Wednesday, October 14 BAKERS PRESENTS PROJECT: DESIGN! Project Runway star, Jillian Lewis hosts Bakers Project: Design! See the top 6 Project: Design! online designer search finalists compete for the $30,000 prize package.
Project Runway's Jillian Lewis leads a panel of judges to choose the $30,000 grand-prize winner from among the top 6 Bakers Project: Design! finalists as they compete on the Saint Louis Fashion Week runway. Experience Jillian's latest runway collection plus a pre-show, multi-media, interactive art, music and dance installation by the SCOSAG in the Budweiser Select Fashion Week Lounge.
VIP Reception: 6pm, Doors: 7pm
Thursday, October 15 BAKERS PRESENTS CURRENT Byrd Style Lounge, Ivy Hill Boutique, Mary Jane's & Valerie Mills Four of St. Louis' top boutiques present a sneak peek of Fall's most sought after designer collections. Byrd Style Lounge, Ivy Hill, Mary Jane's and Valerie Mills hit the runway with looks from Geren Ford, Jenny Han, Fornarina, Tory Burch and more.
VIP Reception: 6pm, Doors: 7pm
Friday, October 16 (day event) STL CRAFT MAFIA PRESENTS INDIE UNDERGROUND: DESIGNER + HANDMADE MARKET Shop Saint Louis Fashion Week designers and the St. Louis Craft Mafia's top handmade labels. Meet Fashion Week designers, shop sample sales, trunk shows, jewelry designers and indie artists all under one roof at Lumière Place.
Market: 11am - 5pm HoteLumière
Friday, October 16 (day event) DIYSTYLE PRESENTS LAUNCH DIYStyle, the group that inspires "Design-It-Yourself Style and Fashion", presents a runway show featuring their own DIYStyle collection, and four young designers showing their fashion collections for the very first time: Conjetta by Connie Bourgeois, Allyce King Designs by Allyce King, ML by Maggie Laskowitz and Stiles by Courtney Stiles. Each designer will also feature a "Rejectamenta" gown in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness.
Runway Shows: 1pm
Friday, October 16 BAKERS PRESENTS EMERGE Bolongaro Trevor, TRIM + Love Brigade Hot off London Fashion Week, Bolongaro Trevor returns to Saint Louis Fashion Week for the U.S. debut of their Spring 2010 Collection alongside a full-throttle, high-velocity showing by high-end streetwear brand, TRIM and NY-based, indie-music-scene darlings, Love Brigade.
VIP Reception: 6pm, Doors: 7pm
Saturday, October 17 (day event) STL CRAFT MAFIA PRESENTS INDIE UNDERGROUND: DESIGNER + HANDMADE MARKET Shop Saint Louis Fashion Week designers and the St. Louis Craft Mafia's top handmade labels. Meet Fashion Week designers, shop sample sales, trunk shows, jewelry designers and indie artists all under one roof at Lumière Place.
Market: 11am - 5pm HoteLumière
Saturday, October 17 (day event) FGI PRESENTS EVOLVE Fashion Group International presents a runway fashion show featuring St. Louis' Rising Star designers. View the latest collections by Bakers Project:Design! FW09 winner, The Exquisite Corpse by Michael Drummond and FW09 finalists, Laura Kathleen by Laura Kathleen Planck and MICHAEL SHEAD EST. 1987 by Michael Shead; alongside Fashion Week veterans, REIGN by Paul Gibson and TRASBISCUIT by AJ Thouvenot and Ryan Coyne; plus the fun and flirty creations of Saint Louis Fashion Week newcomer Penny Rae Vintage by Melissa Rae Brown.
Luncheon: 11am, Runway Shows: 1pm
Saturday, October 17 BAKERS PRESENTS SURFACE Nice Collective, Wrath Arcane + Skif Cult. Art. Fashion. Experience the Midwest runway debut of Nice Collective. One of the world's most influential cult fashion brands, Nice Collective joins innovative menswear juggernaut Wrath Arcane and revolutionary avant garde knitwear label, Skif.