Pride Magazine Fashion Show Coming Fall Semester 2008 As an organization purposed to represent the Black Community of UVA, we want to provide a chance for people of all shapes and sizes in the community to model clothing that is reflective of the creativity we have to offer our University and the greater community. We recognize that the Black Community has many looks and figures and we hope to capture the essence of this variety in our show. In addition, we want to put on a show that is truly about high fashion and tasteful in its display of the human body. In short, we will create a show that has been like nothing before seen at the University of Virginia. Pride enjoyed its most successful turnout for last semester's show and we hope that you will join us again next semester! Motif Incognito, Fall 2007 Fashion shows at the University of Virginia are popular and, last year, we hosted our first annual fashion show, entitled Paparazzi. Paparazzi was a combination of cultural education and entertainment, featuring apparel and accessories from over 12 stores in the local area and various performing arts groups at the University. This year, however, we want to raise the bar for fashion shows at the University by producing a New York Runway Fashion show inspired event. This year's annual fashion show, entitled Motif Incognito, will project the elements of couture, ingenuity, and distinction that is the foundation of esteemed shows such as the Victoria Secret Fashion Show, DSquared Fashion Show, and others alike them. The title of the show hints at the center principle of which the fashion show will emit. To elaborate, models take on an alter ego of overt confidence and décor when taking the runway which allows for the best presentation of the clothes of which they model and thus, mask their identity becoming incognito. Hence, the phrase Motif Incognito describes the art of alter persona that fashion effects upon a person. Keeping in mind the central mission of our organization, "to honestly portray the talents, goals, and aspects of the African, African-American, and Caribbean students at the University and in Charlottesville," the show will not only reflect phenomena of the disguise of fashion, but will also portray Black culture in its ostentatious element of fashion featuring designs from student designers, stores in the Charlottesville community, and outside urban inspired designers from the Richmond and D.C. areas.