Fashion Show

 

Green Is the New Black Fashion Extravaganza

Returning March 6-8, 2025 ⁠
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Green Is the New Black is an alluring, dynamic show featuring both local and regional designers and models, dancers and performers with multimedia storytelling.  Transforming the Carbondale Rec Center into a glitzy fashion house, this event sells out annually with 600+ tickets sold per night.  It's not to be missed!

  • Dancer and Model auditions have closed.

  • Carbondale Arts members early bird tickets go on sale January 29 at noon.

  • Public ticket sales begin February 5 at noon.


 

Above edit from the 2016 show “Transformation” Videography by Jeremiah Hutchens & Brandon Luck McDuffey. More videos from previous shows below!

 

Interested in becoming a co-producer, partner or sponsor?

Participation as a partner puts your name in front of thousands of people, as well as showcases your business year-round at other events such as Carbondale Mountain Fair. It connects you with the important messages of sustainability, creativity and community– messages that are in the forefront of our minds worldwide today.

We invite you, or your company, to be part of this premier valley event in the heart of the Carbondale Creative District by joining with us as a partner. Support our local arts education with your commitment to us. We welcome the opportunity to meet with your company representatives to further discuss the details.

Proceeds from the show will directly benefit Carbondale Arts’ arts education programs which include free after-school arts classes, curriculum-based arts education, and the Rosybelle Mobile Maker Bus, youth scholarships and other programs. For further inquiries, please contact Jamie Abbott at 970-963-1680 or jamie@carbondalearts.com.

Get involved by modeling or volunteering at the event

Each year, Carbondale Arts seeks enthusiastic and creative community members, ages 18 to 80+, to be volunteer models. That’s right, you heard us 18-80+! We welcome community members of all ages, all sizes, all ethnicities and orientations. The diversity of our cast is one of the things that makes our show so special and also one of the reasons Green is the New Black is such a beloved event.

Rehearsals take place in early January at The Launchpad. Based on the number looks we have to present and the constraints with space backstage and hair and makeup, we can only accommodate up to 45 models each year.

Model commitment consists of Wednesday and Sunday evenings from late January through the first two weeks in March and Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday evenings the week of the show.

2025 auditions have closed.

 

Not quite ready for the catwalk?

Green is the New Black needs a whole lot of volunteers leading up to and during the event to make it happen. From ticketing to ushering, hair and makeup, cocktail serving and more, it takes a village to put on this show!

Designer Information

Green is the New Black sells out for two nights of shows and a third pre-show evening. That is over 1800 people seeing your designs live and in person, not to mention your clothing's information being distributed in 4000 local newspapers via the show's program. Coverage on GITNB reaches over 30,000 people(and counting!) between newspaper, radio and social media. Both our audience and designers come from all around the country. About 25% of our audience comes from Aspen, 60% from elsewhere in the Roaring Fork Valley and 15% beyond!

All designers must meet our sustainability guidelines. Clothes do not need to be designed around the theme of the show. 2025 applications closed December 4, 2024.

2024 Designers:

Akomplice, Amy McFetridge, Box Eleven by Katie Brown, Caroline Iles , Creative Apprenticeship x ReWear, CMC Soft Goods, Delaney Rudy, Delia Bolster, Elissa Rodman, Hoohah, Ira Sherman, Ironic Dilemma by Molly Briggs, Madalyn Buchanan, Dena Barnes, Eagers Studio, Kalliopi Monoyios, Land of Peace by Rochelle Norwood & Justice Bouchet, Laura Stover, Lilian Lara, Machete & Sons, Mona Lisa, Morgan Walsh, Paul Kimpling & Stuart Kramer, Rachael Gillespie, Roaring Divas, Ruthie & Ayana Brown, Skye Barker Maa, Studio Rand, Victory Mae by Amanda Simmons, Western Slope of Colorado Fibershed, Yoli LaGuerre

 
 

Watch clips from previous shows: They are equally excellent.

 
 

The 2024 Green Is the New Black is Supported by:

 

Associate Producer

 
 
 

Sponsorship Partners