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MEET THE FEATURED DESIGNERS, INCLUDING MARIA “PONI” SILVER
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sked about the origins of her interest in fashion, this year’s Nashville Fashion Forward Fund recipient, Maria Silver said, “My interest in fashion started pretty young. My mother used to make a lot of my clothing and we would design pieces for my Barbies. It was my first design gig!” As she developed, Silver’s career really took shape on the fringes of the entertainment industry in Florida, including the drag community. “Fast track to the first art college I attended in Miami. I had a tiny studio in South Beach just four blocks from the water, and I got a job performing (I was a dancer for about fifteen) and making costumes for show girls, drag queens and musicians. I was 18 and not even allowed in these giant art deco theaters turned clubs, but I’d be behind the stage, sewing on last minute sequins and feathers for the performers! It was an amazing introduction to costume design and even more influential than the school I was going to. I was hooked!” “I continued my education at the Fashion Institute of Technology and got a job at a costume design house for Broadway shows right after graduation,” she continued. “I somehow ended up in Los Angeles playing drums in a garage rock band and touring all over for about 10 years. It happens! My band (The Ettes) relocated to Nashville and all of the sudden, here I am, a Dominican girl from Queens and Miami in the south!” “Nashville is so charming though, and at the time, it was cheap! I started hearing about fashion week here and this amazing bubbling fashion scene,” Silver explained. “It just felt right to start my brand here and I was over the moon when NFW accepted my application at let me show as an emerging designer.
It’s pretty special to have the support of NFW and the fashion community. There’s so much talent just within miles of each other.” Silver has built her brand out of Nashville, and has now been given NFW’s support for her “Fashion Forward” stylings. “BBMS is a women’s contemporary street wear brand that incorporates a lot of my upbringing including my musical and art influences,” she said, describing her brand Black by Maria Silver. “It’s part urban, part island. A bit androgynous with random bursts of femininity. It’s disco meets hip hop meets garage rock. I always want the person to feel comfort without losing edge and from my touring years, it’s important to me that the pieces to be travel friendly.” “The collection showing at fashion week is influenced by my mothers’ move to the states. She moved to New York City in 1973 from the mountains of the Dominican Republic. I just think about the vast difference in culture, air, style, earth—EVERYTHING that she experienced making that transition. It’s definitely my most colorful collection to date.” For more on Maria Silver and her brand, check out her social media at: • Website: www.blackbymariasilver.com • Facebook: /blackbymariasilver • Twitter: @ponisilver • Instagram: @blackbymariasilver • LinkedIn: Maria Del Carmen Silver
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How did you become interested in fashion? Who are some of your inspirations and mentors?
How would you describe your style? How does it resonate with your gay clients?
From an early age, I always followed the My style would be an English eccentric latest trends in music and fashion. Each disco punk. I like to wear pieces that stand genre had a matching uniform, so I started out and are different to what everyone else with Punk, then went to Mod, and even wear. I should have called my label Peacock touched upon New Romantic. Vivienne really. I do wear a lot of black during the Westwood made a movement a business day but will mix it with metallic footwear, with her Punk inspired clothing, and I took just something to lift the outfit. Evening it’s inspiration from that. all about the sequin! I had worked in my dad’s scrap yard I don’t differentiate between gay until age 26, but decided I wanted a more and non-gay clients: it’s just the LGBT fashionable career. I started styling in the community knows how to have fun and UK and have been doing that 17 years dress up for a party! My men’s sequin now. I made the transition to design two jackets are for the more confident person, years ago when we moved our store from and the gay men I know are definitely the New York. It gave me more time to think more confident kind! about putting together collections, as I had always been making individual pieces for my styling clients. The first sequin fabric I bought was at Textile Fabrics here in Nashville, and I have been in the sequin world ever since! Nashville Fashion Week gave me the push to actually get on a runway. O U T A N D A B O U T N A S H V I L L E .CO M MARCH 2018
Who are some Nashville-based fashion and entertainment leaders who have been influential in your work? Connie Cathcart-Richardson! NFW has always been a great help with local knowledge. She’s a proper Southern lady, and I love her diplomacy. For more on Andrew Clancey and his brand, check out his social media at: • Website: www.shopaoi.com • Facebook: /anyoldironnashville • Twitter: @anyoldironusa • Instagram: @anyoldiron
