ACU’s spring fashion show is accepting applications for leadership positions until Nov. 23.
The show’s organizers are Whitney Puckett, senior Ad/PR major from Melbourne, Fla., Elizabeth Coffee, senior Ad/PR major from San Antonio, and Preston Watkins, junior Ad/PR major from Manassas, Va. Applications are due Nov. 23, and interviews will begin the week classes resume after Thanksgiving break.
The fashion show provides students the opportunity to build their résumés by helping to plan a campus event. Coffee said they want to bring talents from different departments together and help the students prepare for the interview processes they will encounter after graduation.
“It is a great opportunity for students to interview with their peers before they go into the professional market,” Coffee said. “They will be able to present their portfolio and practice personal selling around students their own age.”
They will accept applications for positions in advertising, public relations, management, finance, fashion, visual communication and graphic design. Each team will consist of a manager and between three and five team members, Puckett said.
“We chose to have managers and delegate the work so that students will have a lot of freedom to bring in their own ideas,” Puckett said.
Proceeds from the show will be donated to Eternal Thread’s Red Thread Movement, which provides employment for girls who have been rescued from sex trafficking in Nepal, funds a safe house for victims and establishes border units along the Nepal-India border, according to the organization’s website.
Puckett said the show benefits a nonprofit organization every year and gives students a chance to use their creativity and talents to benefit organizations like Eternal Threads.
“We always support some sort of nonprofit with the fashion show each year,” Puckett said. “Fashion can be used for good and purposeful reasons – it doesn’t have to be superficial or fake.”
Applications are available in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication Office, Room 300 in the Don Morris Center. More information will be provided at the Red Thread Movement Chapel forum Tuesday night.
