Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and non-profit INTERFORM will be collaborating for a one-day event on November 12 featuring fashion designers from the EMERGE designer residency program alongside curators and scholars as they discuss social and environmental issues related to fashion and its connection to arts and culture.

The educational programming will be open to the public during the day at the museum, followed by an exclusive evening of ticketed runway shows at Northwest Arkansas Fashion Week presented by INTERFORM.

For the Fall 2022 fashion week season, INTERFORM presents the “Model Citizen” campaign to promote civic engagement, highlighting important democratic information and voter registration on the heels of the upcoming November 8 election.

Here’s a preview of the day’s programming below. For more information and to purchase tickets, head to Interform.art.

Panel 1: Changing Assumptions on Color’s Relationship to Gender with Dr. Lisa Corrigan and Aubrey Costello; moderated by Xuxa Rodriguez

Panel 2: The Influence of Costume Design on Fashion with Joyce Modglin and Israel Rios; moderated by Stace Treat

Panel 3: Religious Architecture as Fashion Inspiration with Stephanie Hubert and Lilli Martin; moderated by Xuxa Rodriguez

Panel 4: Diverse Cultures and Their Influence on American Fashion with Basana Chhetri, Melissa Laelan of ACOM, Abwe Abedi, Zawadi Lukoko, Faida Deborah, Merely Mack, and Terry Takamura; moderated by Hannah Lee of Canopy

Panel 5: Conventional Standards of Beauty in the Fashion and Cosmetics Industries with Sonia Spinx of Walmart Beauty, Laura Pratt of Crystal Bridges, and Natalie Cruz; moderated by Xuxa Rodriguez

Panel 6: Fashion and Sustainability…Can the two truly co-exist? with Abby Hollis, Dr. Lance Cheramie, and Darcy Harris; moderated by Stace Treat