Baltimore Fashion Week

Baltimore Fashion Week was created to celebrate the collective talent of local artists and designers, by bringing the region's fashion and arts communities together — the founding statement carried in the record below. Its aim, in its own words, is a vibrant fashion community where designers thrive, supporting the rise of Baltimore's creative class with a showcase for one-of-a-kind fashions.

The record also keeps the event's news trail: the August 2010 designer line-up article and the March 2011 tickets-on-sale article are linked in the exploration list, and the August 2009 photographs are linked among the references — a three-season arc of a young regional week finding its audience.

Illustrative image created for this guide — an artistic impression, not photographs from these shows.

A Community Fashion Week

Baltimore's founding idea is the community one. Where Phoenix frames its week as a bridge to national retailers and media, Baltimore frames its own as a gathering of the region's own artists and designers first — the showcase exists so that local talent can be seen together, in its home city, by the community that produced it. One-of-a-kind fashions are the natural programme of such an event: independent designers showing singular work rather than wholesale collections.

The photograph carried on this page is the event's own published image, kept at its existing address, and the event's own site is linked among the references for current information. Maryland readers will also find the state's fashion coverage through this page's links: Baltimore's week was the region's fashion flagship in these years, and its 2009 photographs, linked here, show the event as its audiences saw it — local designers on a home runway, in front of the community the week was created to gather.

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