Budding fashion designers showed off their work in Mercer County Community College’s inaugural Trenton Makes runway show May 4.
Prior to the show, Gap Inc., regional manager Lori Ann Diaz presented five MCCC students Gap Inc.’s Skills for America’s Future scholarships. Scholarship winners are Melissa Chell, Christina Guillaume, Alysha Mooring, Pina Succi and Ambreen Zaidi.
Set to the rhythmic beats provided by DJs Ralph Colon and Justin Solan, the models took to the runway.
Models walked down the runway wearing designs by Ryan Ramoo of West Windsor, Shannon Rayniece of Trenton, and Tashanique Purnell of Trenton. Works by Pina Succi were displayed on mannequins.
MCCC alumni and professional fashion designers Tammy Duffy and Ray Brown and Diaz were seated at the end of the runway and offered critiques to the students after their lines were shown.
Fourteen models, ranging in age from a five-year-old boy modeling a hoodie, to teens, college students and moms, walked the runway.
The designers also created outfits for five Mercer staff members including Bursar Lucia Brown-Joseph, Allegra Ceci, president Patricia C. Donohue, board member Pam Hersh and Trenton campus provost Monica Weaver. Fashion student Diane Nelson did the staff members’ make-up.
More information is online at mccc.edu.
