Annual fashion show presents new styles

The Black Student Union will host one of the last fashion events of the year. The third annual BSU Little 500 Extravaganza is a creative and entertaining look at contemporary fashion, organizers said. \nThe show will include some of the hottest music from hip-hop artists, and it will also include designs from a local design team. The show will be at 8:30 p.m. tonight at the Buskirk-Chumley Theatre, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave.\nThe coordinators said the audience will be surprised. Senior Brandy Davis, who is one of the show's coordinators, said she is anticipating the crowd's reaction. \n"The show is going to be entertaining," Davis said. "We are going to have a lot of interaction with the crowd to keep their attention."\nOrganizers said they have already sold more than 200 tickets. \n"We are expecting a lot of people; normally we get 300 to 400 people," said Kevin Mason, a coordinator for the show. \nForty-seven models of all races, shapes and sizes will take part in the show. Mason said she is excited about the show because of the venue and the diverse group of models. \nWhile the models will be displaying clothes, they will do so in a unique way, coordinators said. They will be dancing and voguing to the music being played by DJ B. Nasty. The music will include artists such as Busta Rhymes, Solange, Truth Hurts, Sean Paul and R.Kelly. \nThe show is being coordinated by seven different people each contributing their individual styles. The show features eight different scenes, each with a different theme: an introduction, a nine-to-five scene, a white scene, a leather episode, an after-five scene, a lingerie showcase, an abstract scene, a swimwear show and an outro section, which is a compilation of dances from various cultures.\n"We try to out-do ourselves every year," Mason said. \nDavis said she is excited about the outro portion of the show. \n"The outro is a collage of dancing; we tried to do something unique," she said.\nThe theme is around the world and will include a part of the Caribbean culture, Arabic culture and Latin culture. \nThe models will be wearing clothes from Pacific Sunwear, Deb, B. Moss, The Buckle, Wet Seal, Wilson's Leather, Garden of Eden and Bare Essentials. A local fashion design team will also present clothes at the show. \nThe show will have two intermissions. The first intermission will include the NAEM clothing line. NAEM, Name Above Every Man, is a team of local fashion designers. The team will be showcasing looks from its most recent collection. \n"A lot of people know about us, and a lot of people don't know," said Eric Saunders, one of the design team members. "This is good exposure." \nThe collection will include jogging suits, tees, dresses and a twist on men's clothing worn as women's clothing. \n"People aren't going to know what to expect," Saunders said. "I don't even know what to expect." \nIU Essence, IU's hip-hop dance team, will also be performing during the first intermission. \nThe second intermission will be host to a free-style battle for audience members. \nCoordinators said while the event is a fashion show, they try to keep all kinds of audience members interested throughout the event. \n"If people are expecting to see models just walk up and down the runway, they will come out saying 'whoa, what did I just see,'" Davis said.