Great news! Our iReport video “Fashion For Change” about the Oct. 2 AuH2Obama show has been selected as a FINALIST! Please click on this link and vote for ours (top row, 4th from the right) so we can be on Anderson Cooper:
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/allpolitics/0810/filmfest.vote/
Please spread the word!
AuH2O is listed in the BEST OF NYC issue of the Village Voice. “Best Way to Look Fashionable and Recycle at the Same Time.” Sweet. Pick up a copy today, or check out the listing online here:
and while I’m already bragging, we were listed #6 in Citysearch’s Best of Vintage section. ONLY number 6, what the hell? Haha, no, it’s pretty exciting:
And come to the AuH2Obama Fashion Show Friday the 24th! (see post below)
Check out this video from the October 2nd AuH2Obama show by Jesse Ash on ireport: http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-112855. Thanks Jesse!
UPDATE: WE WERE CHOSEN AS SEMIFINALISTS! Keep your fingers crossed that we’ll be on Anderson Cooper!
AND… with the election just a few weeks away, AuH2O is hosting a third and final fashion show fundraiser for Obama on Friday, October 24. The past two AuH2Obama shows were so successful that I just had to have one more before the 4th. This show will be at KABIN in the East Village, 92 2nd Avenue, at 10pm.
As in the previous AuH2Obama shows, all models will walk the runway in Obama wear. We’ll be selling Obama tops for only $20 and dresses for $40 (50% of the profits going to the campaign.) And as always, we’ll be handing out free Obama buttons, stickers, and window signs. Grab a bunch and send them to your family and friends in swing states!
There is no cover charge for the show, drinks will be only $4- beer, wine, and well. Cupcakes will be for sale for $1, and any additional donations will go to the campaign. We will feature the jewelry of Patricia Alonzo, who will also be selling her pieces and donating a percentage to the campaign. The show will start at 10pm, DJ’ed by Avi Flombaum and featuring hot models:
Mona Asinovski
Hilary Blasco
Alana Corbett
Margaret Fasolo
Jill Filipovic
Elizabeth Gillroy
Jesse Greenblatt
Sarah Hyde
Rachel Kay
Antonia Kuyumji
Malorie Leogrande
Lauren Lewis
Leanne Linsky
Pauline Ma
Rachel McKinney
Sam Mehlman
Rachel Northrop
Carmen Ongsiako
Anika Paris
Nydia Parries
Elyse Piker
Jolanda Porter
Annie Raso
Rachel Rosen
Marcia Robiou
Valeria Smith
Alice Forbes Spear
Dana Tarasavage
Jamia Wilson
Here’s the info again:
Where: KABIN, 92 2nd Avenue (b/t 5th and 6th streets)
F to 2nd Ave, walk five blocks North
When: Friday, October 24, 10pm
Hope to see you there!
The Second AuH2Obama show was as successful as the first! Thanks to Avi Flombaum, Hilary Blasco, Rachel Kay, Helen Frank, Alice Shyy and Donatella Quintavalle for jewelry, all the models, everyone who came out, and special thanks to my AMAZING new interns Antonia Kuyumji, Caitlyn Leary, and Leigh Peterson. Having interns is the greatest thing to ever happen to me- makes my life so much easier. And also, they’re really damn cool.
Still in the mail are professional photos from my favorite photographer, Bridgette Auger, but here are a few from my digital camera the meantime. See more on in my flickr site:
Morgan Roberts, Valeria Smith, Lia Stone, Namrata Singh
Dana Tarasavage, Rachel Goldman, Kaitlyn Large
Alex Tsocanos and Cameron Cole giving us an “08″
Rachel Northrop in an AuH2Obama SKIRT
Jill Bee, Elena Cohen, and Annie Raso (Annie in her own Obama creation!)
Sarah Simon, Rachel Sterne, and Meghan Asha
And on the runway at Lunasa:
Dana Tarasavage
Annelle Sheline
Valeria Smith in a “I <3 Pro-Choice NY & Obama” top
Hilary Blasco (dress made by Annie Raso)
Sarah Hyde
Rachel Kay in an AuH2Obama/Brett Favre jersey dress
and finally…
… Cameron Cole showing off the Obama shorts
Though a bunch of these items have already sold at the show or in the store, there are several more online at my etsy store www.auh2odesigns.etsy.com and some at AuH2O. If there’s something you like that you don’t see online, MAYBE it’s available at the shop, but I can’t promise that. Send me an email and if still I have it, I’ll hold it for you or mail it out to you: kate -at- auh2odesigns -dot- com.
And can anyone believe this bail-out business? I know we need to do SOMETHING, but I’m not sure putting 700 billion in the hands of those who caused this problem is the answer. I’m no economics expert, but this article in the Times bothered me, especially this part:
Treasury officials do not plan to manage the mortgage assets on their own. Instead, they will outsource nearly all of the work to professionals, who will oversee huge portfolios of bonds and other securities for a management fee.
The Treasury is expected to name a senior official to supervise the program. For now, various working groups creating the program are reporting directly to Henry M. Paulson Jr., the Treasury secretary.
Mr. Paulson has recruited several former colleagues from Goldman Sachs to advise him, though administration officials took pains to say that they were not dominating the process, pointing to other Treasury employees who were playing major roles.
I don’t like the words “outsource” or “management fee” or even “Goldman Sachs” in that context. But what do I know? I just make clothes. But clothes that people wear and remind others to vote Obama, at least.
VOTE OBAMA!