CAITLIN STOLLEY LILY GUILDER DESIGN How did you become interested in fashion? Who are some of your inspirations and mentors? They say that whatever you want to be when you are seven or eight years old is your heart’s true vocation. I developed a fashion magazine and catalog at this age called “Radical Magazine”! A year later I rebranded to call it “Our Style,” with a logo that had a little pink bow! My Granma Lillie taught me how to hand sew, but aside from always loving to play dress up, I forgot all about that as moved on… I studied theatre, art, and dance at Northwestern University, where I started costume designing for plays and music videos. These projects taught me to design and sew on the fly: in each project, I would have $200 to create 25 costumes according to the director’s vision and the character’s personality and maybe three weeks to do it on top of my course work. I did 2-3 of these projects every 10 weeks. My senior year I was given the honor of designing a Main stage production, which was “Footloose,” that had 300 costumes in it. After graduation, I moved to New York City to work on Law & Order, but in my spare time I went to see a band called The String Cheese Incident play all over the country. I would make my own little sparkly outfits to wear at these shows. People started asking me to make them clothing, and Lily Guilder was born. My mom pulled out those old hand drawn magazines after I started making clothing as an adult. Since I did not actually go to fashion school, I studied the biographies and work of the greats. I’ve been inspired by Coco Chanel, Yves St Laurent, Alexander McQueen, and Roberto Cavalli.
character and bright color of his work. I love the spirit of creative collaboration in Nashville. I frequently dress local musicians for stage and photoshoots.
Have you worked with LGBT community clients, and how does that fit with your work? Many of my ready to wear clothing styles can be worn fluidly by any gender, and the bulk of my business is custom design commissions. In the last year, I have helped some trans friends find their fashion voice, in a safe space, by working one-on-one to create some looks. Coming from a theatre and dance background, I have been working with and dressing bodies that move. No matter which way these bodies identify themselves, it is my mission to make sure they move with ease and confidence. When people put on a Lily Guilder garment, they automatically stand up taller and smile, it’s why I do this. For more on Caitlin Stolley and her brand, check out her social media at: • Website: lilyguilderdesign.com • Instagram: @lilyguilder • Facebook: /lilyguilder • Twitter: @thelilyguilder
How would you describe your style? If you crossed a lion with a peacock and they got dressed up to go to a Great Gatsby party at a discotheque on Planet Barbarella, that is Lily Guilder. (Have you ever heard of Burning Man?) Lily Guilder Design is for anyone who wishes to channel their inner Rock Star/Glamour Queen/Superhero/Dapper Dude/ Iconoclastic self. The collection is comprised of limited-edition, ready-to-wear, and one-of-a-kind/custom-designed garments all created in Nashville. Designer Caitlin Stolley believes in the transformative power of clothing and uses fabric texture, layering and a variety of embellishment techniques to create garments with enhanced dimension, vibration, and danceability, each piece sprinkled with magic.
Who are some Nashville-based fashion leaders who have been influential in your work? My Mom sent me an article about Manuel when I started designing coats after my first Burning Man event in 2004. I admire the
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LESLIE STEVENS OLA MAI How did you become interested in fashion? Who are some of your inspirations and mentors? My greatest influences are some of the women in my family—my grandmother and my great grandmother. My grandmother on my father’s side, Kathleen Rose, created clothes for utilitarian purposes, like work, everyday life, and church. My greatgrandmother and my line’s namesake, Ola Mai, created clothes for special occasions, like the square dances she would take me to every Friday night. As I child I had great affection for the glamour of Hollywood and rock and roll. I can remember wrapping myself in some pink shinny fabric, most likely a curtain, playing dress-up, even holding a vase of faux flowers. I wish I could remember what award I was pretending I had won. My influences are contrasting—one from a utilitarian world of design learned on a family farm in the Midwest, mixed with sewing square dancing dresses in Nashville. I’ve always been enchanted by the sparkle of the performer—my hope for my clothes is they have a sense of ease with an undeniable uniqueness. My style varies but I like to use these words to describe it: Ethereal, delicate, graceful, feminine, unexpected, easy, classic, shimmering, pastel, psychedelic, dreamscape, chic, mysterious, functional, luminescent, and of course sparkly!
