{"id":3992,"date":"2025-10-15T20:57:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T20:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/3992\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T20:57:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T20:57:27","slug":"local-designers-shine-at-a-very-brooklyn-fashion-show-to-support-red-hook-artists-brooklyn-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/3992\/","title":{"rendered":"Local designers shine at \u2018A Very Brooklyn Fashion Show\u2019 to support Red Hook artists \u2022 Brooklyn Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Models showcase designs by six Brooklyn-based creators during the third annual \u201cA Very Brooklyn Fashion Show\u201d at brooklynONE Productions in Industry City on Oct. 15, part of Fashion Week Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

Photo by Gabriele Holtermann<\/p>\n

Six Brooklyn-based designers showcased the heart and soul of the borough with their couture at the third annual \u201cA Very Brooklyn Fashion Show,\u201d held at brooklynONE Productions in Industry City on Oct. 15.<\/p>\n

The show, part of Fashion Week Brooklyn<\/a> (FWBK), was hosted in partnership with the Brooklyn Made store<\/a> and the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n

Curators of the three-segment event \u2014 featuring the innovative styles of Voodo F\u00e9, Ahmrii (who showcased her line at \u201cThe People\u2019s Runway\u201d<\/a> at Brooklyn Borough Hall last month), Sigal De Mayo, Scrap and Delicacies, Graffiti Fashion, and Miscellania Fashions \u2014 were Gabrielle Napolitano, director of partnerships and communications for the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce; Rick Davy, founder and director of the BK Style Foundation<\/a> (BKSF) and creative director and producer of FWBK; and Catherine Schuller, founder of Runway the Real Way.<\/p>\n

\"\"Graffiti Fashion paid homage to Brooklyn\u2019s own \u201cNotorious B.I.G.\u201d Photo by Gabriele Holtermann \"\"A model walks the runway showcasing the work by Miscellania Fashions. Photo by Gabriele Holtermann \"\"A model walks the runway showcasing the work by designer Ahmrii Lorraine. Photo by Gabriele Holtermann<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s runway carried special meaning for the creatives after a five-alarm fire<\/a> last month destroyed a large Red Hook building that housed artist studios and small businesses.<\/p>\n

Napolitano told Brooklyn Paper that a day after the fire, the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce decided all proceeds from the event would go to the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition<\/a> (BWAC), a Chamber member, to support recovery efforts.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe felt almost guilty. We were like, \u2018Oh my god, we\u2019re doing this fun show, this is kind of weird,\u2019\u201d Napolitano said. \u201cWe\u2019re supposed to help our members.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

The fashion show was a community-oriented event and an opportunity to connect with new and up-and-coming designers, Napolitano said.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the Chamber of Commerce in Brooklyn and Brooklyn Made, the [fashion show] really means to show what Brooklyn is about. It\u2019s about bringing everybody together, because that\u2019s what we\u2019re made of. It\u2019s a big grouping of communities, all coming together, like a big collage,\u201d Napolitano said.<\/p>\n

\"\"A model walks the runway showcasing the work by designer Scrap and Delicacies. Photo by Gabriele Holtermann \"\"A model walks the runway showcasing the work by designer Voodo F\u00e9Photo by Gabriele Holtermann \"\"A model walks the runway showcasing the work by designer Ahmrii Lorraine. Photo by Gabriele Holtermann<\/p>\n

Fashion designer Adeleke Sijuwade has presented his couture for the past two years at \u201cA Very Brooklyn Fashion Show.\u201d The Bedford-Stuyvesant-based designer \u2014 who styled New York City Commissioner of Cultural Affairs Laurie Cumbo, a longtime wearer of Sijuwade\u2019s designs, for the 2025 Met Gala \u2014 told the Brooklyn Paper that the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce provides valuable opportunities for independent designers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey always try to show their support,\u201d Sijuwade said. \u201cSo [the shows] gave me a chance to show my talent.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

His advice for new and emerging designers: be \u201cthe real deal,\u201d because Brooklynites don\u2019t hold back their opinions.
\n\"\"Fashion designer Adeleke Sijuwade said Brooklyn was a powerful, opinionated place, with a lot of fashion history. Photo by Gabriele Holtermann\n<\/p>\n

\u201cBrooklyn is a powerful, opinionated place, and there\u2019s a lot of history in fashion,\u201d Sijuwade said. \u201cSo when you talk about fashion, from hip hop to suit to street wear to high fashion, you name it, Brooklyn is fashion. I mean, if you have the name Brooklyn on a sweatshirt, on a hat, [or] on a bag, it\u2019s already a fashion statement, just that name alone. So you know, you got to do it justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rick Davy told Brooklyn Paper that the designers who participate in FWBK are selected for their creativity and craftsmanship.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI like creative designers,\u201d Davy said. \u201cEven if you do a suit and a tie, it should have some kind of a creative element in it. Even though you can make the suit and a tie, [when] you style it for the runway, it could be a little bit different. We want to have that kind of Brooklyn edge.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Rick Davy said he was looking for the \u201cBrooklyn edge\u201d when choosing designers. Photo by Gabriele Holtermann<\/p>\n

Davy said FWBK differs from New York Fashion Week because it provides a platform for emerging designers rather than showcasing established brands.<\/p>\n

FWBK not only mentors and features emerging Brooklyn designers but also highlights the talents of aspiring and established designers from around the world, hosting fashion events in Milan, Paris, London and Japan.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that\u2019s one of the biggest things that I think we need to try to do \u2014 mentor and teach the young designers, not just from Brooklyn, but around the world. So we do it more globally and show designers emerging from anywhere in the world or any part of the nation. As a mentor, we give them a platform to actually learn about their own craft and how they can get their product to scale, to sell.\u201d<\/p>\n

FWBK runs through Oct. 18. Visit the fashionweekbrooklyn.com<\/a> for more information about the lineup of fashion shows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Models showcase designs by six Brooklyn-based creators during the third annual \u201cA Very Brooklyn Fashion Show\u201d at brooklynONE…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[4221,4222,98,4223,100,4224,99,1242,4225,4226,4227,4228,4229,9,24,63,4230,4231,4232,4233],"class_list":["post-3992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-a-very-brooklyn-fashion-show","tag-ahmril","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-chamber-of-commerce","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-made","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-fashion","tag-fashion-designer","tag-fashion-show","tag-graffiti-fashion","tag-industry-city","tag-miscellania-fashions","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-runway","tag-scrap-and-delicacies","tag-sigal-de-mayo","tag-voodofe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}