NOVA Fashion Week — Northern Virginia Fashion Week

NOVA — Northern Virginia Fashion Week — closes the United States guide's city list, and its mission statement is carried in the record below: to enhance the fashion industry by showcasing new designers and seamstresses, models and photographers, hair and makeup artists, families and fans, while paying homage to those who have paved the way. The event examines the intricacies of style and design while embracing and promoting individuality, with international designers on a platform the record describes as creating greater local economic opportunities.

The page's exploration list keeps the event's launch trail: the February 2009 launch article, 'The Birth of a New Dynasty', and the April 2009 recaps of the February 2009 edition, designer by designer — Azucar, Emore J Couture, Isolda Couture, Leonche, Mirza Mperial, Nyamal Both, Pat McGhee, Ray Brown, Stella Bonds and Street Star Clothing.

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

A New Dynasty in Northern Virginia

NOVA's arranger is named in the record: DEMOU'R Incorporated, described as a full-service, avant-garde event planning and promotions boutique firm dedicated to serving corporate, social and political trendsetters — a Washington-area client list if ever there was one. The week's launch language matched it: 'The Birth of a New Dynasty' is a grand claim for a first edition, and the ten designer recaps that followed show the claim being worked out name by name.

NOVA stands in this guide as Washington's second fashion week record, just outside the District whose own DC Fashion Week page reports an audience of over 10 million — the satellite week, launched in the capital's orbit in 2009.