ESTEEM Fashion Show
Rudy Gatlin. (Photo courtesy of Joseph Brewster.)
By Tanya Foster
The 3rd annual ESTEEM Fashion Show benefitting The Elisa Project was held on September 22 at Saks Fifth Avenue at Galleria Dallas.
The event was created as an awareness event, allowing participants and audience members to join forces to support each other and friends and family members who are struggling with an eating disorder. ESTEEM is about friendship, fellowship, mentoring and uplifting one other. It builds confidence through support.
Saks Fifth Avenue featured the newest fall fashion shipments and spoke on the ‘must-have’ trends for women and men’s clothing.
Accessories are enticing this season, and SAKS showed more than just the top ten trends.
Audience members cheered on friends who were the ESTEEM guest models or celebrity models as they walked the runway.
Evert chairman Rhonda Sargent Chambers put together an incredible show featuring Debbie Denmon as Mistress of Ceremonies.
Models included: Steve Kemble, Kellie Rasberry and Kamryn Pooladsanj (step daughter), Hilari Younger, Rudy Gatlin, Cynthia Smoot, Jill Rowlett, Yvonne Crum, Steve Blevins, Scott Murray, Chandler Browning, Cassie Legg, Jackson, Amy Vanderoef, Blake Stephenson and daughter Cate Stephenson, Anne and Zoe Besser, Alvin Wade and granddaughters - Lauren and Hannah Alban, Janee' Harrell, Nancy Gopez, Sarah Elizabeth Baumert, Carla Ferrer Russo, Ali Nugent – Miss Texas/USA, and LeeAnne Locken.