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It’s a week of fashion Orange County style when Orange County Fashion Week kicks off Monday, March 3 through Saturday, March 8 with daily events featuring local talent, models, hair, beauty and fashion designers as well as international designers presented by Orange County Fashion Council. Each day, the chosen venues in Costa Mesa, Santa Ana, Orange and Laguna Beach will reflect the tone and styles of the fashions ranging from couture to avant-garde, tailor-made to innovative hautech.

Day 1 of Orange County Fashion Week starts with Sweet Splendor of Style: SUGAR RUSH on Monday, March 3 from 6 to 9 p.m. at Seven Degrees Laguna beach with a lineup of international bikini designers, jewels, gems and bikini bling on the catwalk.

It’s a quintessential cocktail party with Manna Kadar ultimate red-carpet-readying makeover, followed by a panel of guest speakers, a ready-to-wear runway show, a sparkly jewelry fashion forum, breathless beaming bikinis, and a fine display of millinery display creates the most innovative cocktail dress from day to night.

Tickets are available here.

Day 2, on Tuesday, March 4 from 6 p.m. to midnight features Hautech Menswear & The Digital Age taking off with fashionable, high-flying style with an evening at the Lyon Air Museum. Featuring a runway show of capsule collections, there will be special photo ops by Newport Italian Vespa complemented by the museum’s authentic aircraft, rare vehicles, and memorabilia, mainly from the World War II era. Hautech will introduce exhibitors of menswear, active and sportswear, and streetwear.  Tickets and more information are available here.
 

Day 3, on Wednesday, March 5 from 3 to 5 p.m. features fashion leaders of tomorrow in the Chapman University student-run PROWL event, career expo, recruitment day, with a top-of-the-hour runway showcase. The Dressed2the9z event kicks off at 3 p.m. when major retailers such as Men’s Wearhouse, Target and others will converge upon Chapman University’s campus for a career expo and to give student fashion industry hopefuls a chance to interview with these various fashion powerhouses. The Top-of-Every Hour PROWL event will allow Chapman Film and Theatre Department students, as well as Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM) alumni, to show what they can do on the catwalk.
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Day 4, on Thursday March 6 from 9:30 to 11:30 p.m. the award-winning fashion restaurant AnQi by Crustacean will host Avant-Garde House of Style. Designers will push the limits with fashion creations that challenge the imagination and advance the art of fashion. Accenting the fashion-forward creations will be hair by Toni & Guy Academy’s gifted students who will coif the talented models from Orange County Ballet Theatre company.

A portion of the ticket sales will benefit the Orange County Ballet Theatre.

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Day 5, on  Saturday, March 8 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., the final night of the 2014 Orange County Fashion Week features Couture at Dawson Cole Fine Art in Laguna Beach where internationally noted artist Richard MacDonald’s sculptures preside, this evening will be one of stunning couture creations. Models will wear fashion ensembles that have been meticulously hand-crafted, hand-cut and sewn.

All proceeds of he 100% of the Couture tickets will benefit HOMEAID. For tickets and more information, visit here.