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Announcing OFW's Fall 2024 Golden Shears Award Winners

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Announcing OFW's Fall 2024 Golden Shears Award Winners

Designers competed nightly for prizes during Omaha Fashion Week Designer Showcases! Emerging Designers and Featured Designers were scored by an Omaha Fashion Week Selection Panel composed of Anthony Deon Brown, Brett Foster, Dan Ricters, Edelweiss Rothe, Jennie Mason, Jenny Pool, Kelli Molcyzk, and Kylin Flothe. The panelists scored designs based on the creativity and innovation of the collections and overall presentation. Each night, an Emerging Designer and a Featured Designer will walk away with prize money. Only one Emerging Designer and one Featured Designer will be the winners of our Grand Prize Packages!

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Announcing OFW's Spring 2024 Student Night Winners

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Announcing OFW's Spring 2024 Student Night Winners

During the Omaha Fashion Week Spring 2024 AUDACIOUS Season, we witnessed an incredibly full night of student designers from high school and college programs around Omaha, we were thoroughly impressed with the talent, creativity, and craftsmanship form this next generation of designers.

We are excited to announce the winners from Wednesday’s Metropolitan Community College Student Night and Thursday’s University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Student Night showcases!

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Announcing OFW's Spring 2024 Golden Shears Award Winners

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Announcing OFW's Spring 2024 Golden Shears Award Winners

Designers competed nightly for prizes during Omaha Fashion Week Designer Showcases! Emerging Designers and Featured Designers were scored by an Omaha Fashion Week Selection Panel composed of Anthony Deon Brown, Brett Foster, Dan Ricters, Edelweiss Rothe, Jennie Mason, Jenny Pool, Kelli Molcyzk, and Kylin Flothe. The panelists scored designs based on the creativity and innovation of the collections and overall presentation. Each night, an Emerging Designer and a Featured Designer will walk away with prize money. Only one Emerging Designer and one Featured Designer will be the winners of our Grand Prize Packages!

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Announcing OFW's Spring 2023 Student Night Winners

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Announcing OFW's Spring 2023 Student Night Winners

During the Omaha Fashion Week Spring 2023 DE PONTE Season, we witnessed two full nights of student designers from high school and college programs around Omaha, we were thoroughly impressed with the talent, creativity, and craftsmanship form this next generation of designers.

We are excited to announce the winners from Wednesday’s Metropolitan Community College Student Night and Thursday’s University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Student Night showcases!

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Announcing OFW's Spring 2023 Winners

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Announcing OFW's Spring 2023 Winners

Omaha Fashion Week wrapped the DE PONTE season celebrating 15 years of fashion from under the 10th St bridge, to the Omaha Design Center and everything in between. The Omaha Design Center proudly hosted 130 cancer survivors and 12 boutiques for Methodist’s Cancer Survivor Showcase, 7 high school programs presented by Metropolitan Community College, 64 looks from design students at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 27 emerging and featured designers, over 400 models, and Omaha Fashion Campers on the runway this season! Omaha did not disappoint, with over 4,000 attendees showing their support over the five days.

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OFW + Metro Community College = New Fashion Degree

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OFW + Metro Community College = New Fashion Degree

In late 2013 Nick and I were invited by Ellie Archer to a dinner party at Metro Community College's [MCC] Culinary School. At that time, we were like, "Wow.  Imagine if Metro had a fashion program like their culinary program - wouldn't that be cool?" In late April, after many years of meetings with the team at MCC, that crazy idea became reality when an associate's degree in fashion design was approved by the state board of education.

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