Fashion Week Cleveland was an annual fashion industry event held in
Cleveland, Ohio
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which began in 2002
and ran 15 years until 2017.
The event was founded to promote downtown development by Donald Shingler and was run in conjunction with the
Cleveland Fashion Institute.
History
The first edition was a private event organized by the cosmetic dentist Donald Shingler.
The event is the third-largest fashion show of its kind in the
United States
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behind only
New York Fashion Week and
Los Angeles Fashion Week.
As such, this event is recognized as the showcase for emerging American fashion designers.
Designers such as MoMo Falana (designer for
Sex and the City
''Sex and the City'' is an American romantic comedy, romantic comedy-drama television series created by Darren Star for HBO, based on Sex and the City (newspaper column), the newspaper column and 1996 book by Candace Bushnell. It premiered in th ...
) and
Wendy Pepper have been featured in past events.
In the midst of the
subprime mortgage crisis
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, the 2010 edition was much lighter to adjust to the decrease in fashion spending. In 2014, Nichole Reed was named artistic director of the event.
In 2017 after a 15 year run, the Fashion Week Cleveland series of shows was discontinued in favor of the new one-night event GlamJam Fashion & Music Festival.
A few
Kent State University
Kent State University (KSU) is a Public university, public research university in Kent, Ohio, United States. The university includes seven regional campuses in Northeast Ohio located in Kent State University at Ashtabula, Ashtabula, Kent State ...
Fashion School students were also selected to display their creations.
See also
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List of fashion events
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List of fashion events in the United States
References
External links
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Culture of Cleveland
Fashion weeks in the United States
Recurring events established in 2002
2002 establishments in Ohio
Tourist attractions in Cleveland
Events in Cleveland
Annual events in Ohio
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