Hello!

We wanted to thank you again for your continuous support of The Fashion Show. Through the generosity of your 2020 FundISU donation, The Fashion Show was able to work around the pandemic to acknowledge everyone’s hard work and dedication.

Our annual FundISU campaign for TFS 2021 launched online on February 3rd at 7pm. We would appreciate your consideration in donating to our 2021 campaign! 

You can find our 2021 campaign here: https://fundisu.foundation.iastate.edu/TFS2021

Best,

The Fashion Show 2021 Producer Team

Makenzi, Megan, Annie & Kaitlyn

We wanted to say one final "Thank You!" from The Fashion Show 2020 for your support! If you received a free sticker, shirt, or exclusive TFS 2020 mug, these items were shipped out last week. 

Thank you again. We hope you can join us for The Fashion Show 2021 on April 17, 2021!

Good afternoon, Friends of The Fashion Show,

We are excited to announce that the digital showcase for The Fashion Show 2020 is LIVE!  You can now check out the digital program, all of the entries, the Set team’s awesome work, great conversations with the BTS committee, and ALL THE SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS! We hope you enjoy seeing all the hard work that went into TFS 2020.

Here’s the link: https://www.aeshm.hs.iastate.edu/fashion-show/fashion-show-2020-modern-awakening/

To all of The Fashion Show 2020’s Generous Donors,

We would like to invite you to The Digital Fashion Show 2020 on Facebook from 7-10 pm CST today! Even though we can't all celebrate in person, we wanted to create a time and space to acknowledge all the hard work and accomplishments our directors, committee members, models, and student designers have put into TFS 2020. 

As a valued member of our audience each year, we encourage you to interact with student posts during this online event and share posts as well. Share your posts directly into the Facebook event linked below. We hope you will join us in our online celebration! 

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/628344624411191/?active_tab=about

The Outreach Producers are responsible for creating a merchandise assortment for The Fashion Show. Typically, merchandise is sold on campus through the spring semester and at the show. However, this year we have had to innovate! 

We will be hosting online merch sales until May 6th, 2020. Browse our products and place your order with the following google form. If any questions arise, please reach out to us at fs.producers@iastate.edu. Stay home but stay repping TFS 2020. 

Below are the form link and a photo of our apparel products! We also have a canvas tote bag, laptop stickers, and enamel pins.

Order here!

To all of The Fashion Show 2020’s Generous Donors,

As you are surely aware, COVID-19 is forcing all of us to change our plans in the coming weeks, and The Fashion Show is no different. Everyone in the organization is working together to navigate the current situation and develop new ways to showcase the amazing work of the students in the Apparel, Merchandising, and Design (AMD) program.

In light of current recommendations and to ensure the health and safety of The Fashion Show participants and attendees, we will no longer be able to hold a runway show on April 18 and are exploring options to host The Fashion Show 2020 in a different format this coming fall semester. We are also moving ahead with a digital format for the judging process. It is important to everyone in The Fashion Show that every dollar allocated for student scholarships is in the hands of students by the end of the spring semester.

All merchandise based incentives from this year’s campaign will be mailed out to donors in the coming weeks, including laptop stickers, t-shirts, and coffee mugs. The experience based incentives will all be rolled over into The Fashion Show 2021. If you qualified for the pre-sale, the backstage tour, or the VIP parking, your name will automatically be on the lists for all three of those incentives next spring.

We appreciate your understanding and support of all of the students involved with The Fashion Show this spring. Your donations do so much already to support experiential learning for Iowa State students – both through all of the events completed this spring semester, and for all of the events we are working on in the future. Please keep an eye on all of our social media pages to see how we are taking The Fashion Show off of the runway and into your living rooms!

