Fashion, People, Freaking Out at FF2010

Call it a hipster show, call it hipster chic, call it the Crown Jewel of Hipsterville, Texas, but friends, you and your hipster bashing cannot deny how hands-down rad Fashion Freakout is.

Last Friday, Fashion Freakout—the brainchild of Jason McNeely and Audrie San Miguel, local vintage ingenue and owner of Prototype Vintage Design—threw its third annual bash at Mohawk. The event commanded a line out the door at least an hour before the runway show, and a crowd of mostly twenty- to thirty-somethings filled the floor and balcony to its fire code capacity. Comic Matt Bearden played host, deploying possibly one of the most successful rounds of, "Who's LOUDER? Left side, or right side!" this blogger has ever seen (but not in a cheesy way, mind you), while FF attendees—the grand majority of which were proud vintage fashionistas themselves—filtered in. With the crowd suitably warmed up, McNeely cued the rock/metal/steel guitar overhead, and the models took to the catwalk.

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The show was divided into two acts, with two presentations each from Buffalo Exchange, New Bohemia, and Prototype Vintage. While the whole enterprise of Fashion Freakout relies on unique combinations of vintage style, a handful of consistent runway themes stood out. These include: lacy tights, abundant taffeta (on bottom and top), jackets both shrunken and oversized, black leather, metallic gloves, corset tops, boots a-plenty, fringe/sequin/rhinestone accents, and straight-up Western wear.

For the first time ever, Avant Salon joined FF this year for hair and make-up, yielding plenty of sexy, tousle-haired and heavily-eye-lined 3 AM girls. Notable in its absence? The ironic hipster mustache, a facial hair darling of many an Austin male. Perhaps FF2011.

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By Tolly Moseley in Arts & Entertainment on February 9, 2010 11:00 AM 0 Comments

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while FF attendees—the grand majority of which were proud vintage fashionistas themselves—filtered in. With the crowd suitably warmed up, McNeely cued the rock/metal/steel guitar overhead, and the models took to the catwalk.

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the grand majority of which were proud vintage fashionistas themselves—filtered in. With the crowd suitably warmed up, McNeely cued the rock/metal/steel guitar overhead, and the models took to the catwalk.