AMCONYC NYFW Brings Down the House with Emerging Designers and Extremely Diverse Runway Shows From Designers Rack Addick, Emuleos, Ivory Couture and exclusive accessories sponsor, Oriana Lamarca Designs!
New York Fashion Week, held in February and September of each year, is a semi-annual series of events (generally lasting 7–9 days) when international fashion collections are shown to buyers, the press and the general public.
New York, NY (February 15th, 2017) – AMCONYC, (http://www.amconyc.com ), a premier New York City production house, opened their doors for their 4th season for New York Fashion Week from February 9th to February 15th 2017. The event took place at Gary’s Loft on 28th West 36th Street from 3-6PM and showcased the exciting new collections from emerging designers, Rack Addik a Project Runway alumnus, Ivory Couture Clothing and Emuleos. The difference in the show production was not only evident by the timely show starts, but also futuristic designs and an extreme level of model diversity on the runway, a hot point of discussion in previous NYFW years. The crowd also erupted in a worthy round of applause as 4x Special Olympics US Gymnastics Champ, Chelsea Werner, walked the Ivory Couture show while recording artist Chis Porter performed his single "Catlkwalk Killer".
am delighted to announce that Oriana Lamarca Designs was featured as the Official Accessory Designer at Fashion Week in New York City. Specific “Armparty” was created for three distinctly different fashion designers, yet “Armparty” with its bold, beautiful colors complimented each of these collections and added the perfect touch!
Designers that showed included:
Kelly Dempsey is a self-taught fashion designer and former contestant on Season 14 of “Project Runway” where she landed runner-up. She is the founder and creative force behind Rack Addik, a newly launched clothing line focusing on fashion forward street wear. For her show, Oriana accessorized the models in her signature black velvet wrap choker, arm candy and some customized pieces included a long black onyx beaded necklace with hammered gold accent and a black lava beaded chain with zebra print horn pendant. The use of mostly black onyx and white howlite arm candy complimented the edgy feel of the line.
Ivory Couture Clothing Co. is a Prêt-à-Porter and Couture Fashion House created and founded by Bella Ivory and based downtown Los Angeles, CA. This Fashion House caters to the modern women who appreciate quality made garments that, compliments femininity in a classic chic design aesthetic. Here Oriana proved how you can take a classic black blazer and completely transform the look with a pop of bright colored arm candy paired with your basic black and beige. To finish off the look she added her super trendy tassel earrings which bright color and life to the upper body.