Any questions about The Fashion Show 2020 can be directed to Faculty Advisor Sarah Bennett-George (sbennett@iastate.edu). If you have questions about your gift to The Fashion Show, please director your question to ISU Foundation Assistant Director of Annual and Special Gifts Dana Savagian (savagian@foundation.iastate.edu). To stay up-to-date on the university's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, please follow: https://web.iastate.edu/safety/updates/covid19.

Hello Donors!

We are receiving many questions regarding COVID-19. We are currently working on the situation and will maintain a close watch over updates from Iowa State University. As we gain more information, we will be sure to update you all.

Hello donors! 

For the donors who qualified, pre-sale begins on Monday, March 9th at 12 PM. To purchase tickets online, you will need the password that was emailed to your yesterday. 

General public ticket sales begin Monday, March 16th at 12 PM. They can be purchased at Stephens Auditorium box office and online at Ticketmaster.

Ticketmaster Link: https://www1.ticketmaster.com/2020-fashion-show/event/0600583EEFA2BCC3

Only 45 more days until The Fashion Show 2020! We hope to see you there! Please contact fs.producers@iastate.edu if you have any questions or did not receive an email about pre-sale. 

Thank you to everyone who has donated to The Fashion Show 2020! We are excited to announce our final fundraising amount, including check and cash donations, totaling $34,005 ! We greatly surpassed our initial goal of $25,000 and are thrilled to say this is a record breaking fundraising year for The Fashion Show. Each year, we are grateful for the overwhelming support from our donors. The Fashion Show would not be possible without your contributions! Now it's time to receive your incentives for donating, so be on the lookout for an email regarding specific incentive information!

Ticket Sales:

Public ticket sales open on March 16, 2020 at 12:00 pm at the Stephens Auditorium Ticket Office or online at Ticketmaster.com. Tickets range from $15-30 depending on location and those purchased through Ticketmaster will incur additional fees.

*Link to Ticketmaster will become available closer to this date. Be sure to check our social media for access!

If you are unable to attend, The Fashion Show 2020 will be streaming live online for the 4th consecutive year! Anyone is invited to join our streaming audience from your homes across the country or the world! Details for live stream viewing will be posted here on our social media closer to the show. We look forward to seeing everyone on April 18, 2020!

Social Accounts:

Facebook: The Fashion Show

Instagram: ISUFashionShow

Twitter: @ISUFashionShow

Our Philanthropy directors (Carly Haaning, Emily DeDonker, and Nicole Ernst) have been working to secure and plan our three philanthropy events for The Fashion Show 2020. We are happy to continue our past relationships with Days for Girls and Dress for Success, and are excited to start a new relationship with Hughats.

This year The Fashion Show is excited to be partnering with Hughats for the first time ever! Hughats is a non-profit organization recently created by Kris Abel-Helwig, a breast cancer survivor, who had the dream of making hats to comfort those going through chemotherapy treatments. Kris not only wants to help chemotherapy patients, but she also wants to spread joy to Alzheimer’s & dementia patients, in loving memory of her late mother. Volunteers for Hughats create hats, or 'hugs,' for children and adults in need of some warming up. Our team is hoping to send over 100 hats to children cancer patients, nursing home patients, and those in hospice care. Join us on February 22nd from 10am-1pm in the Sun Room at Iowa State’s Memorial Union to make some Hughats!

We are proud to be partnering with Dress for Success Des Moines for the fourth year. Dress for Success is a non-profit organization that provides programs to help local women acquire jobs, retain their positions, and succeed in the mainstream workplace.  Their mission is “to empower women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support, professional attire, and development tools to help women thrive in work and in life.” The Philanthropy committee will be collaborating with several other Fashion Show events to collect clothes and accessories throughout the spring semester! If you have any items you would like to donate or have questions about the program, please contact fs.philanthropy@iastate.edu.

