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Please join us for Runway 9.0, Buffalo State's annual spring fashion show, on Saturday, April 16, at 3:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. Founded in 2008, the Runway event allows fashion and textile technology (FTT) students enrolled in apparel design, textile design, and fashion show production to professionally showcase their talents. Tickets can be purchased online. All proceeds go to the FTT scholarship fund.

This year’s Runway theme, "Eco-lution: Ecology plus Evolution," celebrates the love of what surrounds us, thoughtfulness of the environment, and sustainability. It also emphasizes the gradual development of the simple to the complex: students into designers and merchandisers; cloth into garments; and the apparel industry model from wasteful to thoughtful.

Up to nine senior designers will show their collections, sharing the runway with undergraduate designers and unveiling a collaborative project with the Burchfield Penney Art Center. FTT students in two classes were challenged to design and develop garments using fabric printed with wallpaper designs by Charles E. Burchfield. These garments will debut at Runway 9.0 before joining the Burchfield collection at the museum.