How to Design Your Own Virtual Fashion Show for Girls

Fashion show production adds prestige to a resume. Virtual shows, a rising trend, offer brilliant marketing opportunities. Capable of driving web traffic, they can showcase original designs or promote fledgling talent. Designing a virtual fashion show involves multiple skills. Fashion and trend awareness is key. Industry connections, event production experience, Internet marketing savvy and a certain amount of technical skill helps. Additionally, to appeal to girls, you must understand the teen and preteen fashion marketplace.

Things You'll Need

• Fashions
• Accessories
• Models or avatars
• Staging
• Backdrop
• Sound
• Makeup and hair people
• Camera
• Computer
• File transfer program

Instructions

1. As with traditional fashion shows, first select a theme. The theme is the single thread connecting each show element. Seasonal themes are common. Pop culture also provides potential themes. For ideas, analyze the celebrity trends, songs or movies currently sweeping your target market.

2. Secure clothing and accessories. Work with designers or stores looking for promotion. During selection, keep in mind age, size and mindset of your market along with theme. Create release forms saving you from financial responsibility for loss or damage. Professionally bag clothes to and from the location. Forbid smoking, drinking (except bottled water) or food behind stage to minimize risk.

3. Audition models or create avatars. Each model usually appears in no more than three to five outfits. Modeling schools or nonprofit girls' organizations often provide inexpensive or free models.

4. Create simple staging and backdrops. Without a live audience, elevated runways are unnecessary. Ramp-shaped carpeting works. Minimal props, such as a single cactus for a western theme or opened umbrellas along the top of the stage for a spring show, focus attention on clothing and models while echoing your theme.

5. Select theme-friendly background music. Music follows the pace and intensity of the show. Shows build from simple to extreme. The most elegant designs appear last. Outfits appear in daytime to evening order. Music and lighting follows suit.

6. Rehearse the show as much as necessary. Record each time. Upload the final copy to your website using a file transfer program. Create buzz on the web driving traffic to your site.

Tips & Warnings

• Simple shows are easiest to produce with less chance for error.

• Keep web content current. Take shows down within one year.

• Hair and makeup people can be secured from local cosmetology schools.

• Don't date the show with extreme styles, makeup, hair or music.

• Don't bore the audience. Keep the show time under thirty minutes.

References

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