East End Oyster & Martini Bar will look as sweet as Candyland Wednesday as UNC’s fashion magazine Kaleidoscope puts on their fifth annual fashion show, this year called “College Dream.”
The fashion show was inspired by the style of Katy Perry, said fashion director Samantha Brody, who put on the show with the help of assistant Katie Wood.
“I just thought it’d be really fun because she’s so out there with her style, so we could do something different,” Brody said.
The event will have lollipop and pinwheel props, candy-colored mocktails, half-price martinis, cupcakes and trays of candy. Katy Perry will soundtrack the entire night.
“It’s more of a Candyland dream than a college dream,” said director of Public Relations Nicole Holmes.
The show will feature the fashions of designers such as Herve Leger, Diane von Furstenberg, tibi and Parker. Local boutiques fab’rik, Uniquities, Scout & Molly’s and Julian’s — among others — let the magazine borrow clothes for the show. The more well known designers’ clothes are rented through the website Rent the Runway.
Editor-in-chief Maria Ward said the show will feature “hot new prints and colors, candy colors, jewel tones, very bright, punchy patterns and shades.”
Fashionistas who like what they see will receive pamphlets detailing where to buy all of the looks presented in the show. Kaleidoscope will also be raffling off items from local boutiques, with raffle tickets costing $1 each.
Attendees will have the opportunity to get their picture taken by Kaleidoscope photographers on a red carpet with an East End backdrop. The pictures will be posted on Kaleidoscope’s Facebook page.
The event is largely a student effort. The models are all UNC students, and the makeup and hair will be done by students at the Aveda Institute.
Ward said this year’s fashion show is an improvement from the 2008 show she put on as a freshman, in which all of the clothes came from the staff’s closets.
“At that point…we were still a young publication,” Ward said. “One of the biggest achievements we’ve had these past couple years is this great relationship with the boutiques. They let us take out this brand name clothing, thousands and thousands of dollars’ worth of clothing.”
Deputy editor Kelsey Isenberg said that Kaleidoscope puts on fashion shows to show UNC and the surrounding community what they have to offer as a fashion magazine.
“It’s really fun to kind of bring what we do to life,” Isenberg said. “We can show what we have to offer in person rather than just in print.”
Doors will open at 9:30 p.m. and the show will start at 10. Tickets will be sold for $3 in the Pit from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. today and are $5 at the door.
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