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ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ arts and business students will present the sixth annual ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Fashion Week, April 19-21. The event will feature a panel discussion with fashion industry representatives, a launch party for the second issue of ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½’s fashion magazine and a spring fashion show. Begun in 2012 and produced primarily by students interested in careers within the trillion-dollar international fashion industry, ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Fashion Week has grown along with the nearly six-year-old fashion media program, part of the Division of Journalism at ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½’s Meadows School of the Arts.

Fashion Week events, all of which are free and open to the public, are as follows:

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19: Fashion Industry Panel Discussion

Five panelists representing different segments of the fashion industry, including four alumni, will discuss the ways fashion and fashion media have evolved since ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½’s first Fashion Week in 2012. Panelists include Courtney Kerr, fashion blogger and influencer; Nicole Musselman ’92, fashion designer and founder of the KOCH clothing brand; Meg Jones ’12, co-founder of the online brand To & From Gifts; Shelby Foster ’13, public relations manager at NorthPark ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½; and Grace Davis Damrill ’12, associate beauty buyer for Forty Five Ten. Jones, Foster and Damrill founded ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Fashion Week in 2012.

Details: Panel 5-6:30 p.m.; reception 6:30-7 p.m. in the Taubman Atrium of the Owen Arts ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ campus (Dallas 75205)

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THURSDAY, APRIL 20: Magazine Launch Party

Fashion media students host a party to launch the second edition of ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Look: Hilltop Fashion & Style, the student-produced fashion magazine.

Details: 6:30 p.m. at The Impeccable Pig boutique, 6607 Hillcrest Ave., Suite 100 (Dallas 75205)

FRIDAY, APRIL 21: Spring Fashion Show

The Retail Club at Cox School of Business will present their annual spring fashion show. This year’s show will feature fashions presented by NorthPark ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½. The event will also include a raffle.

Details: 2 p.m. at the fountain outside Dallas Hall, 3225 University Blvd. on the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ campus. The show will be on the lawn of the main quad outside Dallas Hall.

Public parking is available at the Binkley Parking Garage at the corner of Binkley Avenue and Airline Road on the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ campus. Visit here for parking details.

For more information, contact Camille Kraeplin, director of the fashion media program in the Meadows School Division of Journalism, at 214-768-3431 or kraeplin@smu.edu.