Who are some Nashville-based fashion and entertainment leaders who have been influential in your work? I’ve been lucky enough to work for some badass fashion leaders. Most recently I worked for Karen Elson. Through Karen, I was able to visit all the fashion capitals and access events that I had only dreamed of. These amazing experiences and travels have had a life-altering influence on me, and greatly shaped the way I see the fashion world.
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My first big fashion job was working with fashion stylist Tiffany Gifford. She styles some of country music’s greatest entertainers, like Miranda Lambert and Shania Twain. I learned about the entertainment side of fashion. I’ve carried that through with my own relationship with the local music scene. Whether I collaborate designing stage wear or help with creative direction on a music video, I thrive on helping artists shape their vision through fashion. Lastly, I have to mention my friendship with Marcia Masulla, one of the Nashville
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One of this year’s featured guests at Nashville Fashion Week (NFW) is fashion legend Fern Mallis, who worked tirelessly to found and champion the event now known as New York Fashion Week! Since then, she has also served as an inspiration and mentor to local Fashion Week events around the world, including NFW. Fern was kind enough to sit down for a chat with O&AN to discuss the evolution of New York Fashion Week and how she’s taken the knowledge and experienced gleaned from her work to promote fashion in ever more local events.
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Can you tell us a little about your role in founding the event originally called Seventh on Sixth, which we now know as New York Fashion Week? Do you have a couple of hours?
Maybe just the Cliff’s Notes version? Well, for nearly twenty years, I headed up Fashion Week in New York. But it all started back in the early 90s, when I was selected to be the director of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, the CFDA. Just before I took that position—I had already been selected and agreed I’d start in a couple of weeks—it was the industry’s Market Week, which was essentially Fashion Week... But there were 50 fashion shows in 50 different locations, and nobody spoke to each other and there was no central voice or anything. One could be uptown, downtown, you know, and getting from one to the other with no organization? During that week, there was a show in a loft space in the Chelsea area that the designer Michael Kors had, and when they put the bass music on very loud, which is typical at a fashion show and if anything’s not nailed down, it kind of shakes. And at that show, the ceiling started to shake and come down on the runway. There was plaster falling on supermodels—Naomi and Cindy and Linda and all the big one name wonders… But plaster also landed in the laps of very important editors in the front row, from The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune… They all wrote the next day that “We live for fashion, we don’t want to die for it…” It was a big red flag that this was crazy, and then it started to point at all of the unsafe and scary situations of people putting themselves into to see fashion shows. Climbing the stairs to funky little lofty spaces that had one exit, crowded hallways and
stairways and blocked exit routes… Isaac Mizrahi had a show the next season where the power blew, leaving 1,200 people sitting in pitch black waiting for a show to start. So, it just became a real issue and when the ceiling collapsed at Kors, I said, “I think that my job description just changed.” It became a mission for the Council, which was … to find safe, sound, secure places and to modernize, centralize, and organize the American fashion shows. And you know, about a year-and-a-half later, we had a temporary organization, with shows in the district close to the garment center. Then in 1993, we had the first shows in tents in Bryant Park and then the New York Public Library and called it Seventh on Sixth, because it was Seventh Avenue moving to Sixth Avenue, and it became the organized platform for American designers to show their collections. It created a whole series of benefits and systems and cost savings for everybody, and that reached the world’s buyers and the world’s media with a unified voice, and it changed the game. It was a game changer. It succeeded beyond anybody’s wildest imagination.
come to the tents and kind of study it and take copious notes and pictures and go back to their towns and call up the car dealerships and the local hotels… You need money to do this and sponsorships were very much a part of the project in New York and everywhere else in the world. Boston, Miami, Las Angeles … the bigger regional weeks were pivotal to inspiring others. Nashville is now I guess nearly a decade old... I think Charleston is maybe in its 12th year maybe for Charleston Fashion Week... I know Omaha last year said it was celebrating its 10th anniversary. Honestly, I hadn’t heard of that until I was invited there in its 10th year! So, they are all over the place. And I am a huge fan of these regional fashion weeks. I think that there’s a lot of energy there, there’s a lot of love, and at the end of the day, there’s often talent.
