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Durango’s original fashion forum – TOP – is calling aspiring and accomplished designers to submit entries for its third annual juried garment design exhibition and fundraiser to benefit the Durango Arts Center. Sponsored by First National Bank of Durango, this year’s fashion show, live and silent auctions will be at the Arts Center, September 21.

“We are encouraging artists to submit innovative, original fashion designed using the garments or blank fabric we provide,” explained Regina Hogan, TOP chair for New Face Productions, which is sponsoring this event designed to serve artists, residents and visitors in our community. “Our mission is to assist and create adult, cutting-edge, exciting and profitable benefit events for the DAC,” she added.

Artists may pick up garments or fabric May 4-5 or June 1-2, at There’s No Place Like Home, 820 Main Avenue. The prospectus is available here. Delivery deadline for finished garments is August 25.

Fees for first entries are $25 and $15 for additional entries. Students’ fees are $15 for the first entry and $10 for each additional. For the first time, this year TOP is offering limited number of sponsorships for students. Two People’s Choice Awards of $500 each also have been added.

All entries will be judged and accepted for the live auction and fashion show by a jury of noted fashion and textile designers, including Ilze Aviks, Susan Rogers and Becky Surmeier. Artists receive 50 percent of the auctioned price of their pieces.

For more information, contact Regina Hogan at (970) 385-4989 or top.nfp@gmail.com.

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Fashion-forward Durangoans can catch a glimpse of Big Apple styles when TOP presents the documentary film “Bill Cunningham New York” at the Back Space Theater, Thursday, May 3. Two showings, at 4 and 6:30 p.m., will be preceded by the screening of Durango’s own fashion scene as chronicled by local photographers Kyla Jenkinson and Wesley Sebern. Light snacks and TOP-tinis will be available for purchase before and after the shows.

Tickets, at $10 for adults and $5 for students, are available at whatshappeningdurango.com.

Iconic Bill Cunningham is best known for his regular columns “On the Street” and “Evening Hours” in The New York Times. For decades, this 80-something cyclist has been capturing uptown celebrities and downtown eccentrics in his inventive chronicles of fashion trends and high-society charity soirees. The 2010 award-winning documentary, directed by Richard Press, pays tribute not only to the man but to individualists of all ages.

Roger Ebert gave the film his highest rating of four stars, writing, “This movie made me happy every moment I was watching it.”

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