Karneval STRUT - VCU puts on

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For the past five years VCU has held a fashion show like no other in the state. Strut, created by a committee of chosen students, is 50 percent fashion and 50 percent entertainment. The show featured student models, local designers, local talent and local stores.

For their fifth annual show, the committee came up with a dark and mysterious theme, Karneval. Creating a one of a kind atmosphere, the committee did without the traditional runway and included many sources of entertainment, such as jugglers and belly dancers. The clothing, music and amusement all gave a feeling of a freak show theme that came across exceptionally well. Stylists, Kolby Keene and Brittney Mayes, chose the featured designers as well as the clothes from stores.

"The hardest part of being a stylist was getting stores to loan clothing," Keene said. Frankie Moore, a VCU fashion design graduate, was chosen to have her clothes featured in the baby doll scene.

"My favorite part of working for Strut was having the chance to be creative and take full control of my designs," Moore stated. Model QuaShauna Smith explained how much dedication it took to bring the whole show together. "Interacting and working with all the other models, staff and the use of togetherness," was Smith's favorite reason for participating in Strut.

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The 2009 Annual Juried Fashion Show featured elegant, classic designs fused with art from junior and senior fashion design majors. This year's show, MUSE, was inspired by a variety of museums from Richmond's own Children's Museum to the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar.

Coinciding with the show's MUSE theme, two VCU fashion photography classes, consisting of photography, fashion design and fashion merchandising majors, shot their own fashion spreads. Taking inspiration from the museum of their choice, students worked in groups to organize a photo shoot. Each group was judged to have their spread featured in Ink.

The two winning groups, one from each class, were influenced the Science Museum of Virginia and Wax Museums. Shot at the Science Museum of Virginia, Midnight at the Museum created a space odyssey theme focusing on a modular pod style. On Display took inspiration from wax museums like Madame Tussauds. Taking emotion out of the models poses, the group created their mannequinthemed spread.