What impact do you see these events having on local fashion? And do you think they impact the broader fashion scene?
Well, I think locally they all have impact in their various cities. I’ve been to many of these cities, and when we talked to the audience, my favorite thing to ask everybody is, “How many people bought new clothes to come to fashion week this week?” Every hand goes up. To me, that’s an indicator that the week is having an impact locally on the economy Well, you know, it’s been a while. We and on people’s shopping and on buying succeeded in New York, taking our cues in new things. I mean, at the end of the day, many ways from Paris, Milan, and London, every fashion week is about trying to get learning and avoiding some of the problems people to put their hand in their pocket, take there. It then became a very global fashion out their credit card, and buy something. scene: you name a country that has a fashion That’s the bottom line. You know? If nobody week in it now. IMG, which after 10 years in goes shopping and nobody buys any of Bryant Park, bought the Fashion Week entity these things, then it’s a vanity exercise. from the CFDA, and then we began doing Their biggest impact on fashion many, many Fashion Weeks and we were out more broadly is that they are opening in the world. It became almost a franchise a door for people to learn how to put really. But hate even using that word. a collection together, how to see their I think after those ten, fifteen years, a vision executed on a runway, how to see lot of the smaller regional markets started to say, “Oh, why don’t we do something with what they’re doing put together with @OUTANDABOUTNASH 5 Y E A from R S O F hair LG B Tand N E Wmakeup S the talent in our city?” And everybody would professional 1help
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and styling and first-class production values. Many local designers in these markets would never be able to do on their own. So, these fashion week provide that and give them that confidence and that platform to see their work out there. Honestly, one never, ever knows where the talent comes from. I’ve always said—my entire career in fashion—that editors and journalists and retailers are kind of like truffle-sniffing pigs. They need to find the new fashion. And when there’s talent somewhere, it surfaces. Now more than ever, the opportunity is there because the social media. It didn’t used to be the case. So, now, everybody has images out there on Instagram and on Twitter and on Facebook, and people who are talented, somebody might see that and say, “Oh, I like this. Who is this person? Who is this designer in Nashville?” You know? “Let’s go see what’s going on.” Or, “Let me follow up on them.”
your sensibility and who you could really learn from and giving them sage advice that will help them in their career and help open doors for them. When I see somebody talented somewhere, I do that all the time. And I look forward to doing that in Nashville. I know that there’s great talent in Nashville and I’ve gone around and seen that. I haven’t been there for a couple of years. So, I’m not right up onto who’s doing what, but you know, I do remember the first season I came down there meeting … Elizabeth Susan, who had a very small space. We went to see her because, I mean, some of the gals involved with the week were wearing her clothes and I was like, “Oh, where’s that from? I like that, I could wear that!” And you know, that’s how that happens… Now her business is extraordinary. I follow her on Instagram and see all the stuff and it’s great. I love seeing that kind of success happen.
I know, since very early on, you’ve had relationships with Nashville Fashion Week. How have you been involved in the past and what is going to be your involvement this year?
Are you sort of a featured speaker at any of the events or are you going to be judging this year?
