Dazzling styles sim­i­lar to the rich and famous will be fea­tured at the 22^nd Annual You Beautiful Black Woman (YBBW) Fashion Show, Saturday April 14^th.

YBBW and fees allo­cated by the Finance Division of Student Government will be host­ing this free event in Williams Auditorium at 6 p.m.

The theme for this year’s show is Hollywood. Styles from Detroit area bou­tiques such as Umail, Shophista Boutique, and Head over Heels will be fea­tured, as well as local fash­ion from Maurice’s, Ferris State University Book Store and Shirts Etc. There will also be an acces­sory designer fea­tured, Glitz by Keisha, who is from Grand Rapids.

Tenique Tatum, Ferris junior in health care sys­tems admin­is­tra­tion and this year’s chair of the event said, “The fash­ion show means a lot to the peo­ple involved. They get a chance to show off their per­son­al­ity while on stage.”

This year’s show will be dif­fer­ent from years past. Not only will it fea­ture dif­fer­ent bou­tiques, but it will also have three per­for­mances by Mic Smitty and two hip-hop artists from the Detroit area, SayItAintTone and DoughBoyz Cashout.

Krispy Kream, a stu­dent come­dian from Saginaw Valley State University, and Dominique Roby, Ferris senior in health care sys­tems admin­is­tra­tion will be host­ing this year’s event.

The YBBW Fashion Show started when mem­bers wanted to dis­play their fash­ion in front of their Ferris com­mu­nity. It has been an ongo­ing event because it has been a great oppor­tu­nity for stu­dents to show­case their fash­ion in front of other students.

Joy Haley, senior in health care sys­tems admin­is­tra­tion and pres­i­dent of YBBW said, “The mem­bers of the orga­ni­za­tion have kept this going for 22 years because it has always been some­thing for stu­dents to look for­ward to. It is a way to bring all orga­ni­za­tions together and stu­dents that are not a part of organizations.”

This year YBBW has 50 stu­dents par­tic­i­pat­ing as mod­els. There are also 20 stu­dents from YBBW who will be work­ing behind the scenes.

“This gives the stu­dents a boost of con­fi­dence and also a chance to have fun on stage and be a part of a very huge event,” Haley said.

Not only will this be a very glam­orous event, but it will also be a great night of enter­tain­ment. YBBW expects to have a great turn out.

“This year the show is free admis­sion. So there’s no excuse not to come check it out,” Haley said. “Last year we had over 500 peo­ple attend, and we hope to have more since it’s the evening of the Big Event.”
Tatum is also look­ing for­ward to a sim­i­lar outcome.

“A lot of work has gone into plan­ning this event from find­ing design­ers to mak­ing sure the dec­o­ra­tions are per­fect,” Tatum said. “I hope to get every stu­dent on cam­pus to the event as well as for the peo­ple involved to have an amaz­ing time.”

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