Omaha Fashion Week 2024: Design Powerhouses Ramp-up the Runway

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     Luxury. Glamour. Innovation. Audacity. Omaha Fashion Week 2024 was willing to share these attributes with us to the maximum during the Audacious Season. Designers from a litany of distinct and fascinating backgrounds converged at the Omaha Design Center for four nights of  expressive and evocative designs that will stay in our memory well past this event. This year consisted of four nights with the following themes: Student Night designers, Bold designers, Brazen designers and Brilliant designers. Each collection reflected the arduous labor and passion imbued within by its creator. Below is only a small sampling of the endless amount of dazzling menswear and women's wear put out by the week's selected designers. 

NIGHT ONE: STUDENT NIGHT

  




      






OFW 2024 Student Night was the premier event of this Audacious Season. Student Night provides an opportunity to local high school and college students to display their designs on the main stage. Designers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Blue Bird Cultural Initiative, FCCLA, and Nebraska 4-H displayed the talent and skills of aspiring designers who want to get their voice and message out to the world. The collection of images shows the diversity of construction, inspiration, and symbolism that each designer on night one brought out to OFW. 

NIGHT TWO: BOLD DESIGNERS

Continuing our event with the bold night, where a new batch of designers use their adventuring minds to create pieces that battle against the normal conventions of fashion and how we should wear clothing in the day to day. The selection below encapsulates rich designs that steer fashion away from convention and into an unexplored territory. Designs featured come from Studio Rae, House of Chelette, I'm Hooked on Stuffies, and Yet Luxxe.

   



NIGHT THREE: BRAZEN DESIGNERS
    Night three transported guests into a world where diverse fashion takes were able to draw from similar themes and still imbue unique visions into pieces with similar construction underneath. Designer Meena Pittman of Cardiovascuwhore does this by taking pieces that have the construction of tradition womenswear, and ripping the life out of them. While graphic, the designer does this with a purpose. The intent of these grungy, gashed garments is to display the true nature of being a woman in modern society. To her, the best way to show true feminity is to bare all your insides to the world. This is just a sampling of the innovation and creativity that ran all throughout the minds of the Brazen Designers of OFW 2024.  

    





 








   
 
 
                   

NIGHT FOUR: BRILLIANT DESIGNERS

Our capstone Saturday event was the perfect finale to a dazzling showcase of designers. Brilliant night designers managed to bring the audacious theme to its pinnacle with provocative, elegant designs. On this night, guests were treated to chromatic renditions of garments that displayed the tenacity and skill of the selected designers. 















        




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