Well, I mean, I come, and I help judge and jury where necessary. I usually come with my mentor hat on and talk to all the designers… Fashion Week usually sets up an opportunity to have that discussion with everybody and answer lots of questions about what they’re doing and talk to them each about their collections and give just my sage old advice from being around this business for a really, really long time. I try to talk to them about what they are doing and what they’re doing well and where they might be able to improve on something. You know, so it’s really more of that, and there’s ... it’s hard for me to say it, but … there’s a certain credibility factor of me being there, giving them that information and a kind of “Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval” to Fashion Week. I know when I come to some of these markets, everybody’s like, “Is that okay? Is the lighting okay? Is everything okay? Do you approve?” I’m like, “Of course I do,” you know? And if I don’t, I take somebody by the side and say something, like, “You really should put up some extensions over here. The lighting could be better here.” You know? Or, “Hey, guys, start the show. This is running way too late!” Whatever. I am certainly not one who’s ever shied away from sharing my opinion and hopefully in a very constructive and meaningful way to help them all realize their dreams. You know, so many of these young kids do one show and get some publicity, and they think they’re ready to run their own business, and they’re not. It’s an insane industry to try and succeed in. So, it’s like, O U Tshould A N D A Breally O U T Nwork A S H Vfor ILLE .CO M MARCH okay, you somebody like 2018 X, Y, Z who really has
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Well, just in terms of concluding, what would you say to people locally about supporting their local fashion industries? I think that that’s critical. You know? I think that there’s a very healthy fashion community in Nashville, just like its music scene, its food scene. I mean, clearly, Nashville is a whole new place than it was 10 years ago. Lots of new buildings, new growth, a lot of people moving there… I know some New York editors who have moved back to be there and have a presence. Nashville’s one of those really, really hot, talked about cities in America that people want to be in... And I think it’s important. I think more and more people are looking to do something different, and, I mean, the least fashionable thing in the world is when everybody’s wearing the same brand and the same labels. For me, it’s important to find your own style and that’s what makes fashion fashion. And I think there is that opportunity in these cities to wear some of the local designers and champion them and be excited about it, and carry that banner. I’m all for it. I’m really looking forward to coming. I miss being in Nashville. Check with me at the end of the week and I’ll say, you know, “This is a star. This person I think really has potential and this designer, let’s see where we can help her or him get ahead and do this thing!”
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Handmade in Nashville, Tennessee, Eileen Kelly is dedicated to crafting custom clothing for musicians as well as men and women with bold fashion taste. With a specialized background in western and stage wear from working alongside legendary local designer, Manuel, attention to detail is brought to every garment that is cut and sewn by the designer, Kelly Eileen Nieser. With whimsy, embellishments, and elements of surprise throughout her designs, Kelly strives to elevate the status quo for how musicians dress. “Launching Eileen Kelly at Nashville Fashion Week has been a tremendous dream of mine. I feel so incredibly honored to be recognized as one of Nashville’s Emerging Designers, and cannot wait to finally bring my voice and sparkle to the runway!!”
Laura Citron is a fashion label celebrating maximalist glamour, and based in Nashville, TN since 2016. Laura combines her degree from the Fashion Institute of Technology (NYC) in Apparel Merchandising with years of working with New York’s top luxury vintage apparel retailers. In 2014, she moved to Nashville and opened her own edited vintage clothing boutique, OPIUMvintage. Connecting the past and the present, Laura has now created a label that evokes the fun and eclectic whimsy of decades past with a reimagined vision for a modern world! “I am over the moon to show my premier runway collection at Nashville Fashion Week 2018! The unique and supportive community in this city is what inspired me to create this collection. I hope you have as much fun watching it as I did creating it!”
Barbara Bultman, Saint Louis native, earned her BFA at Lindenwood University in 2015, also Couture Designer of the Year 2016 at PHXFW. Barbara Bultman Designs, established in 2015, is an independent fashion brand that is made in house. Her designs are structural, detail-oriented, edgy, a modern day bohemian twist of style. She uses a mixed media of fabrics and unconventional materials to create one of a kind textures and prints. It’s a revolutionary crossroad of style for the fearless woman. Dare II Wear “As a designer who is inspired by music, I am extremely excited to be apart of Nashville Fashion Week; to be apart of such an amazing and talented group of designers is a true honor!” #WHYNFW
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Amanda Casarez, California native, BS from University of Hawaii. Alum of inaugural 2015 class for DC Fashion Incubator at Macy’s, established her DC based brand as designer-in-residence. Casarez, finalist for Lexus CFW and PHXFW emerging designer of the year. A design philosophy based on duality of hard lines and delicate details; a bold-minimalistic and masculine approach to clothing. Casarez’ design aesthetic is linear, with bold color palettes, and affinity for natural fabrics. Classic cool… With a tomboyish flare. “I am thrilled and honored to be part of Nashville Fashion Week.”
