There are no more ardent model groupies than the parents of child models. And there were plenty of parents at the Children's Place fashion show at the AMF Chelsea Piers Lanes for the kids clothing retailer's Fashion Week event.
Children's Place vice president of marketing Jodi Barone, marketing manager Andrea McClarren and Dogmatic creative director Laurel Harris produced the event inside the bowling center's concession area. Showman Fabricators built a stark, white open square runway made of white acrylic and striped with color tubes usually used as gels for florescent lights. A pit full of colorful plastic balls filled the center of the runway. (The pit was only a decorative element-none of the child models let loose and dove in during the show.)
While some of the kiddie models found the smooth acrylic runway a bit slippery wearing brand-new shoes, most happily paraded the outfits designed by Nina Miner, Children's Place senior vice president of design—which ranged from preppy to sporty to very dressy—in front of a crowd of attendees seated on aluminum bleaches that flanked both sides of the runway.
An after-party followed the show inside the center's arcade, with games and kid-friendly catering that included hamburgers, hot dogs, and taquitos, but no bowling.
—Suzanne Ito
Children's Place vice president of marketing Jodi Barone, marketing manager Andrea McClarren and Dogmatic creative director Laurel Harris produced the event inside the bowling center's concession area. Showman Fabricators built a stark, white open square runway made of white acrylic and striped with color tubes usually used as gels for florescent lights. A pit full of colorful plastic balls filled the center of the runway. (The pit was only a decorative element-none of the child models let loose and dove in during the show.)
While some of the kiddie models found the smooth acrylic runway a bit slippery wearing brand-new shoes, most happily paraded the outfits designed by Nina Miner, Children's Place senior vice president of design—which ranged from preppy to sporty to very dressy—in front of a crowd of attendees seated on aluminum bleaches that flanked both sides of the runway.
An after-party followed the show inside the center's arcade, with games and kid-friendly catering that included hamburgers, hot dogs, and taquitos, but no bowling.
—Suzanne Ito
Kid models in Children's Place dresses and faux wings posed for attendees at the Children's Place fashion show at the AMF Chelsea Piers Lanes.
Showman Fabricators built a stark, white open square runway made of white acrylic and striped with color tubes usually used as gels for florescent lights. A pit full of colorful plastic balls filled the center of the runway.
Attendees sat on aluminum bleaches that flanked both sides of the runway.
