The First-Ever Equality Fashion Week Launches At The Opening Of The Newly Redesigned Montrose Hotel West Hollywood
by Heather Cassell
Los Angeles will see it’s first-ever Equality Fashion Week featuring local designers October 5 – 9.
Gender-bending and ethnically diverse models will kick-off the weeklong popup gender-bending fashions strutting down the catwalk atop the newly renovated and renamed Montrose Hotel West Hollywood at an exclusive fashion show Friday.
Actress and model Carmen Carrera will host the event produced by
The fashions will be accompanied by performances by DJ Amara, Windz, Queertet, and Mortasay.
The fashion show is a part of the 4-diamond luxury hotel’s grand reopening following a $15-million-dollar makeover and renaming from its former Le Montrose Suite Hotel. The hotel’s new image embodies the spirit of West Hollywood and the entertainment business that is Los Angeles’ emblem.
Keep an eye on Instagram, the invite-only fashion show will be livestreamed at @equalityfashionweek on Friday.
The show’s time wasn’t available at press time.
Equality Fashion Week will be open to the public 6 – 11 p.m., October 6 – 9 at the Montrose West Hollywood.
Fashionistas will be able to check out the designer’s lines during the Vino and Vinyl “Meet the Designers” PopUp events, 4 – 7 p.m. daily through October 9.
In its 75 years, since the first Fashion Week was launched in New York during World War II because fashionistas couldn’t get to Paris to shop at the private salon shows as they had since the 1800s, according to Fashion Week’s history.
During fashion’s seasonal unveilings around the
Nik, who is the founder and president of NiK Kacy Footwear, participated in many of these shows that happened from Oakland to New York.
Los Angeles-based NiK Kacy Footwear is a gender-equal and gender-free footwear and accessories enterprise and an LGBT-certified business.
Since his first queer fashion show, Nik dreamed of bringing something similar to Los Angeles, he told Girls That Roam.
“Ever since I started participating in these shows I wanted to bring one to Los Angeles,” said Nik, who is gender non-binary. Their designs reflect their personal identity and style.
Nik was inspired by the fashion week’s he participated in and Trans Latin@s Coalition’s annual November fashion show, the Ground Breaking Activism Redirecting and Reforming All Systems (GARRAS), they told Into More. Nik jumped at the opportunity to produce Equality Fashion Week and to partner with the transgender immigrant rights organization when the Montrose Hotel West Hollywood approached him to produce the show, he told Girls That Roam.
Trans Latin@s Coalition is a Los Angeles-based advocacy organization working on behalf of immigrant transgender Latinas residing in the United States.
Their goal with the inaugural fashion week is to create a venue for Los Angeles-based queer designers who don’t have the capital to enter traditional fashion weeks and to introduce these designers to the wider community.
Nik aspires to eventually turn the event into a standalone fashion week during the biannual fashion weeks in the fall in October and the spring in March.
Another key aspect of Nik’s design goal is activism. A portion of the proceeds from the event will benefit the Trans Latin@s Coalition, they said.
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