Ariel INC has been featured in countless fashion shows such as: Walk Fashion Show (NYFW ’17), Miss-Sis Magazine, The Birmingham Times, Magic City Fashion Week (Birmingham, AL), and CBS46/ WGCL-TV Atlanta. She has also worked with rappers: Young Scooter, Waka Flocka Flame, and Future. Ariel INC has done programs for the youth such as charity fashion shows, free fashion design classes for young girls, prom dress giveaways, and mentoring programs to develop their talents and overall goals. Super excited to be part of a wonderful line up of designers from Nashville! #NFW18
Touring full time in rock and country for the past 13 years, Justin Mark Richards decided to bring stage wardrobe to his everyday life. Making unique, one of a kind, pieces influenced by life, art, and rock n’ roll. JMR has been seen on artists and actors such as Karen Fairchild (Little Big Town), Devin Dawson, Lucy Hale, and more. Wearing something only you have can truly express who you are inside and out. Life doesn’t have to be so serious all the time. “I can’t wait to show everyone what I’ve got and finally be a part of the Nashville fashion community. What an amazing opportunity! A dream!”
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Yellowcake is the signature line of women’s outerwear and accessories designed & crafted by artist and Project Runway alumna Valerie Mayen. Her garments are handmade in the United States with a keen attention to detail, superior construction, and timeless design. “The Yellowcake team and I (Valerie Mayen) are thrilled and honored to accept the invitation to participate in Nashville fashion week in April of 2018.”
A Tennessee native currently based in New York, Steele is a textile designer and fiber artist whose collections fuse striking prints, intricate embellishments, and bold color combinations into an exciting juxtaposition of punk and polish. “I’m thrilled and honored to be invited back to showcase in 2018. It has been an absolute pleasure to work with the sharp and supportive team at Nashville Fashion Week. I can’t wait!”
Andrew Gallivan is a clothing brand based in Nashville and Brooklyn, and provides women’s ready-to-wear and custom garments for men and women. Andrew Gallivan produces American made clothing of quality materials, including recycled and deadstock fabrics to reduce carbon footprint. The ready to wear line offers women versatile and fashion forward garments that last multiple seasons. “I’m so excited to participate in my second NFW and be a part of the fashion movement happening in Nashville.”
SPLASHED BY DKG Splashed by DKG is a fashion brand that exists to make everyday look and feel like a runway. We firmly believe that when you look your best, you feel and can perform at your best. Based in Birmingham, AL and born from the minds of a denimdesigning duo, Splashed by DKG is a luxury streetwear brand that combines handmade denim staples with provocative textiles to make a Splash. “We are honored to be invited back to one of the BEST Fashion Weeks in the South! NFW is family and we hope you’re ready to be Splashed.... again!”
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EMBODYING A SPIRIT OF DIVERSITY THROUGH FASHION NFW’S FOUNDERS DISCUSS PRIDE AND DIVERSITY Now in its 8th year, Nashville Fashion Week (NFW) has a lot to be proud of, including its commitment to diversity. It’s no surprise, but the Nashville LGBT community and its allies have a lot of ties to NFW. In addition to Amos Gott, who has been in charge of gala planning for years and Vincent Dreff who currently serves on the NFW Advisory Council, past sponsors and friends of the event have included Arnold Myint, Margaret Ellis, and Ron Snitker. Mike Smith, past publisher of Southcomm, is one of the original cofounders of Nashville Fashion Week. And, this year, Brian Barry is a co-host of NFW’s first Men’s Style Event (3/27 at 505 Nashville) with Tim Ozgener. O&AN asked two of NFW’s founders, Marcia Masulla and Connie Cathcart-Richardson to discuss the achievements of NFW and its commitment to diversity.
What are you most proud of about what NFW has accomplished? MASULLA: I am most proud that Nashville Fashion Week is a volunteer led, produced and supported organization that has been unwavering with our mission to elevate and be a platform for the Nashville fashion community. Our initial footprint was small back in 2010, but we have since grown to serve as a viable professional resource and supportive anchor in the region for both the fashion and creative communities. And it has certainly been an adventurous pursuit that has involved blood, sweat and tears .... All three have legitimately happened time and again. To be a piece of the fabric of the journey for so many incredibly talented and hardworking individuals, though, is an absolute honor.
