There will be more than 100 looks hitting the runway in Temple Live’s Great Hall during the finale show of the local fashion movement called ICT Fashion Tour.
A local artist who goes by one name, Anri, started the ICT Fashion Tour last year as an effort to showcase local designers, ranging from a high schooler who hasn’t sewn anything on this level to experienced individuals.
Anri said that the idea for the movement came out of boredom in the art community. Fashion is art that is displayed on the body.
Smaller shows were held at The Sewing Center in west Wichita, the Wichita State campus, the CityArts in Old Town, and even the Happy Acres Farm in Augusta.
A Juneteenth fashion show at CityArts featured youth who had participated in Mulberry Art Gallery’s Meet the Challenge ICT program that provides one-on-one mentoring among professional artists and under-resourced youth to expose the youth to career opportunities in art and entrepreneurship.
The movement’s official finale show for the season is at Temple Live in downtown Wichita, but the designers aren’t hanging up their collections quite yet.
Anri said some of the designers will participate in a show at the Art Museum in September and a ball-like event at the Chain Link Gallery in October.
The finale show of the ICT Fashion Tour will feature novice and established designers, including newcomer Lynn Vuong, and one of her former students who took sewing classes at the studio, Maria Egger of Milkweed Clothier, Danny Sun of Dummy Apparel Co.
Oiha Potapenko, a Ukrainian couture bridal designer living in Kansas City, will be featured in the show.
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The finale will be an opportunity to see how designers have progressed in their work, Anri said. Stabler and Gulick had experience at participating on a famous stage like New York Fashion Week, but many of the designers didn’t have previous experience showcasing their works on a runway.
Some of the show’s designers as well as other local artists and designers will be selling their works at the vendor fair.
The next season of pop-up fashion shows is open to designers.
What is the final show of the ICT Fashion Tour?
There is a time when it is 5-9 p.m. The doors will open at 4.
The former Scottish Rite Temple is located at 331 E. 1st St.
Admission is free.
The ictfashiontour.com has more information.