As spring fashion weeks guide people’s focus to major Fashion cities like New York, Paris, and Milan, people have overlooked the new rising star in the fashion world: Detroit. As many think of this city to be dead or dying, some people see this city to be the largest fashion opportunity for the future. As the New York Fashion Week is soon to begin, the people of the mid-west just wrapped up viewing Detroit’s fourth consecutive annual Fashion Week this past Saturday.

Fashion specialists of the state of Michigan know that Detroit will be the next big stop for the fashion world. The city’s history in the automotive industry has provided generations of workers in the fields of design and manufacturing, and while the auto industry is losing steam, the creative thinks and industrial factory spaces, that once made the city so great, hold a large opportunity in a growing industry, fashion. With craftsmanship that is above that of many other areas of the world, it is only appropriate to assume that the city and it’s workers have the design and manufacturing abilities to fill the demand for fashionable clothes, made in America.

In the near future, Joe Faris, senior designer for Schott N.Y.C, has planned a second sort of Fashion Week: Fashion in Detroit; “a high-end runway show,” that will drop in less than two weeks. Unlike Detroit Fashion Week’s $350 entrance fee, Fashion in Detroit’s fee is $2,500, and the inaugural show has attracted some nationally recognized figures, including Betsey Johnson and Kid Rock, who will show his Made In Detroit clothing line.

Faris, along with many others, feel that even in these bad economical times, Detroit can make a name for itself in the fashion world, and use its powerful industrial characteristics to create jobs and bring a more optimistic light to the city.

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