To show off the hard work of Fashion Design II and practicum students, Prosper High School will host the first district fashion show this Thursday at 6:30 p.m., located in the Auditorium. Designers from Prosper, Rock Hill, and Walnut Grove High School will be given a chance to participate and showcase their designs. Admission is free.
“I love fashion because you can absolutely get creative and use your imagination to create a beautiful masterpiece (from) kind of just complete, total nothing,” junior and designer Simone Mishuris said. “That’s where you can show off your talent and who you are and what style you have.”
While the fashion show has been around for more than five years, this year’s incorporates all Prosper ISD schools for the first time – not just PHS.
“This show’s much longer, and I get to see other schools and how their minds work because we all think pretty similarly in our room,” junior and designer Hayden Cox said. “So I always like seeing their different ideas.”
The fashion show has a theme every year. Last year, the theme was cinema – something senior and designer Jade Hotard said she found boring and restrictive. This year it’s fantasy.
“Fantasy can be anything,” Hotard said. “So I feel like it might be liked a lot more because fantasy can be a princess, it can be a take on, like a mythological creature, it can be so many different things, and it can still be fantasy.”
Designers have been working on their outfits since October. Each of them has one to three looks in the show.
“I’m excited for my family to come see, like, all the hard work I’ve done over the school year,” junior and designer Peyton Simon said. “So that’s gonna be really cool to see.”
Every look will be worn by a model or its designer. Applications for models were sent out in September and Mishuris said they were selected based on their skin tone, facial structures, hair and how it would correspond with the colors and fabrics being used. To prepare, the models have been trying on their outfits, practicing walking in their heels and acquiring all the accessories needed for hair and makeup.
“You just get all glammed up and walk across the stage,” senior and model Amanda Reisner said. “It’s just fun.”
The show is being organized by Fashion Design I, II, and practicum teacher Tiffany Sanchez. She said her job was to manage her student designers and handle the coordination of the auditorium, playlist and script for the show. She hopes her students will gain confidence by being a part of it.
“Sometimes we will watch episodes of old Project Runway that came out on Bravo, and one of the contestants had only been sewing for four months, and then she went on to win,” Sanchez said. “And so I think that kind of put things into perspective like they can do great things also. But I want them to gain the confidence in themselves that they’re able to do something that’s challenging – that’s maybe not expected of a high school student.”
Senior Anvi Bansal is the student director who is helping Sanchez with the show. She was a Fashion Design II student last year and had a collection that walked in the school. She took it upon herself to help volunteer as it was student-run, and Sanchez asked if she wanted to assist again this year because she had experience.
“I loved being a part of the show last year,” Bansal said. “And since I don’t have a collection walking this year, I was super excited to be involved in it again.”
After the final catwalk, designers hope that their designs will showcase all their efforts.
“People should come to the show to support Prosper High School and just support the designers,” Reisner said. “Because, I mean, they worked so long and hard to make these outfits, and it’s going to be a lot of fun together.”
