Brooklyn Fashion Week{end} Flaunts Elected Elite, Couture Designers, And Crowning Partners.

This year’s Brooklyn Fashion Week{end} Circus Couture showcase proves to have all the right ingredients for success. High-profile elected officials, top-notch sponsors and seasoned designers have fashionably assembled to support the Spring/Summer 2008 collections and surrounding events. Generously endorsed by Brooklyn Borough President, Marty Markowitz and his office, Councilwoman Letitia James, and the DUMBO Improvement District, BK Fashion Week{end} will launch Friday, October 19th, and run consecutively through Sunday, October 21st, at the Tobacco Warehouse, a 19th century landmark on the banks of the East River, in Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park. This beautiful location is being provided to us courtesy of The Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy, the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, and the Natural Heritage Trust.

A few of this year’s sponsors and partners have emerged as key players in enhancing the already stellar environment at BK Fashion Week{end}. As the iconic bulls eye recognized worldwide, TARGET is committed to providing Brooklyn Fashion Week{end} guests with great design through innovative products, in-store experiences and community partnerships. Baccarat, a new sponsor this season, has been selected as the official jewelry partner and will be presenting Bold & Beautiful a feature presentation on Saturday night. The ageless beauty of Baccarat fine jewelry signifies status and lends crystal a new image.
The 3-day event will boast substance and couture style from emerging designers and is open to 3000 invited guests including fashion and style opinion makers, fashion journalists, mainstream and local media, celebrities, retail, entertainment executives and for the first time ever at a major fashion show, the general public. Closing Night will feature a special performance by Sony Music Siren, Kat De Luna known for her global smash hit, "Whine Up" featuring Elephant Man.

With a focus on inspired philanthropy, the Brooklyn Style Foundation is giving away a select number of free tickets to Brooklyn Fashion Week{end} devotees over the course of the weekend. To obtain your free ticket, log on at www.going.com/bkfashionweekend.

Superior designers will mark the stylish and star-studded start For Brooklyn Fashion Week{end}. Malan Breton, whom has catapulted into American pop culture on Bravo TV's Project Runway 3, will deliciously kick-off the opening night festivities with the debut of his acclaimed self-titled line, Malan by
Malan Breton. Additional unveilings set to parade at the 19th Century Landmark include, for the third time at the event, Nana Boateng, a fashion architect whose forward thinking lines consistently speak volumes about attitude and sex appeal, and notorious for his very well developed style and affluent client base which includes celebrities such as Lawrence Fishburne and Samuel L. Jackson; The femininely funky and urbane Black Girl’s Rock! Collection; The witty, sexual, traditionally futuristic and ethnically tribal apparel of Nico & Adrian; The fashion conscious women’s line of Envi, clothing for an eco-conscious lifestyle where style and fashion mesh with environmental and social responsibility; Catou, where sophisticated and ageless fashion are birthed; The visionary accoutrement of Cotrice, where custom designs bring out an extraordinary combination of raw elegance and funk; Joan Vacciana and her elaborately garbed self-titled habiliment; Deneisha Latoya, formerly of Muse by DLW, will orchestrate exquisitely refined duds, saturated in glamour; The contemporarily couture and feminine trappings of Alisha Trimble; The provocative inspired menswear, Torsion; The high end delicate prints and bold colors of Duroseau Couture, a style reminiscent of classic red carpet fashion; And the culturally embedded Sena collection.

Brooklyn Fashion Week{end} Circus Couture will stage a mesmerizing show with quintessentially bureaucratic archetypes—courtesy of the prominently alluring Councilwoman, Letitia James—and statuesque fashion models sashaying and vamping it up in front of a powerful audience. The display will sum up the best of Circus Couture: a theatrical experience with truly desirable clothes from the Reggae-inspired lifestyle brand, Riddim Driven; The uberly mod and chic line of Saleem; And the London-born musically-charged" fashion label, Love Brigade. Civic Leaders set to grace the promenade are, current New York City Council member for Brooklyn's 35th Council District, Council Woman, Letitia James; Council Member David Yassky. As one of the "Top 100 New Democrats to Watch" in the nation,” Council Member Yassky represents the vibrant and diverse neighborhoods of Greenpoint, Williamsburg, Vinegar Hill, DUMBO, Brooklyn Heights, Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill, Downtown Brooklyn and Park Slope; ; Endorsed by The New York Times as a “bright and eloquent young lawyer,” who has the makings of a “political star, the remarkably esteemed Assembly Member, Hakeem Jeffries of the 57th District of Brooklyn will be making his runway debut alongside Senator Eric L. Adams of the 20th Senatorial District. The renowned Senator Adams represents one of the most vibrant and wonderfully diverse districts in all of New York The widely recognized and respected; the eminently brilliant Assembly Woman, Annette M. Robinson of the 56th Assembly District; Council Member Charles Barron. Council Member Barron represents parts of East New York, Brownsville, East Flatbush, and Canarsie; The distinguished Assemblyman William Frank Boyland, Jr.; The commendably classical Senator Kevin S. Parker of the 21st Senatorial District in Brooklyn; As the second youngest member of the City Council, Council Member Erik Martin-Dilan represents 37th Council District and has achieved profound accomplishments on behalf of Brooklyn;

Additional Sponsors supporting the 2008 Circus Couture Collections are West Elm, a lifestyle furniture and accessories retail brand, will be the official furniture partner for the exclusively chic and private VIP area. Fresh and modern, West Elm draws design savvy customers with stylish, high-quality furniture and accessories. With an extensive range of prices, the brand has earned a reputation for affordable style, and has grown into a destination lifestyle concept known for unique, exclusive and innovative design; The gorgeously mod palette of Becca Cosmetics, founded by Rebecca Morrice Williams, Becca Cosmetics offers an ultimate range of skin-perfecting products that makes it possible for ALL women to experience the pleasure of a flawless and radiant complexion. Signing on as the official Magazine Partner is the smart, chic, and savvy New York women’s publication, New York Moves; New York Water Taxi, the ultimate water taxi service offering commuter and sightseeing service to points in the scenic New York Harbor, along the Hudson and East rivers; And CibaVision/Freshlook, where the freedom to change, enhance or illuminate your eye color is just a blink away.



About The BK Style Foundation
The Brooklyn Style Foundation is non-profit organization created to nurture the talent of Brooklyn youth who desire a career in the fashion industry. The Foundation will act as an incubator for emerging design, providing funding and business counseling for talent, as well as build interest in careers in the corporate side of fashion; in this way, the Foundation hopes to nurture a successful, indigenous fashion industry in Brooklyn, one that gives rise to a new batch of entrepreneurs, stimulates the local economy, and most importantly, provides at-risk members of the community (particularly youth) with a new sense of drive and purpose.

For more information on Brooklyn Fashion Week(end)or The BK Style Foundation, visit: www.bkfashionweekend.com