Spring Fashion Show Returns To Petaluma SRJC Campus

PETALUMA, CA — Spring’s long-awaited return has brought sunshine, flowers and fashion to enjoy. Santa Rosa Junior College Fashion Studies program’s annual Spring Fashion Show is on Thursday, May 11 at the Carole Ellis Auditorium on the SRJC Petaluma Campus.

The event is produced by students and features garments and accessories designed and made by Fashion Studies Program students and alumni.

The theme of this year’s show is “Cinema Paradiso.” The title is adapted from the award-winning Italian movie about an aging director’s memories of falling in love for the first time: with a young woman, and with the cinema. The show is inspired by themes and characters of a variety of movie genres.

After the main runway segment of the fashion show, awards will be given for the Fashion Studies Design Contest. This year’s contest, “Prints Please!” required students to incorporate multiple prints or patterns in creative and unusual ways.

The final segment of the show features three mini-collections designed and constructed by senior students.

"We are very excited to be holding our Spring 2023 show in Ellis Auditorium," said Emily Melville, Fashion Studies Program Coordinator. "Our students were inspired by this classy and exciting venue that is such an iconic part of the Petaluma campus."

SRJC Caitlin McFall is the venue coordinator and said she is happy to be back producing a show at this level of grandiosity.

"With this year’s fashion show, we’re upping the stakes," McFall said. "'Cinema Paradiso' will be a grand celebration of cinema and the arts; I’m so excited for you all to see."

Student Director Dylan Dockstader agreed.

"This is going to be the movie event of the year. You definitely won't want to miss it."

Tickets are $5 in advance or $10 after May 7 and are available for purchase online.

Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 11 and the show runs from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Carol Ellis Auditorium on the Petaluma Campus, 680 Sonoma Mountain Parkway in Petaluma.

See more information, including a video of last year’s show, at this link.