Designer and champ Jesli Banks from MTV’s Sean John: Internship by Design competition, will accomplice with adolescent acceptable finalists Jason Santiago and Graehme Field to admission “Menage A Trois”, an edgy, cornball and flora fauna appearance during New York’s Fashion Week. The appearance appearance takes abode Thursday, September 11, 2008 at HK Lounge at 8pm.
“Winning the Internship by Design Competition and alive with Diddy has been a dream appear true,” says Banks. “I in actuality adulation Diddy, his adroitness and adherence to Sean John. I've abstruse how to actualize a angry accumulating while blockage accurate to my vision. Now I ambition to accomplish history!”
Jesli Banks’ new Berkli Collection Spring/Summer 2009 Nos·tal·gia band will be the show-stopping finale. Banks’ beginning accumulating is tie-dye aggressive with abounding cottony chiffons, glassy charmeuse, anatomy acquainted brownish leathers and boasts active colors. The clothes are feminine and nostalgic, with awakening appeal.
Joining Jesli to actualize the “Menage a Trois” are collections by Jason Santiago and Graehme Field, who were aswell acceptable finalists in the MTV/Sean John Intern By Design competition. Jason’s Spring/ Summer 2009: anxious accumulating symbolizes a absorption of his personality, agreeableness and edge. It combines delicacy with a aberration of street, with apple tones and a bit of urban, alloyed with glam.
Graehme Field’s Fall/Winter 2009: Flora Fauna For Fall accumulating is based on the abstraction of bond elements from summer into a fall/ winter collection. The collection’s affair is echoed in the hundreds of duke cut flowers, anniversary artfully abiding on assertive pieces. Fabrications are blubbery felts and woolens alternating with some actual feminine fabrics. “Femininity and beautification is the key!”, says Graehme.
The appearance begins promptly at 8pm, Thursday, September 11th at H.K. Lounge, 523 Ninth Avenue, New York City.
About The Designers
Jesli Banks is a Detroit built-in and a alum of Michigan State University. She advised at the Fashion Institute of Technology and landed an internship with New York designers Joanna Mastrioanni and Olga Kapustina. In 2006 she abutting the Ebony Fashion Fair bout as a apparel stylist from 2006-2007. Jesli is the champ of the MTV/Sean John: Intern By Design antagonism and is currently interning at Sean John. The accumulating can be apparent at www.myberkli.com.
Jason Santiago was complete and aloft in the streets of the Bronx. His mother and grandmother accurate his accustomed architecture aptitude and absolute him with acuteness and charm. Jason accelerating from the New York Art Institute.
Graehme Field, a Rhode Island native, grew up in a flannel shirt boondocks with dreams of the big city-limits and the celebrated appearance industry. After a scholarship and a year at The Art Institute of New York City he was called for The Sean John Internship By Design, an MTV absoluteness show. He currently works with clandestine barter and sells some of his accouterment at Karma, a bazaar in Boston, Mass.
ABOUT H.K. LOUNGE
H.K. Lounge amid on 39th and 9th Avenue. It has adapted the bounded across of Hell’s Kitchen from a abode of comestible abeyance to a hot atom ambitious everyone’s attention.
H.K. is a multi-faceted area that appearance a ambience for every event; from its ultramodern, minimalist restaurant with calm and alfresco dining; to its abutting clandestine lounge, baking and sophisticated; to zen aggressive windowless rooftop bar overlooking all of Manhattan. For added advice appointment www.hellskitchen.com.
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