The West Virginia Sustainable Fashion Show (previously known as Earth Day Fashion Forward) is an annual runway show that celebrates sustainability in the fashion industry and features the work of local and regional designers. It will return to the Lewis Theater in Lewisburg on Saturday, Apr. 26, at 3 p.m.
The show spotlights fashion that reuses and re-purposes existing fabric and clothing made from sustainable textile manufacturing, decoration, and care processes. Professional and amateur fashion designers are encouraged to enter. In addition to the runway fashion show, the event features a musical performance, a silent auction, and a feast of bubbly and bites. Designers will be awarded in several categories, and the best-dressed guest will receive a prize.
Show Director Diane Browning said, “I’m thrilled to announce we’ll have a national leader in sustainable fashion as our keynote speaker. Lynda Grose is a sustainable fashion professor at the California School of Art and co-author of the book ‘Fashion and Sustainability: Design for Change.’ She pioneered sustainable fashion standards as the designer for Esprit’s Ecollection.”
A month-long accompanying exhibit at the Greenbrier Valley Visitors Center will showcase process and performance in sustainable fashion. The West Virginia Sustainable Fashion Show is sponsored by the Greenbrier County Democratic Women’s Club as a fundraiser for their Blue Skies Ahead get-out-the-vote campaign.
Go to wvsustainablefashion.com for more details.
