This year is no exception for the annual fashion show. The fashion design and merchandising classes are once again designing their own clothes for models to strut on the runway. The theme is based off and around Cirque du Soleil, a canadian circus group well known world wide. The fashion show is scheduled for April 21 at 7 p.m.

The outfits for the models are wearing are handmade by the Fashion 2 class and collections by the Fashion 3 class. Senior, Caitlyn Hicks commented, “The themes of the Cirque du Soleil shows through our garments,” Hicks continues, “Feel as though you can see the story they express through acrobatics, but with fabric, needle, and thread.”

Michelle Kim, junior, goes more in depth with the theme stating, “We are doing four different shows to showcase human evolution, animals, the four elements (water, fire, air, earth), and then Chinese warfare.” The themes involve a good deal of diversity to portray what fashion is about ethnically and showing the different meanings behind the clothes being modeled.

The show’s expectant turnout is around 300 people and aims to showcase the clothes to a large audience and receive a larger audience than last year’s show. The planning going into the show is far from effortless. Months of preparation went into the show with the planning, casting of models, and of course the hand stitching of the outfits.

Junior, Chloe Eichenauer added, “It should be a great show, we started preparations months in advance and everyone looks great so far.”