Okemos Fashion Show to benefit those who can not afford prom

  An abiding interest in fashion makes Shannon Harman single among his peers.

The Okemos High School, the fashion merchandising at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City to study this fall, shares his expertise to bring "Rock the Runway".

Inspiration for fashion charity came after a journey in 2012 by Harman and her classmates in New York, where she visited a store called Rent the Runway.

The company offers the hire designer dresses by famous names like Badgley Mischka for a fraction of the cost of their purchase.

"We met the ladies who started the company - there are four of them," Harman said.

The visit sparked the original idea of ​​Harman for his main project, which came on the track of rent and the show was. If this was not the case, Harman himself has organized with the help of his classmates.

"I thought ... it was such a good thing for our school to have, and to show that we really care about the community, and we want to help ensure that everyone has the chance (the ball)," she said.

Rock the Runway is the first chapter of the most successful fashion career for Harman. His teacher says he is no doubt.

"I think it is the motivated students I have ever had ... in every theme in my four years of teaching," Lindsay Harrod said the Okemos family and consumer sciences professor.

"You know, it's ready mode. Regardless of what school they went, it belongs to the city of New York. I can not wait to see where she goes in life, because I very, very good to know."

Once the show is over, Harman will make his attention to preparing for college. FIT, considered one of the best schools of its kind in the country, was his first choice.

She attended a summer session in 2012, and recalled completely sucked into the possibilities offered by the program.

Rock the Runway integrate the format of a fashion prom held previously in high school - and kicked up a notch.

The mother works at Henry Harman Center and was able to arrange for the donation of space for the show.

Many of his colleagues, junior and senior class went through fittings and rehearsals to the modeling of clothes to prepare for the show.

Many clothes donated local shops, including Macy's, Coco-the-shelf programs Kellie, marriage of David and more donations from individual cabinets. For boys there are tuxedos Men's Wearhouse given.

Some donations dresses are offered in a silent auction, so that parents the chance a dress and other items to win - gift cards for restaurants, for example - that would make for a great prom night.

Some jewelry is expected to be maintained even in the auction baskets, courtesy of a product from Stella + Dot jewelry as a collection of separate funds.