Along with Dress for Success, they are continuing our partnership with Days for Girls. Days for Girls increases access to menstrual care and education by developing global partnerships, cultivating social enterprises, mobilizing volunteers, and innovating sustainable solutions that shatter stigmas and limitations for women and girls. Together, we're creating a world with dignity, health, and opportunity for all. We are hosting a Sew Day on March 7th from 10am-3pm in Lebaron Hall (Room 2088 + Sewing Lab) to make reusable menstruation kits that will be sent to girls in developing countries.

Follow us on social media to keep up with our philanthropic events!

Facebook: The Fashion Show

Instagram: ISUFashionShow

Twitter: @ISUFashionShow

Registration is now open for the annual Behind the Scenes Day which takes place on April 17th, 2019. Behind the Scenes Day is designed for both prospective students and their family members and high school fashion students and their teachers. During the day, students will participate in mini activities, hear from students about their college experiences, and interact with faculty. The day ends with a viewing of the final dress rehearsal of the Iowa State University Fashion Show and Design Competition. The tentative schedule can be found at the link below.

If you have any questions, please contact fs.bts@iastate.edu.

How to Register: The links to register for Behind The Scenes Day can be found here: https://www.hs.iastate.edu/future-students/major-exploration/behind-the-scenes-day/ There is a charge of $10.00 per attendee for Behind the Scenes Day, which must be paid at the time of registration.

With only 64 days until The Fashion Show 2020, our Design Directors (Cassy Eaton, Annie Fitzpatrick, & Kajsa Hallberg) have been busy securing several industry professionals who will serve as our Guest Judges. In March, four Guest Judges will evaluate all student entries for The Fashion Show 2020 and award over $10,000 in scholarships! Be sure to mark your calendars for our Meet the Judges event on March 27th. 

2020 Guest Judges 

CHRIS DOVE

Chris Dove graduated with a degree in Apparel, Merchandising, and Design with an emphasis in both creative and technical design from ISU in 2013.  During his time at Iowa State, Chris was the first fashion beat reporter at the Daily, created and directed the Trend for Men section of Trend Magazine, served as a Teaching Assistant for Fashion Illustration, and was a director for Behind the Scenes at The Fashion Show. He got his start in the industry working as a technical design intern for Toddler Accessories at Target. Now based in Minneapolis, Chris is the Senior Product Designer over Universal Thread & Wild Fable accessories at Target Corporation. He has spent the last 7 years growing his expertise in handbags, hats & belts, working to bring authentic & fashionable style to the mass market.  

ANYA CABOTH

Anya Caboth graduated from Iowa State University in 2009 with a degree in Apparel, Merchandising, and Design with a Technical Design emphasis. Anya’s 10+ year career has taken her to several states, working for notable brands like Nike, Reebok, Tilly’s and 686 Outerwear along with smaller brands like Pair of Thieves and Young & Reckless. She has worked in Technical Design and Product Development on nearly all product categories in the business, ranging from Technical Outerwear, Denim, Athleisure, Underwear and Lifestyle across all genders. She can currently be found living in Portland, Oregon working on Men’s, Women’s & Youth branded soccer apparel for Nike. 

ERIN PEPE

Erin Pepe graduated from Iowa State University with a degree in Apparel, Merchandising, and Design in 2004. She started her career with Steve Madden as a Merchandise Manager and Buyer. Over her career, she has worked in E-commerce for various companies including Nina Footwear, John Varvatos Enterprises, and Club Monaco. She’s currently based in New York, New York and is the VP of E-commerce at Zadig & Voltaire.

ADDIE MARTINDALE

Addie Martindale is a designer, scholar, educator who received her Ph.D. from Iowa State in Apparel, Merchandising, and Design in May of 2017. Drawing from her years of industry experience in apparel product development and retail management, Addie has been teaching fashion merchandising and apparel design courses for the last 8 years. Her design work that has been internationally exhibited focuses on sustainable design practices and underserved consumers with the goal to find solutions that can both empower consumers and extend garment use longevity. Addie is currently an Assistant Professor of Fashion Merchandising and Apparel Design at Georgia Southern University.

