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FAshion FUture Fest
Fashion Future Fest empowers neighborhood kids to have courage, confidence and self-expression through inclusive fashion and entertainment experiences. This year’s event was a huge success. Thank you all for your support in bringing inclusion and diversity to the fashion and entertainment industry and celebrating our beautiful models contributions to the world.
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equity in fashion
Breaking Barriers in Beauty
Fashion Future Fest empowers neighborhood kids to have courage, confidence and self-expression through inclusive fashion and entertainment experiences. FFF gives kids, teens, and young adults an opportunity to step outside of their neighborhood to perform for their loved ones in an elegant atmosphere. Encourage and support our models as they uplift and express themselves in beautiful and creative ways.
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"I am not my disability"
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About
OTE Dance Company, is a preprofessional non-competitive dance company for ages 7-19. The company’s mission is to nurture young dancers in a more serious and creative environment that encourages individuals to embrace their inner artist and express themselves through the art of dance.
Our fundraising will fund our new varied abilities classes
Meet our Models
Company Dancers
Robert Gilliam
Owner, ote Dance Studio
Robert Gilliam is an internationally acclaimed choreographer, master teaching artist, director of Artist Collective, a non-profit organization which provides high-quality arts education K-12 throughout Los Angeles. He also serves as the Director of Creative Community International which offers art programs for at-risk youth around the world and Co-Owner On The Edge Dance Studio in Culver City.
He was the first American artist to set a Jazz/Hip Hop piece at the Shanghai Opera House and has worked with the National Song and Dance Ensemble and the Beijing Opera House of China. For the past 11 years, Robert has produced “Moving Beyond Walls” a 10-week residency dance program for juvenile detention centers and behavioral clinics throughout LA County. Gilliam’s professional work and community-based projects have been funded by National Endowment for the Arts, The Dana Foundation, United States Embassy Panama, Santa Monica Education Foundation and more.
Eve saw first hand the positive effect her after school program had on children and realized Jump for Joi was a deterrent to drugs, gangs, peer pressure, bullying, violent crimes and other negative situations children encountered on the streets after school hours.
Our fundraising will fund art classes for neighborhood kids
Meet our Models
Eve's Team
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Eve
Founder, Jump for Joi
Designer Eve Douglass has passion for children, fashion and art. Having had custody of a 7-year old sexually abused relative, Eve discovered a desire to advocate for children who were unable to do so for themselves. The plight of abused children so moved her, that Eve started designing and producing a children’s fashion show to raise money in support of agencies supporting children in need (this year marks the 22nd annual fashion show). Those agencies include, Project Rock & Hold, Children’s Institute Internation, The Foundation for the Junior Blind, Sickle Cell Disease Research Foundation, and The Minority Aids Project to name a few.
Wanting to make more of a direct impack helping children, Eve founded Jump for Joi Children’s Foundation. She took one sewing machine, fabrics, buttons and trims and began volunteer teaching after school sewing, quilting and arts & crafts at the East 60th Street Community Youth Center. Crack cocaine was an epidemic in the community at the time and was having a devastating effect on children and the community at large. Eve’s after program gave children a safe, nurturing, creative space to come to after school. Eve saw first hand the positive effect her program had on children and realized Jump for Joi was a deterrent to drugs, gangs, peer pressure, bullying, violent crimes and othe negative situration children encountered on the streets after school hours.
Today Eve for Jump 4 Joi is continuing its work in building the self-esteem of children, promoting creativity and problem solving, supporting mental and emotional health through art, building communication skills, celebrating cultural diversity and breaking barriers for at-risk children.
Eve is a collaborating partner with “Fashion Future Fest”. A fashion show event dedicated to educate, inspire and show case young designers.
About
Compton Early College (CEC) in partnership with Compton College was established in 2015 as a senior high school. Early college’s purpose is to provide students with an opportunity to earn an AA (Associate of Arts Degree) and/or IGETC (Intersegmental General Education Transfer Certificate) while also earning their high school diploma.
Workshops
CEC students volunteered for a free modeling workshops and an opportunity to be in a fashion show that stood for inclusion and diversity. They met with Mr. Robert Gilliam during their lunch, dedicating their time to master their style and poise on the catwalk.
Benefits of Modeling Workshops
Workshops
Beverly Vista dance students volunteered for a free modeling workshops and an opportunity to be in a fashion show that stood for inclusion and diversity. They met with Mr. Robert Gilliam during their lunch, dedicating their time to master their style and poise on the catwalk.
Benefits of Modeling Workshops
Meet our special guest model
Haley Poore
“As Haley’s Modeling Coach for the past year, it has a been amazing to watch her learn and grow not only as a talented and beautiful model, but also as a confident, fearless, kind, and giving human being. I am so proud of what she has accomplished, and I know that she will do great things and has bright future ahead of her.”
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Meet the designers
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AMES Brown Chang
Ames Brown Chang lives by the style motto, “More is more and less is a bore!” A 12-year-old fashion enthusiast, Ames also loves art, film, books, music, and sports. She is passionate about animal welfare and regularly volunteers at The Peninsula Humane Society. She is also an active member of For Goodness Cakes, an organization that provides birthday cakes for L.A. foster youth.
Meet our guest model coach
Janelle
I have always enjoyed learning about the modeling and fashion industry, mastering the art and transforming the lives of aspiring models.
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