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TIM GUNN, Bravo Project Runway

PRESENTS...

KARA JANX, Bravo Project Runway Finalist

“MAKE IT WORK”
Metro Detroit Fashion Design Challenge
August 1, 2006 at 7 p.m.
at Haberman Fabrics

Join the fun as you support Metro Detroit designers.

A benefit for:

http://www.karmanos.org/

"MAKE IT WORK" Finalists Announced:

These 10 talented designers were selected from 65!! contest entries:
Sarah Lapinski, 28, Detroit; Michael Delon Wilson, 25, Detroit; Beulah Cooley, 50's, Detroit;
Samantha Bullock, 28, Detroit; Erica Chasco, 22, Huntington Woods; Anastasia Chatzka, 23, Chesterfield; Michelle Ariel Sanders, 23, Canton; Maisha Davis, 33, Southfield; Mary Catherine Buchanan, 26, Ann Arbor; and Jason Humphrey, 30, Detroit.

** Click here to Meet Our Finalists and to read the Design Challenge **

PROGRAM

HOST JON JORDAN
  - Get to know Jon Jordan, LOCAL 4 STYLE EDITOR (WDIV-TV).

RUNWAY COMPETITION
Begins at 7:00 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. This exciting evening of fashion design starts with a RUNWAY COMPETITION for our 10 Finalists showing their design challenge garments, each created with a $100.00 credit at Haberman Fabrics. Judges will choose a single Grand Prize Winner. Can you guess who will “MAKE IT WORK”?

CELEBRITY JUDGES
Represent critical areas of the fashion design industry.
  - Get to know Kara Janx, Bravo Project Runway Season Two Finalist
  - Get to know Susan Howes, HOUR DETROIT Magazine, Fashion Editor
  - Get to know Ken Dewey, Director of the 5th Avenue Club, the exclusive personal shopping service of Saks Fifth Avenue.


AUCTION!!!   PROJECT RUNWAY FINALE - NEW YORK TRIP
Can't get enough Project Runway? Then this is for you. It's just too fabulous.
While our judges are deliberating, Jon Jordan will don his auctioneer's hat and conduct this super auction with the audience. The package includes round-trip plane tickets for two from Detroit to New York and hotel accommodations for three days and two nights in New York City. PLUS two tickets to PROJECT RUNWAY's new Season 3 Finale fashion show at Olympus Fashion Week in New York City on September 15, 2006.

The TRIP PACKAGE estimated retail value is $3,000.00. Project Runway Finale tickets, PRICELESS! Go with your best friend. Bid often and bid high to be the lucky winner! All proceeds from the auction benefit breast cancer research and awareness programs at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute.

AUDIENCE “Q & A”
Follows the competition and awarding of prizes. Your opportunity to question our celebrity guests and contestants.

INFORMAL AFTERGLOW
Meet and greet our guests, and enjoy light refreshments.

TICKETS:  SORRY, WE ARE SOLD OUT!!



GRAND PRIZE PACKAGE

• PRICELESS OPPORTUNITY!  TIM GUNN, of Bravo’s Project Runway, offers his PROFESSIONAL CRITIQUE of the Winner’s portfolio or design book, by Dec. 31, 2006. Gunn is Chair of the Department of Fashion Design at Parsons The New School for Design in New York, the leader of fashion design education in America. Tim Gunn is unable to attend, so the winner’s portfolio will be sent to him for review. On Project Runway, Gunn is known for advising contestants to “Make it work!”
  Read more about Tim Gunn: click here.
  
  
• CA$H!!! One-half of the $20.00 admissions for the evening. A $2,500.00 prize! The remaining half of admissions benefits breast cancer research and awareness programs at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute.
  
  
• BERNINA® 430 SEWING MACHINE, with Bernina Stitch Regulator a $3,400.00 retail value (msrp), is offered by Bernina of America, maker of the finest sewing machines, and Universal Sewing Center, located in Haberman Fabrics.
  
  
•  AMERICAN SEWING EXPO'S ALL AMERICAN PACKAGE: Includes 15 hours of your choice of seminars, 3 days general admission, automatic entries in Dream Sewing Room Contest and tote bag. Show dates: Sept. 29-Oct. 1, 2006. Value: $156.00.
  http://www.americansewingexpo.com/
  
  
• CRANBROOK ART MUSEUM PACKAGE: “WHEN PHILIP MET ISABELLA -- PHILIP TREACY'S HATS FOR ISABELLA BLOW”: Cranbrook is donating a guided tour for up to 16 people, complete with catalogue to this extraordinary fashion exhibit, on view through August 27, 2006. Cranbrook is the only North American venue for this exciting show. Value $115.00.
  
  Philip Treacy studied fashion design in Dublin before winning a place at the Royal College of Art. He founded his own successful hat business, and has made haute couture hats for fashion houses like Chanel, Valentino, Gianni Versace and Alexander McQueen. Isabella Blow, one of the world’s most influential creative directors, also nurtured the careers of many designers. Read more about it: http://www.cranbrookart.edu/museum/treacy.html
  
  
• DETROIT FASHION INCUBATOR PACKAGE: 1-year membership and free access to seminars plus featured designer placement in the showroom. Pkg. value $545.00
  
  Detroit Fashion Incubator (DFI) Mission:
  To provide a creative environment that will nurture aspiring fashion design talent and entrepreneurs, while producing sound businesses that can compete in the apparel industry; to provide assistance to our members to develop the creative, marketing and business skills necessary to thrive and grow.
  
  To develop Detroit home-grown fashion based companies that can compete on the international stage and sustain growth. These companies will establish a sustainable apparel industry in the South Eastern Michigan Region, providing jobs and helping to boost the struggling economy in Michigan.
  
  DFI offers strategic programs and business consulting, as well as shared facilities, informative seminars and resources, marketing assistance and exceptional promotional opportunities, such as Project ReF@shion Detroit, our signature runway fashion show and competition featuring select members from across the state of Michigan.
  

Haberman Fabrics thanks these generous sponsors for their support: