxiously waiting to see this footage of some of our students working on the fashion show, so without further ado; here is our first video of behind the seams of Peace, Love, & Fashion!

PEACE!

Week 2: MODELS MODELS MODELS

As was promised to you. This week were sharing with you the tip of the iceburg of our hunt for the models that will rock the runway.
It's a dificult process that must be done, and only the best of the best will be able to wear our garments!! Also within our slideshow were giving you a sneak preview of a few pieces that may make the cut into our Peace, Love, & Fashion show 2009.

Still Coming:
A behind the seams video talking with some of our student. So keep your peepers out for that!!
More secret info on how we bring together an exciting event.
ONLY FOR OUR BLOGGERS:
will you see weekly sneak previews of possible garments and what VIP can be expecting in your goodie bags.
And if your good: We might give you a little taste of what to expect from our DJ's.
Thanks for stopping by and can't wait to see you at our next post!!
XOXO and remember
Peace, Love, & Fashion

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Week One: Behind the SEAMS!!!

In the weeks to come, check our blog-site for pictures, news, and updates about all the behind-the-SEAMS action at Peace, Love, & Fashion 2009.

COMING SOON: Watch our short video on the story behind the overwhelming processes of assigning front of the house and back of the house jobs for students. For starters, front of the house started to work on making judges packets, marketing ideas, finding sponsors, selling of tickets, starting a seating chart with a lists of guests, and making appointments to meet with industry professionals.

Students in charge of behind the house had to hit the ground running for time is running out for designers to submit their garments. As garments were submitted they were graded based on their design and given positive feedback.

TUNE IN NEXT WEEK FOR :

Models, models, models! Back of the house is holding a casting call for all models! Students started the grueling process of recruiting potential models to walk our 40 foot65 foot runway the day of the fashion show.

Until next week, keep an eye out for students or boutiques that are selling tickets for the second largest fashion show in Seattle. You don’t want to miss out on this event of the year! Interested in buying tickets? Message us on the blog! See you next week for our next juicy posting on the blog of Peace, Love, & Fashion.