The latest blog posts on the Midwest's Premier Fashion Event.
Omaha Fashion Week is proud to present a new partner to our showcases, Millard Sewing Center. We take pride in the integrity of our partnerships with locally owned businesses that uplift the fashion community. Millard Sewing Center is our newest addition to our OFW family, with their generous contribution to our Golden Sheers Awards packages given to one lucky winner from the Emerging and Featured designer categories each season.
We sat down with our incredibly talented Editorial Beauty Director, Alia Jackson, the mastermind behind the beauty of Omaha Fashion Week’s editorial campaigns, to find out what it takes to make a career out of your passions.
Omaha Fashion Week makes it a priority to support our local arts scenes here in Omaha in every way we can. Every season we work with our incredibly talented Music Director, Keith Rodger ( aka KETHRO) to ensure our line up of DJs stays fresh. We are so proud to be highlighting our ALL FEMALE lineup of DJs for Omaha Fashion Week Fall 2024 VERUS Season!
Omaha Fashion Week is thrilled to welcome back FotoFunSpot as our official red-carpet photographer!
Cover Photo Designer | Sommer by Somerville, Models | Develop Model Management
Thank you to KETV for always having such an incredible team to work with during our Omaha Fashion Week showcases!
Omaha Fashion Week is proud to welcome back, Milan Laser Hair Removal, our official sponsor of the red carpet experience and runway this season. Milan Laser offers luxury hair removal services by body area, instead of session.
In partnership with Omaha Fashion Week, Milan Laser Hair Removal offers one lucky winner…
Omaha Fashion Week is lifting the veil and showing off behind the scenes in our Fall 2024 VERUS Season. This season's designers draw inspiration from the natural world and repurposed materials while exploring themes of community and cultural heritage.
Check out the full lineup for each night of designer showcases…
Giving back to our designers each season is a nonnegotiable for our team, which is why we’ve implemented many programs over the years to aid their ability to grow their brands, in hopes of sustaining a viable career in fashion.
One example of these programs is our Designer Kickback program, which we started 10 years ago…
Cover Photo | Michael Pysh
OFW is thrilled to announce that 7 of our designers for the Fall ‘24 Season will receive grants from the OFW Investor’s Circle. The Investor’s Circle was started in December 2023 by former OFW Producer Brook Hudson and OFW Casting Director Alyssa Dilts. This season we raised ~$3,500 to give to our designers, equaling 7 total grants for the season.
If you’ve spent time backstage or appreciated the impact of a full designer look on the OFW Runway, then you’re probably acquainted with SOHO Hair Academy. As a proud partner of OFW’s Beauty Alliance, SOHO leads a team of passionate student and professional artists in producing hair and makeup for the runway!
Cover Photo | PoloMutt
During our Spring 2024 season, former producer, Brook Hudson, and Owner of Develop Model Management, Alyssa Dilts, launched a brand-new program inside of Omaha Fashion Week to support designers as they move through the seasons of our showcases. The Investor’s Circle is a public funding pool where anyone can donate any amount that will go directly into the pockets of our designers.
We asked a few of last season’s grant recipients how it impacted their work and how they feel about the new program. Here’s what they said…
Omaha Fashion Week is lifting the veil and showing off behind the scenes in our Fall 2024 VERUS Season. So often, models are transformed into the visions of others, now we honor their ability to inspire us as they are. This season's designers draw inspiration from the natural world and repurposed materials while exploring themes of community and cultural heritage.
Our friends at Develop Model Management are hosting the Scouted Model Contest again this season for models who walked in the Spring 2024 AUDACIOUS season of Omaha Fashion Week. Of the hundreds of models that walked the Omaha Fashion Week runway in February, 28 models were selected as finalists for the Scouted Contest based on their final pictures from the runway. Only one model can win, and that’s where you come in!
CALLING ALL MODELS! Omaha Fashion Week’s Spring 2024 Model Call is June 15th, 2024, in Omaha!
Our friends at Develop Model Management will be there to aid in the selection process. Find out all the info you need to know to get prepared for Model Call below!
***PLEASE READ THE FULL EVENT DESCRIPTION FOR IMPORTANT CHANGES TO CASTING
We are thrilled to bring back our latest designer equity program where YOU can support the prosperity of designers every season at Omaha Fashion Week.
Former OFW Producer Brook Hudson and Casting Director and Owner of Develop Model Management, Alyssa Dilts, invite YOU to support our local designers! These two long-time friends have collaborated for many years on programs that enrich the Omaha fashion scene. They share a passion for supporting designers in the earliest stage of their development which has led to collaborations such as Omaha Fashion Camp, and now the OFW Investor’s Circle.
Omaha Fashion Week wrapped the AUDACIOUS season by focusing on fashion-for-good. The Omaha Design Center proudly hosted 34 emerging and featured designers, 4 headliners, 80 looks from high school programs, 92 looks from students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 702 looks over all 4 nights, and 252 models on the runway this season! Omaha did not disappoint, with 2,700+ attendees showing their support over the four days.
Throughout the week…
