Black Women’s Network to hold annual fashion show

Emporia State University’s Black Women’s Network will hold its annual fashion show at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Memorial Union Ballroom.

The event is free, but all donations collected at the end of the fashion show will be donated to the Emporia SOS shelter. SOS shelters are shelters for battered women. The goal of the fashion show is to raise awareness to the ESU community about a number of different diseases and causes such as muscular dystrophy, AIDS, sickle cell anemia, breast cancer and the March of Dimes.

“The event is great because it will bring so much awareness about the different diseases and causes to the Emporia campus,” Ashley Cheffen, one of the fashion show coordinators, said.

BWN holds this event once each year and this is the fourth annual fashion show. This year, 16 models will be participating, 15 females and one male.

Cheffen said her favorite part of the event was when the pregnant women modeled maternity clothing.

“My favorite part of the event will be [the] March of Dimes [section] when the pregnant mommies model because they are so cute!” she said.

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