Looking Forward to Boston Fashion Week 2014

Once Labor Day has passed and temperatures take that shocking drop it only means one thing, Fashion Week’s around the world.

This year Boston Fashion Week will take place October 5th through the 11th and will be dedicated to the late Marilyn Riseman, a fashion legend in our city. The Boston Fashion Week organization is inviting this year's designers/event producers to keep one front row seat open as a tribute to Marilyn Riseman's lifetime commitment to the art of fashion and her tireless support of our creative community.

The School of Fashion Design will be creating an installation called "Marilyn & Me" in the lobby of their Newbury Street location. It will be unveiled during Boston Fashion Week in honor of Marilyn Riseman, and be on display throughout the month of October.

Getting your photo taken with the local fashion icon was a rite of passage for many. Anyone fortunate enough to have shared a moment and taken a photo with Marilyn is invited to share it with the School of Fashion Design. The project, equal parts heart, history, and haute couture is meant to represent the many lives Marilyn Riseman has touched in our community. You are able to email photos to marilynandmesfd@gmail.com. Please be sure to include your full name, email address, and any message you'd like to share.

I will be listing the full and official schedule in next week’s Socially Scene column; you can also access what is currently in place at www.bostonfashionweek.com. For now here are a few highlights; currently at the Museum of Fine Arts through March 8th 2015 is, “Hollywood Glamour: Fashion and Jewelry from the Silver Screen”.

“Hollywood Glamour: Fashion and Jewelry from the Silver Screen” presents designer gowns and exquisite jewelry from the 1930s and ‘40s—the most glamorous years of Hollywood film. The exhibition focuses on the iconic style of sultry starlets of the period, including Gloria Swanson, Anna May Wong, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Mae West, and Joan Crawford.

Hollywood style in this era was a blend of on- and off-screen fashion and accessories, including dramatic costumes created for the screen by famous designers such as Adrian, Travis Banton, and Chanel and dazzling jewelry from makers of the era like Trabert & Hoeffer-Mauboussin and Paul Flato.

Along with eye-catching gowns once worn by famous figures and the sparkling jewels that contributed to their allure from the MFA and private collections, photography by Edward Steichen along with period photographs, film stills, and film clips capture the style of the silver screen era. Enjoy a glimpse of Hollywood in the Golden Age of glamour.

The exhibit will be on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in the Loring Gallery of Textiles (Gallery 276) located at 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. You may visit www.mfa.org/exhibitions/hollywood-glamour for more information or call the museum at 617-267-9300.

Thursday, October 2nd at 6 p.m. enjoy Descience – Research on the Runway, Presented by Descience and The Koch Institute for ArtWeek. You can explore Descience, a project that fuses the world of science and fashion into a unique symbiotic relationship. Exclusively for ArtWeek, Descience and The Koch Institute will allow the public to attend an interactive exhibition where designers and scientists will be on hand to discuss and answer questions related to their science-inspired fashions.

Mix and mingle, watch videos about the creative process, and see how deeply art and science can collide to make something beautiful. All featured designs will have recently been shown at a runway show in the MIT Media Lab judged by experts in the fields of science and fashion, and you get to see a few of them now! The Koch Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology is located at 500 Main Street, Cambridge and for more information email info@fashiondescience.com.

Let the must see shows begin with a fashion favorite on Tuesday Oct 7th 6 p.m. at Royale Boston Nightclub. The night will benefit Dress for Success Boston. For more information visit www.dressforsucces.org/boston, www.denisehajjar.com even grab a sneak peek at her boutique located at the InterContinental Boston 510 Atlantic Ave Boston or call 617-266-2296.

Get into the groove with the new editions to Boston Fashion Week on October 8th at Emerald Lounge from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. for a luxury high fashion brand called Latoré.

A Boston legend in the industry Firas Yousif is surprise surprise SOLD OUT! Maybe you can talk your way in into his show that will take place on Friday October 10th at 7p.m. in The Algonquin Club to unveil his 2015 couture collection.

The Boston debut of the Carla Fernandez will be on Thursday, October 9th at 6:30p.m. on the Catwalk in Calderwood Hall, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum located 25 Evans Way, Boston.

Space is limited and there will be an after party in the courtyard with music by DJ Ricardo De Lima. To purchase tickets you may call 617-278-5156 or visit www.gardnermuseum.org/calendar/events/6022.

That was just a tasty tid bit of what Boston Fashion Week has to offer! As always, the event crew encourages you to continue to seek out fashion professionals in the area, buy local, and be instrumental in helping our local fashion industry thrive. Stay tuned to next week’s column for a full listing of shows and events.

Photo By Cheryl Richards