CATHCART-RICHARDSON: Nashville Fashion Week is about empowering people—designers, models, stylists, photographers, volunteers—to be the best that they can be by giving them an opportunity to do their thing with a professional platform for exposure. We have had so many proud moments over the past eight years, but the ones that will forever be embedded in my heart are the memories we share right before show time. There is nothing like the excitement of designers as they watch their collection come alive or holding a young model’s quivering arm and encouraging them as they prepare to hit the runway for the first time. Those are special bonding moments that are just as exciting the 100th time as it was the first. NFW has been a launch pad for our creative community and we cherish these memories as we continue to cheer them on wherever life leads. For some NFW is a confidence boost. For others, it has led to national and international opportunities. Giving our fashion community an opportunity to shine is what drives us year after year.
How would you describe NFW’S commitment to diversity, and how has it developed over time? MASULLA: If you take a look at an old photo of the six NFW co-founders, we were all diverse in our own right and that has not been lost to Connie and I, eight years later. I can recall being a part of team for another fashion event (which was around six months before the first NFW planning meeting) when one of the other organizers made a big scene in front of everyone about not casting a transgender model and that
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FIND YOUR did not fly with me. So yeah, I spoke up and stepped out and said that this model was the most qualified and had the best runway strut in the room. (Still does.) Fast forward to now, Dylan has worked extremely hard through the years and just walked in Christian Siriano’s (who also showed a runway collection during our inaugural NFW in 2010 at a historically African American church in East Nashville, mind you) 10th Anniversary’s show at New York Fashion Week ... that’s just one example of the many victories that we have been a small part of. The reality is that we, along with the fashion industry as a whole, still have a lot more work to do in the areas of inclusiveness and diversity. However, let me be clear, Nashville Fashion Week doesn’t view this as a trending topic and have been committed since our inception. We can and WILL do better.
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CATHCART-RICHARDSON: People are our most valuable asset and central to #whynfw. From the very beginning it was important to us that Nashville Fashion Week be for everyone, not just people from one side of town or the other. We set out with inclusion and collaboration as part of our mission. As our community has become more diverse, we have made a commitment to being even more intentional about cultivating and sustaining our colorful crowd filled with all ages, ethnicities, sexual orientation, beliefs, backgrounds and levels of physical ability by providing a wide variety of creative programming with a diverse lineup in accessible venues. It’s not always easy to do, but we really do try. It’s more important than ever that we show inclusivity within our community.
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MODEL DYLAN STEPHENS DEFIES GENDER LOCAL MODEL’S STRIKING LOOK STIRS INTEREST Producer, musician and model Dylan Stephens, who is represented by AMAX Talent, a longstanding sponsor of NFW, has lived in Nashville, Manhattan, and Los Angeles— but finds himself beyond content living “out of a suitcase” welcoming new adventures. The fashion and music industry is buzzing about Dylan Stephens who identifies as non-binary. Dylan’s striking looks inspired an immediate evolution from behind the runway to in-front-of-the-lens. He is shattering gender barriers and highlights a sexual identity transcend gender. Dylan is the star of a Marc Jacobs Collection Campaign, photographed by David Sims, alongside other talent
including Golden Globe nominee Christina Ricci. Dylan was also the star of last year’s Marc by Marc #CastMeMarc campaign. Recently, Dylan walked for Christian Soriano’s 10th anniversary at New York Fashion week. Dylan has a deep love and passion for music, fashion, and creating a lifestyle that reflects his authentic self. He loves spending time with his mother and best friend, Gina, and is a role model supporting varied causes for youth. Dylan’s goal is to make certain young people of all types have a sanctuary on and offline to discover and figure themselves out.
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“We are delighted to showcase Nashville’s leading designers with new designers discovered through our emerging designer application process,” said NFW managing partners/ co-founders Connie Cathcart-Richardson and Marcia Masulla. “The quality and number of emerging designer applications we receive continues to grow each year as does the community support for our local designers. It’s so rewarding to watch these designers grow from year to year.” Kicking off the “season” of Fashion Week, supporters of the event got to mix and mingle with the evening’s honorees and NFW organizers. As more NFW events are announced, look for your opportunity to join in the festivities!
PHOTOS: CODY STALLINGS
kickoff party highlighted local and emerging designers
This year’s Nashville Fashion Week (NFW) Kickoff Party was held at the Noelle Hotel. It was there that the winner of this year’s Nashville Fashion Forward Fund, Maria Silver, as well as featured local and emerging designers—profiled in this issue—were announced.
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