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Austin Fashion Awards at The Long Center

Style writer Marques Harper has already said it all, and said it well

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Alpha Rev revs up Austin Fashion Awards

The first-ever Austin Fashion Awards ceremony could have been a disaster …

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Illson and Samantha Santoski at the Austin Fashion Awards

It was not …

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Tecla Cosgrove, Jon Hubble and Monica Burcham at the Austin Fashion Awards

Given media check-in at 4:30 p.m. and red carpet at 5 p.m. …

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Tolly Moseley at Rene Geneva at the Austin Fashion Awards

The show got a very slow start at the Long Center …

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Chelle Morison and Sierra Edgar at the Austin Fashion Awards

But how can you argue when the festivities are charged up by your favorite Austin band, Alpha Rev? … And the next band is the Soldier Thread, another in my Top 10?

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Matt and Debbie Livingston at the Austin Fashion Awards

The theatrical mechanics of the event were a little loosey-goosey …

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Penny Jackson and Kia Matthews at the Austin Fashion Awards

But hey, having put together the no-budget Austin Critics Table Awards ceremony with fellow arts journalists for almost 20 years …

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DJ Kurupt and Jen Shoemaker at the Austin Fashion Awards

I can attest that this show was pretty impressive and ambitious …

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Masae Falcon and Jake Lewis at the Austin Fashion Awards

I agree with Harper: More images needed, more transparency in the process and more respect for some of the fashion elders in town …

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Marlena Cole and Rudy Dunbar at the Austin Fashion Awards

I’m just glad nobody mocked the silver-gray-on-black embroidered Fender shirt I tried to pull off …

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Robert Edward and Lacey Austin at the Austin Fashion Awards

I’m no clothes horse. More like a clothes mule! And the few Fender-ized photos I’ve spotted of me on Facebook were instantly untagged (no fault of the shooters) …

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Sarah Freitas and Tre Dotson at the Austin Fashion Awards

Back to the show and the week: They broke ground and deserve a second iteration …

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Katie Moran an Jason Lindenschmidt at the Austin Fashion Awards

Big toasts to Matt Swinney, whose vision lifted Austin fashion up where it belongs …

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