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Area Designers Are The Focus Of 2015 New Mexico Fashion Week

www.newmexicofashionweek.com/

Designer and educator Melissa Lea Beasley wants to build a fashion industry here in New Mexico.  Melissa and the organization she founded, the Albuquerque Apparel Center, have invited designers and fashion professionals from around the state, and around the country, to the Albuquerque Convention Center on March 25-29 for the second annual New Mexico Fashion Week

One of the goals of Fashion Week, Melissa says, is to bring area designers together with the public and potential buyers.

In this longer version of the conversation, Melissa talks about some of the public events planned for Fashion Week, including a fashion expo, a runway show featuring ten designers, and a collaborative exhibit, "Fashion as Art."

20150314NewMexicoFashionWeekLongVersion.mp3

Spencer Beckwith reports on the arts for KUNM. For ten years, until March of 2014, Spencer was the producer and host of KUNM's "Performance New Mexico," a weekday morning arts program that included interviews with musicians, writers and performers. Spencer is a graduate of the acting program at the Juilliard School, and, before moving to New Mexico in 2002, was for many years a professional actor based in New York City.