Ventura Fashion Performance For Museum Features
Creative Transformations
Ventura, California-- Using everything from
recycled bicycle tires to fabric, glass, plastic
and precious metal, more than 30 local and
regional artists and designers are busy creating
clothing and accessories for the Museum of
Ventura County’s 2nd annual art as fashion event
Transformation: A Fashion Performance. The
fundraiser is Saturday, October 3, with a
catered reception at 6:00 p.m. and fashion show
with runway seating at 7:15 p.m.
Fashions transformed from one use to another
include one-of-a-kind clothes by clothing
company Stewart + Brown, made of salvage cloth
scraps from the manufacture of other garments;
Anne Simon’s outfits fashioned of old rain
gutter pipes, recycled Christmas tree beads and
tops of mocha coffee drinks; Lisa D. Moore’s
moving sculptural veil made from plastic
bottles.
Museum support group Las Contemporaneas is
hosting the Museum event. Tickets are $45 each
or $40 for museum members; VIP preferred runway
seating, including a gift bag of schwag, is $75.
Reservation deadline is September 29, if seating
remains available. For reservations and
information, call Suzy Dyer at 805-641-1876 x
304.
Invited artists and designers include Dolores
Barrett, Anna Bermúdez, Robert Bermúdez, Rolando
Camarena, Michelle Chapin, Carolyn Cozen, Lori
Cozen-Geller, Victoria Delgadillo, Fran Elson,
Sergio Flores, Diana Galicia, Emilia García,
Maribel Hernandez, Flora Ito, Miller James,
Deborah Jarchow, Ariane Karakalos, Anna
Karakalou, Brecia Kralovic Logan, Stacy Logue,
Sol Mesz, Lindsay Miller, Lisa D. Moore, Sarah
Roberts, Lauren Robertson, Lisa Rocha, Teal
Rowe, Jodi Saenger, Susan Seaberry, Anne Simon,
Stewart + Brown, Andrea Vargas, Rosel Weedn.
The Museum of Ventura County is at 89 South
California Street, corner of California and
Santa Clara Streets in downtown Ventura. The
museum is open Tuesday through Sunday 11 a.m. to
6 p.m., first Fridays of the month until 8 p.m.
Free admission, except for some events.
venturamuseum.org.
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