Houston-style star Chloe Dao is as soon as once more placing Houston’s style scene on the map, this time with a runway that is all about sustainability. The Venture Runway season two winner is teaming up with Macy’s, ACE NextGen, and Houston Group School for the Sustainable Trend Venture. This design competitors challenges rising expertise to rework discarded supplies into stylish, wearable designs.
The style showdown hits the runway Saturday, September 27, at Macy’s in The Galleria from 11 am to 1 pm. The primary 50 style followers by way of the door will rating a $10 Macy’s reward card, whereas finalists will battle it out for money and prizes totaling greater than $2,000.
For Dao, who labored at Macy’s early in her profession, studied at HCC, and now mentors by way of ACE NextGen, the challenge seems like a full-circle second. “On the coronary heart of this collaboration is supporting creativity and particularly rising designers,” says Dao. “All of us share a pure must create, and this competitors is such a significant alternative to nurture and problem that inventive spirit.”
Individuals on this yr’s Sustainable Trend Venture will compete for money prizes totaling greater than $2,000. Picture courtesy of Chloe Dao
Dao will sit on the judges’ panel, the place she’s in search of greater than surface-level styling. “A sustainable problem requires deeper thought. It asks you to take one thing that already exists and utterly remodel it,” Dao tells CultureMap. “I do not wish to acknowledge the unique materials. I wish to see a wearable, trendy, fantastically constructed design with actual craftsmanship within the design and execution.”
The competitors underscores Macy’s Mission Each One pledge, which leans into sustainability, illustration, and group influence. However for Dao, it is also about displaying that Houston’s creatives can maintain their very own on a bigger stage. “True creativity emerges if you’re pushed past the norm,” she says.
Designers can submit eco-conscious entries by way of September 19 for an opportunity to snag the highlight and show that type and sustainability can stroll the identical runway. Extra info and attendee registration particulars can be found right here.
