What to Expect at North Carolina Fashion Week 2022
RALEIGH – Featuring a variety of colors, textures, and trendy fashion, the annual North Carolina Fashion Week will kick off on December 10, 5:00 – 7:00 pm EST at Hilton Raleigh North Hills.
“We’d like to give the designers an opportunity to express themselves, so we try to stay away from themes,” Jennifer Baker, the director of NC Fashion Week, explained why she did not tend to define the theme of the upcoming fashion week.
“This gives designers the chance to be creative. It gives them an opportunity to dress the models the way they want to, to live in the present as far as they’re concerned,” she said.
According to Baker, a sensational fashion week started with designers. She shared that the fashion week this year would include both new designers who are looking for platforms to be seen and repeat designers from previous seasons. A few repeat designers she named are Mark Taylor, whose models are constantly excited to wear the clothes he designed, Felicia’s House of Fashion, who works on modeling herself, and Styles by Kim Porter.
“When designers come out with amazing garments, our audience will always be on the edge of their seats,” Baker said.
The audience could also expect a convergence of East and West coast fashion at this year’s event, which Baker considered to bring more exposure to the models in North Carolina.
“It gives the models an opportunity to shoot with different photographers because, in every region, there’s a different style of fashion shooting,” Baker said. She added that this fusion of different coasts’ fashion would also help the models gain their chance to walk in Los Angeles Fashion Week and network with local agencies.
Speaking of what set NC Fashion Week apart from fashion weeks in general, Baker talked about the way they brought in the 30 models about six months in advance and how they were trained before meeting the designers.
She noted that there are no strict guidelines for a model to walk in NC Fashion Week. During the show, the audience would also be invited to get up and take a stroll down the catwalk.
“You don’t have to be 5’8, you don’t have to be double zero,” Baker said. “We’re looking for ordinary people who we can train could be a really good runway in our fashion show.”
As an organizer, Baker imagined the night showtime to be her favorite part of the fashion week. She recalled that some models could not make eye contact at their first encounter. However, she was blessed to see the growing esteem of the models and help them realize their dreams.
“North Carolina Fashion Week is really my baby,” Baker said. “Although I am the producer …, we couldn’t have a fashion week without designers and models. It is a very touching moment and something that I am very proud of.”
More information about North Carolina Fashion Week can be found here.