Magic City Fashion Week Begins Oct. 17 in Birmingham. Here’s What to Expect

By Ameera Steward | The Birmingham Times When one thinks of Magic City Fashion Week, they should picture the excitement of the New York Fashion Week scene with the art, creativity, and overall magic of Birmingham. Founded in 2017 to cultivate, connect, showcase, and provide economic opportunity to Birmingham’s creative community through fashion, MCFW emphasizes the development of emerging designers while fostering engagement with community partners to utilize fashion as a vehicle for change. With this goal in mind each season includes an emerging designer competition fashion show as the main event where emerging designers showcase their collections to a group of judges who then choose a winner who is usually given a prize as well as mentorship to officially present their collection to a wider audience. This year’s fashion week starts tomorrow [Oct. 17] with the following events: On Thursday Oct. 17 at the Haute Pink fundraiser for Forge Breast Cancer Survivor Center ten breast cancer survivors will walk the runway sporting designs created by 10 Birmingham designers. Among the designers are MCFW Season One winner Kenya B. and Season Four designer Julie Maeselle. The event will be held at Red Mountain Theatre at 7 p.m., and tickets are...