VOLTAGE FASHION 2008
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Wednesday, April
16
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Main Room
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door 7:00 PM /
21+
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Voltage
Fashion is one of my favorite annual events.
It is an all-out high-energy fashion-show-cool-music extravaganza. The show
takes place at First
Avenue, probably the most famous venue in
the Twin Cities. The show sells out very quickly and gets very packed in there.
Even though we had intended to get there early, we didn't. Not that it would
have made much of a difference, because there was a long line to get in. At the
beginning I thought that the lines were for people who hadn't purchased tickets
in advance so I headed right for the entrance, only to find out that unless I
had VIP tickets, we would have to go on the line like everyone else.
Rats.
The lines moved quickly and soon we were inside. We made our way slowly to the catwalk. Fortunately we had a group of short Vietnamese women in front of us, so we could see fine. Linda went to get beer and when she came back we planted ourselves on that spot and didn't move once through the 3 hour long show. Voltage Fashion has a formula that they have been perfecting for a number of years. Basically they divide the show into segments. Each segment has a band and three designers. One designer gets assigned to dress the band, the other two show their desingns on the catwalk. Then it's on the next group. Before each segment they show video on a large screen of interviews with the designers and the bands. Each one gets to say something about his/her designs. Then the screen goes up and the band plays a couple of songs by themselves, after which the music continues and the models come out.
Linda and I brought cameras as usual and began to shoot along with hundreds of other photographers and video-makers. I must have shot 80 or 100 pictures and some video. Later on it was all about putting it on Flickr (Here is a slide show )
This year's Voltage Fashion included:
Runway
POMIJE & STANDARD ISSUE COLLECTION
ZIBRAZIBRA! outfitted by Ivan Idland
Runway
BELLE AND CALPURINA PEACH
THE HAVES HAVE IT outfitted by EM/MA
Runway
MAX LOHRBACH & GEORGE MOSKAL
BELLA KOSHKA outfitted by ann alyse clothing
Runway
AMANDA CHRISTINE & KATHERINE GERDES
WHITE LIGHT RIOT outfitted by Elizabeth Chesney
Runway
SWANK DOLLAR & RED SHOE CLOTHING CO.
MC/VL outfitted by Erin Smith
Runway
RUSSELL BOURRIENNE & LAURA FULK
BIRTHDAY SUITS outfitted by Dan Patrick
The lines moved quickly and soon we were inside. We made our way slowly to the catwalk. Fortunately we had a group of short Vietnamese women in front of us, so we could see fine. Linda went to get beer and when she came back we planted ourselves on that spot and didn't move once through the 3 hour long show. Voltage Fashion has a formula that they have been perfecting for a number of years. Basically they divide the show into segments. Each segment has a band and three designers. One designer gets assigned to dress the band, the other two show their desingns on the catwalk. Then it's on the next group. Before each segment they show video on a large screen of interviews with the designers and the bands. Each one gets to say something about his/her designs. Then the screen goes up and the band plays a couple of songs by themselves, after which the music continues and the models come out.
Linda and I brought cameras as usual and began to shoot along with hundreds of other photographers and video-makers. I must have shot 80 or 100 pictures and some video. Later on it was all about putting it on Flickr (Here is a slide show )
This year's Voltage Fashion included:
Runway
POMIJE & STANDARD ISSUE COLLECTION
ZIBRAZIBRA! outfitted by Ivan Idland
Runway
BELLE AND CALPURINA PEACH
THE HAVES HAVE IT outfitted by EM/MA
Runway
MAX LOHRBACH & GEORGE MOSKAL
BELLA KOSHKA outfitted by ann alyse clothing
Runway
AMANDA CHRISTINE & KATHERINE GERDES
WHITE LIGHT RIOT outfitted by Elizabeth Chesney
Runway
SWANK DOLLAR & RED SHOE CLOTHING CO.
MC/VL outfitted by Erin Smith
Runway
RUSSELL BOURRIENNE & LAURA FULK
BIRTHDAY SUITS outfitted by Dan Patrick
pictures by me
voltage2008
Posted: Wednesday - April 16, 2008 at 12:38 PM
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