Updated: Finlandia to present Fiber, Fashion Design show Nov. 8

HANCOCK -- The Finlandia University Fiber and Fashion Design program will host its second annual student and alumnae runway fashion show, "Kalposia," at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8, 2008, at at the Finnish American Heritage Center in Hancock.

Juice deMers, Finlandia Art and Design student, will be featured in the Finlandia University Fiber and Fashion Design program on Saturday, Nov. 8, at the Finnish American Heritage Center. This photo was taken backstage at the SYR+ISM performance during the Scarlet Masquerade Nov. 1. (Photo courtesy Pamela Kotila. Reprinted with permission.)*

The show will highlight work by students Pamela Kotila (Dodgeville), Stacy Karvonen (Hancock) and Juice deMers (Vulcan); and alumnae Angela Smith, Becky Weeks, Yana Weglarz and Betsi Arend.

"The Finlandia dance team will also be featured, and SYR+ISM will perform the fashion performance that was a big hit at the Scarlet Masquerade last weekend," said Phyllis Fredendall, associate professor of fiber and fashion design for Finlandia’s International School of Art and Design.

Jon Armanet prepares backstage for the SYR+ISM performance during the Scarlet Masquerade Nov. 1. Their choreographed fashion program will be repeated this Saturday, Nov. 8, during the Finlandia Fiber and Fashion Design program runway fashion show at the Finnish American Heritage Center. (Photo courtesy Pamela Kotila. Reprinted with permission.)

The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call Fredendall at 487-7376.

*Editor's update: We regret the error in the version of this article published earlier today. The Finlandia dance team is not the same group as SYR+ISM.