Pixs: Ken Downing Curates a Spectacular Fashion Show To Benefit Philly Fights Cancer

Ken Downing, a modern icon of the fashion industry, as well as Senior Vice  President and Fashion Director of Neiman Marcus presented “The Art of  Fashion.” The evening featured a cocktail hour hosted by fine jewelry designer Dena Kemp, followed by a lively dinner and fashion show on an expansive  outdoor runway starring supermodel Pat Cleveland. Neiman Marcus will be  showing a preview of spring and early fall looks in womenswear and menswear.  100% of proceeds from the event will be donated to Philly Fights Cancer to benefit Abramson Cancer Center’s translational research and clinical trials.
Philly Fights Cancer – Round 3 will take place on Saturday, October 28, 2017. Last year the entertainment included Lionel Ritchie and Jennifer Hudson, soon they’ll announce this years entertainment.

Bryna,Fred & Blair Berman

Ellyn Saft, Suzi Gerber and Barbara Ellick

Steven & Jill Grossman
Lynn Tractman,Kelsey Harvey,Robin Federiconi
Nancy Wolfson and Missy Dietz
Jeff Glass and Marc Brownstein
Nigel Richards and Nicole Cashman

Dena Kenip, Huyon Hwang in back-David Harcourt

Latisha Boyd

After the cocktail hour guests headed over to a large tent for the sit down dinner and fashion show

Debuting nearly 20 years ago, The Art of Fashion was a revolutionary campaign,  designed to feature cutting-edge fashion and provocative photography.  In recent  years, the Art of Fashion concept has been brought to life for customers to  experience in store.

Caterer was Neuman’s Kitchen, out of NY. They are just coming to the Philadelphia market, and I believe this was there first large scale event in the area.
The floral and decor inside of the store was done by our in-house visual team, and the tent/table floral were done by Evantine.

Thanks to PhillyChitChat photographer Andre Flewellen for capturing the photos from the nights event.

the clothes are from collections representing spring/summer and pre-fall. Everything that was in the show was pulled from the store!
Backdrop for the stage was by King Saladeen, who is a graffiti artist from West Philly. One of his best friends passed away from cancer, so the cause if very close to his heart.

Ken Downing always does a spectacular event at curating fashion shows. Sorry I had to miss his description of the show.
He always deliciously describes the clothes.