Last night, Frist's South Lawn was buzzing with hyped up music, dance performances, strobe lights, and of course runway fashion during Service in Style's 2nd annual Charity Fashion Show. The show, "Fusion" was held to raise money for The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ).
Service in Style is a newly formed student organization dedicated to uniting fashion and charity through performance fundraisers. Founder and current president of the organization, Cyrena Chih '05, initiated the 1st charity production last April, the first Annual Charity Fashion Show. It was the most attended student-run event, drawing 600 audience members.
While last year's show was sponsored by several national organizations and benefited the American Cancer Society, this year the show was much more localized. Sponsors included the Projects Board, ODUS, Frist Campus Center, Molecular Biology Department, Black Student Union, and Center for Jewish Life. All proceeds from the event are being donated to a state facility, CINJ. "This year we have more people working, more sponsors, and more male models," said Laura Perlman '05, Chair of the Business Committee. "We hope to keep on expanding."
Camille Gray '05 and Mara Weinstein '05 were the Co-Chairs for the event, with Gray handling sponsorship and Weinstein in charge of production. Putting the event together was a "long, long process that began this fall," said Weinstein. "All the jobs were divided and it was a joint effort by many people."
During the show models sported donated fashions from a variety of sponsors, including Adidas, XOXO, Guess, Laundry, Tommy Hilfiger, as well as local Nassau Street businesses such as bluemercury, Smith Bros., and Paradise Lost. "Fusion" was fitting title for the show, as it was an amalgamation of resources, efforts, donations, and hard work from a variety of sources. The show consisted not only of runway fashions, but also performances from dance groups on campus, and during intermission, a rap freestyle competition and Stephanie Grospe, a speaker from CINJ.
Grospe gave many alarming statistics about cancer in the US and particularly in New Jersey. "The war against cancer is particularly important in New Jersey, a state that ranks in the top ten nationally for cancer incidence. If it wasn't for your support and generosity we would not be able to conquer this disease," Grospe said. "You are all definitely beautiful people both inside and out."
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