University of Vermont students host black fashion event

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The crowd at University of Vermont's Davis Center went wild Saturday as models strutted and posed in vibrant fabrics that popped on the catwalk.

"It's culture. Fashion is a type of art. And it's a testimony of you," 2019 event organizer Michael Chea said as students prepped for the fashion show, "Paint it Black," in rooms on the fourth floor of the Davis Center on Saturday afternoon.

The fashion event featured students wearing clothes by black designers walking the runway to contemporary beats. Chea and other UVM Black Student Union participants traced the origins of the show to Black History Month 2006 in the online archive of The Cynic, UVM's student-run news group.