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Austin Fashion Week Party at Idea City
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All the pre-chatter has gone silent. Austin Fashion Week is here. The Bright Lights, Idea City party at the GSD&M campus on West Sixth Street announced its arrival with predictable force.
Helen Hutka, Andrea Hernandez and Renee Schroder
Not all guests were as radically attired as the three models pictured above. Yet the painted ones set a tone. Like so many large Austin parties these days, supernumeraries played somewhat leading roles.
Dorothy Stewart and Arianna McKinney
As designed by affair planners at Clink, the courtyard of the advertising firm’s campus was opened up for a long runway flanked by rows of white chairs. Food and drink samples awaited in a fair-like village to the side. Early in the party, folks shuttled from the cool, dry interior spaces to and from the hot, damp courtyard.
Wendy Corn and Milli Starr
Many reps from the city’s Style, Nightlife, Interactive, Food and Media tribes mingled. One guest bemoaned the obvious: That even for events explicitly devoted to glamor, some Austinites refuse to dress up … even a little bit. (Once again, I did not document the deleterious.) A shame. Because it’s fun.
Cameron Lockley, Vickmay Quinn and Joe Pierce
I spent the most time with nattily attired Gerald Rich, fashion writer for the Daily Texan, who brought along a considerable photo and video crew. Also caught up with Cameron Lockely, whose Latin-themed La Sombra is bustling on Burnet Road. I introduced him to Milton Torres of Popular Hispanics and Vickmay Quinn of the Vickmay Skin and Body Spa.
Caren Morton and Laura Gamble
I was delighted to see event planner Danielle Thomas and film maker Adam Garner, who are seven months pregnant and planning a sailing adventure in the British Virgin Islands. After a couple of hours, I left for the evening’s other amusements, missing ’80s pop singer Tiffany and the runway show. I’m not worried, runway shows will pop up all through Fashion Week.
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