This year’s Her Universe Fashion Show will be the biggest and best show to date, celebrating 5 years of being the premier “geek couture” event, hosted by actress, as well as author, and founder of Her Universe Ashley Eckstein. She is planned to premier a special gown created by 2013 fashion show winner, Andrew MacLaine. If this is anything like what we saw of last year, it is truly to be magical.
The doors open at 5:15pm. 7/19/2018 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel in San Diego
This year’s Her Universe Fashion Show is presented by Her Universe, Hot Topic and Loungefly in partnership with BoxLunch, Cartoon Network, SINGER® Sewing Company and Zenni Optical.
This year, three winners will be awarded the opportunity to design a collection with Her Universe and Loungefly for Hot Topic – a judges’ winner, audience choice winner and, for the first time, a SINGER® Sewing Company winner chosen for excellent sewing and construction. This is a change from previous years, however there were three winners last year due to a tie for audience favorite.
Also this year, a youth category will be added for the first time. the theme of this competition will be Power Puff Girls.
Judges this year will include Cindy Levitt, the Senior Vice President of Licensing for Hot Topic, Todd Keller, Merchandising Manager for Loungefly, Joanna Fogt-Sohn, Senior Creative Director for Licensing and Merchandising at Cartoon Network, Olivia Mears, SINGER® Sewing Ambassador, who creates wearable art using unconventional materials and is known for her “food fashion,” Jane Francisco, Editor-In-Chief of Good Housekeeping and 2017 Her Universe Fashion Show winners Rose Ivy, Grace Duval and Lindsay Orndorff.
The line created by last year’s winners will be premiered on the runway at this year’s show, as well as other new lines of “fangirl fashion,” and fandom wear for everyone. These new lines were in the planning phases during Wondercon 2018 and we got a peek at them during the Her Universe Fashion Show Update.
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