Behind the scenes with superstar fashion designers at Greenville Fashion Week

GREENVILLE, S.C. (WSPA) — With 27 shows on several runways, Greenville Fashion Week is spotlighting models and architects from across the united states.
“We had been the textile capital of the sector and now we’re transitioning into a present-day way, just to exhibit fashion on a real runway, the new york fashion, right downtown on Main Street,” co-executive director Megan Heinz says.
Backstage, fashion designer Laura Citron tells us 70s fashion is again in style. “Peasant attire is having a sincerely large moment right now,” she says. “They’re a throwback to prairie peasant style in the 70s.”
Her husband Andrew Clancy has designed for stars like Keisha, Beyonce, and Lady Gaga.
He’s debuting a state-of-the-art space-themed collection Saturday for his label Any Old Iron. Clancy says numerous of those will possibly be visible in tune videos or on magazine covers. “Half of this will go to my p.R.,” he says. “And then they may go to celebrities, so this is all the new stuff yet to be seen everywhere.”
This is the first style show for Harry Connick Jr.’s daughter Kate Connick, a 21-12 months-vintage former Furman University scholar who’s now a fashion designer.
“I initially began by means of the concept of rings and ribbons,” she says. “The rings represent humans and the ribbons represent a shared concept and connection… I’m leaning extra closer to streetwear and athleisure because it really is commonly some thing I like to put on more of.”
Her athleisure line changed into inspired via the ladies in her life, consisting of her mother Jill Goodacre, a former Victoria’s Secret model.
“She’s constantly designing,” Connick says. “We’re simply going to paintings collectively greater and sort of do this like a mom-daughter component in the future.”
Greenville Fashion Week occasions started Wednesday and are going on Friday at 5 pm and Saturday at 2 pm and 5 pm.
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