I have always LOVED fashion shows! I love the music, the excitement, and of course the fashion! I've been in the audience and on the runway, but where I love being the most is backstage! If you enjoy fashion shows like I do, here's a little glimpse of what goes on behind the scenes to put on a 15 minute show!
The day after last year's fashion shows were over, I knew I wanted to do it again...only I knew we could do it even bigger and better! In order to do this, however, I had to enlist help. After compiling a fantastic core production team consisting of Stage Manager Angela Choy, Casting Director and Head Make Up Artist Nathalie Kim, Photographer Keoki Kim, and Stylist Leah Fukuyama, it was time to get to work! I asked fashionista Leah Fukuyama to go "shopping" for me! She pored through hundreds of tops, dresses, and bottoms to select the perfect pieces to be on the stage. After getting feedback from a small focus group, we finalized our selections and are bringing in over 200 pieces of brand new and simply beautiful pieces including beautiful tops, dresses, cardigans, jeans, leggings, necklaces, earrings, bracelets, scarves, and even a few pieces from local designer, ccdoodle!
Next, we needed talent for our show! We needed models, make up artists, hair stylists, dressers, and assistants! I am so fortunate to have Nathalie Kim in charge of all of the talent casting for this show! She has tirelessly worked to secure an amazing team of make up artists and hair stylists to make our models look even more beautiful than they already are. Nathalie then met with Dawn Larson-Lord of Larson Talent to hand select talented and beautiful models from Larson Talent and Wilhemina Models to come to a casting call. During our casting call, the models all exuded such beauty and poise, even though we had them walking on an uneven concrete sidewalk in front of many curious fans and admirers. Thank you to Dawn Larson for sending us such an unbelievable array of talent...and for making our job SOO hard! :)
After a production meeting with our Stage Director, Angela Choy, we realized that in order for this show to run smoothly and efficiently, we needed more help! We decided to create a fashion show internship team of enthusiastic and fun young women who were interested in learning more about fashion and/or modeling. I selected 6 beautiful interns; Tiffane Cheng, Meshelle Hirashima, Joyce Furuya, Sharon Ramos, Leslie Anne Nilo, and Jessica Cheng; who have a variety of interests and experiences including fashion design, event coordination, merchandising and buying, fashion blogging, and modeling. Some have already assisted with our purchasing decisions and Joyce is already starting a bliss blog entry. Meshelle will accompany us to our KHON on air live promo taping and most of the interns will be there to assist at the runway rehearsal and fittings. All of them will help backstage during the fashion shows and will have the opportunity to meet with and learn from professionals in the business. They will also have an individual and group photo session with our professional photographer, Keoki Kim.
The upcoming weeks will be hectic, but stay tuned! I hope to keep this blog updated on our very busy, often crazy, but always ALWAYS FUN journey to the Women's expo!
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| A sneak peek at some of the pieces picked for this year's fashion show! Color blocking is huge for Fall! |
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| Going through model's composite cards. |
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