Magic City Fashion Week Gears Up For Season 5 With Events Beginning Saturday

By Ameera Steward | The Birmingham Times With Season 5 of Magic City Fashion Week (MCFW) coming up, the MCFW team is gearing up to not only bring the community together, but also to prepare for what’s to come in October. Founded 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. “All of…this month’s [September] events are to build community and build our team, find our people, and get ready to highlight fashion,” said MCFW president and CEO, Daniel Grier. The Emerging Designers Competition fashion show will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, September 14, in The Gallery at the Pizitz Building (120 19th St. N). Applicants are asked to pre-register, and to wear all black. Additionally, for those interested...