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By: Anastasia Tomkin<\/a><\/p>\n

A host of models gathered in Bushwick on\u00a0Saturday, each hoping to make the final cut for New York Fashion Week.<\/p>\n

The casting call organized by\u00a0SFWRUNWAY<\/a>, a creatives group, attracted a range of striking faces and figures sporting six-inch heels and form-fitting black outfits.<\/p>\n

Naomi Alabi,<\/a>\u00a0founder of SFWRUNWAY, presided over the event alongside a panel of assistants and designers as judges. The team selected 140 models, from sizes 0-6 and sizes 14+, who will walk the catwalk during\u00a0show<\/a>s on Wednesday, Sept. 11, where\u00a020 designers, including Hoodlvm, a top three finalist on Netflix\u2019s Next in Fashion Season 2, will show their creations.<\/p>\n

Alabi, a Nigerian immigrant, told BK Reader that she was always creative and interested in fashion, but was unsure how to go about joining the industry. She studied pre-dentistry in college and later landed a fashion-related internship at IMG, a sports, fashion and events company, helping to produce shows.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was a great foundation for my career, it led me to see what I considered an injustice in the industry at the time, because there weren\u2019t a lot of platforms offering a voice to emerging designers,\u201d Alabi said.<\/p>\n

She launched the SFWRUNWAY platform in 2016 after moving from Los Angeles\u00a0to Brooklyn and hosts events twice a year to coincide with the global Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) calendar.<\/p>\n

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The judges.SFW Founder Naomi Alabi center. Photo: Anastasia Tomkin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The casting call in Brooklyn this year attracted hundreds of applicants. Some of them had walked the runway before, including\u00a0Prospect Park resident\u00a0Kwali Liggons<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne thing that SFW does well is how Naomi captures great emerging designers, she\u2019s curating such diverse yet equally compelling talent,\u201d Liggons said. \u201cAcross multiple seasons, you\u2019re able to see how the show evolves from venue, to music to production. Seeing the evolution of it has been a blessing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nineteen-year-old Natalia Kwak was among the earliest models to be\u00a0outside the doors\u00a0before the casting began.<\/p>\n

\u201cModeling makes me feel powerful and allows me to step into a version of myself that I didn\u2019t know I had,\u201d Kwak said. \u201cI love the designers that SFW chooses,\u201d she added. \u201cI think they\u2019re always so creative and a mixture of people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Designer\u00a0Timothy Nashhh<\/a>\u00a0was present at the casting call to help select models. The theme of his collection this year is “surrender; the journey from darkness into light,” he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will go from black denim all the way to a platinum silk polyester,\u201d Nashhh said. \u201cIt\u2019s talking about how originally we were living in darkness but the moment we give our life to Christ then we\u2019re able to move into the light, and the platinum and the metallic is the light.\u201d<\/p>\n

Planning a casting call is extensive, involving a lot of marketing and reaching out to models and agents in their database, Alabi said. SFW makes an effort to leave a positive impact on all the aspiring models, to encourage them whether or not they are selected.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven for the person with the highest confidence, it would still be difficult not to personalize the rejection, even if you know that\u2019s the nature of the business,\u201d Alabi said.<\/p>\n

Ensuring a diverse\u00a0pool of talent is a priority for her brand, she added, which is marking a slow but steady shift in the fashion industry at large.<\/p>\n

Liggons mused that while diversity on the runway has improved over the years, there is still room for better representation at the corporate level.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m always optimistic that we\u2019re gonna get closer and closer,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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