Hi FundISU Donors,

We are so excited to announce we have already reached our goal of $25,000!

We wanted to let you know we are still accepting donations until FundISU closes in 8 days. Today in class, we challenged our organization members to continue their fundraising efforts in hopes to reach our new (unofficial) goal of $30,000.

Thank you for all your support! The Fashion Show truly would not be possible without all our amazing donors. 

See what TFS is up to on social media:

Facebook: The Fashion Show

Instagram: ISUFashionShow

Twitter: @ISUFashionShow

Hello FundISU Donors! We are 16 days out from the end of our campaign and have set a goal to raise $2,400 in the next 24 hours starting at 7pm today until 7pm tomorrow! Support from donors like you is the reason we are able to produce a fashion show on the scale that we have here at Iowa State. FundISU donations account for one-third of our production costs! With that being said the $2,400 we are working to raise today could pay for 1,127 Show Programs, hair and makeup for our 50+ models, and transportation to bring our Guest Designers and Judges to campus.

There are many more aspects of our show that the FundISU campaign supports and makes possible. We are so grateful for our donors like you! Thanks for your continuous support of our program. We can’t wait to see how much we can fundraise in the next 24 hours!

We are so excited to see the momentum our crowdfunding campaign has gained in only one short week. From all of us at The Fashion Show, we would like to extend a huge "Thank You!" to all of our donors so far! This week we’re sharing our progress on our TFS 2020 theme and our fundraising progress.

We are so excited to present the theme for the 2020 show: Modern Awakening. Created through student collaboration this theme encompasses the beauty and wonder from the past to the present. Modern Awakening honors The Fashion Show’s history while aligning the values of our beginning with that of the show today. The Fashion Show 2020: Modern Awakening aims to represent our numerous student designers and their collections in a way that values every design that crosses the stage. Multiple Director teams collaborated to take Modern Awakening from an initial mood board into a specific vision for our theme that will be represented in all TFS materials. From marketing materials to visual merchandising displays to set creation, Modern Awakening is represented throughout it all. Thanks to our Art Director (Lauren Hansen), alongside our Gallery and Display Directors (Rachel Lininger and Emily Schrimpf) and our Set Directors (Anna Zimmerman, Cameron Wahlberg and Madelyn Uhl) for helping establish a clear vision for The Fashion Show 2020: Modern Awakening.

Now for some fundraising news! This week over 60 Fashion Show Directors and committee members worked the concessions at the Iowa State Men’s basketball game against Baylor. In doing so, The Fashion Show receives a portion of the sales made. This contributes to a significant amount of our organizations fundraising efforts and we are so grateful for the hard work our Fundraising Directors (Cara Tschida and Sarah Solnet) put in to make this event happen!

For FundISU, we have surpassed over 50% of our fundraising goal in a little over one week! We are completely blown away and so excited for how this support will allow The Fashion Show to continue to grow as a student organization and an event. We are looking forward to seeing where the following 22 days of our FundISU campaign take us!

Hello FundISU Donors! Happy New Year! As we enter the new year, we look back on 2019 and are so thankful for your continuous support of The Fashion Show. Last year we surpassed our fundraising goal, raising a grand total of $26,201! Thank you for your generous donations that make each year the best possible production.

Tonight marks the start of our fundraising campaign for 2020! Our FundISU campaign through the Iowa State Foundation will be live for 30-days, ending on February 21st. We are excited for the challenge of raising $25,000 in this short time frame!

Please follow our social media platforms to take a look at what our student leaders have been developing over the past few months. We appreciate every donation that helps support the continual growth of our organization! 

To Donate:

To donate to the Friends of The Fashion Show through the FundISU page, please visit:

https://fundisu.foundation.iastate.edu/TFS2020

Or Send a check to The Fashion Show at:

31 MacKay Hall, 2302 Osborne Dr., Ames, IA 50011

Follow us on social media:

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Twitter: @ISUFashionShow