Hosted by DCASE and the Mayor’s Fashion Council, Fashion Town Hall will showcase the fashion industry and its supporting agencies with presentations from Fashion Focus Chicago, the Chicago Fashion Incubator, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sanford-Brown College, Columbia College Chicago and more, including four CCOL youth who will describe their experience in STEAM Studio!

Also featured will be special keynote speaker Nena Ivon, professor at Columbia College Chicago and former long-time marketing director at Saks Fifth Avenue; and a panel discussion, nurturing talent to build successful fashion brands in Chicago, with Nena Ivon, designers J.Toor and Lagi Nadeau, and Marie P. Anderson of Agency Galatea.

The emcee of this Official Fashion Focus: Chicago's Fashion Week event is Ryan Beshel of Purely Fashion. Admission is free, but registration is requested here. Seating is first come, first serve.

Claudia Cassidy Theater, G.A.R. Hall and Rotunda
Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E Washington Street.
Tuesday, October 14
5:30 - 9:30pm

See the detailed schedule at http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/FashionTownHall.html.