2nd Annual Lakes Chic Street Fashion Show attracts a standing room-only audience – Detroit Lakes Tribune

DETROIT LAKES There were barely any seats available inside Bucks Mill Brewing on the morning of Saturday, May 13, as a huge crowd gathered for the 2nd Annual Lakes Chic Street Fashion Show.

A catwalk stretches from one end of the room to the other, with purple lights giving a spring-like hue to the proceedings. The room was also decorated with pots of pink geraniums which were then brought home by the guests who bought them.

Before the show started, attendees were treated to a breakfast buffet, served by La Barista, and glasses of the “Berry Chic Mimosa”, an original recipe made especially for the occasion.

Three local pop-up vendors are also on hand to help attendees shop: Nature’s Embrace Soap Company, Cakes and Stuff by Jenny, and local jBloom jewelry designer Stacey Hovelson.

As expected, the pre-Mother’s Day event attracted mostly women, although there were a few men interspersed among the standing-room-only crowd.

Vicki Gerdes/Detroit Lakes Tribune

According to Barb Zahasky, owner of Mainstream Boutique in downtown Detroit Lakes, as many as 11 local boutiques are participating in this year’s show, each showing four different looks from their spring and summer fashion collections.

Participating boutiques include:

• Drift Clothing Co.
• Gliks from the Detroit Lakes
• Leela and Lavender
• Main Boutique
• Maurice
• North girl
• Red Willows
• Bypassing the Rules
• JQ Apparel Co.
• Junque is beautiful
• Vintage N Vogue

For those who are counting, yes, that means there are 44 models strutting down the catwalk for an hour of the show. Bucks Mill Brewing is closed to the public from 9:30am to noon for the celebration.
Lakes Chic Street

is a collaboration of Detroit Lakes store owners working together, putting “community above the competition”, to create a supportive downtown business district. They also do a

live Facebook talk show

every other Tuesday.