Chicago Designers Raising Funds for NY Fashion Week Chicago

Chicago Designers Raising Funds for NY Fashion Week

January 26, 2012 12:00 AM

" Showing your collection at New York Fashion Week is a monumental achievement for any young designer.

Coming up with the funds to make it happen -- transportation, lodging, model and hairstylists -- is a whole other matter.

That's the dilemma facing Omar Villabos and Gordana Rasic, the Chicago team behind fashion label GOCA.

The pair have been chosen to show their Fall/Winter 2012 collection at the Emerge! runway show in front of such fashion luminaries as Andre Leon Talley and Diane Von Furstenberg.

But Villabos and Rasic are college students, and like most students, don't have a lot of extra cash laying around "

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