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Chicago based fashion designer Borris Powell will stage a fashion show to raise funds for The Savings Lives Foundation. Article / interview with Borris Powell.

The Saving Lives Foundation is a community-based program dedicated to empowering youth

from under-resourced communities through arts-based education designed to help build identity and self-esteem, and rebuild community, empathy, and opportunity.

Vision: Through classes and mentoring in the creative disciplines, our programs educate youth and empower them to embrace their identities, develop self-esteem, and bring healing to themselves and their communities.

Provides classes in sewing, hair and makeup, styling, music, photography, videography and culinary arts.

Explore the city through field trips and meetings with creative professionals throughout the city.

Tutor students in professional etiquette, creative problem-solving, and work ethic.

Borris Powell Bio:

Born in Alabama, the passionate designer developed his dreams of a career in women’s fashion early on in life. Throughout his childhood, while observing his mother preparing for a night out on the town or even a Sunday visit to church, he trained his young eyes on color and silhouette. This is how his lifelong dream began.

Powell?s fashion inspirations also come from travel and a devotion to study.  His collections include exciting approaches to big ideas ranging from philosophy to cinema. From Milan and Paris to Amsterdam and Shanghai, he?s absorbed a sense of global ideas of what looks best on the female body.

Inspired by the masterful shapes of Christian Dior, Powell followed his dreams and moved to Chicago to start his design career in 1997. Over the following decade, he pursued his vision with an infectious entrepreneurial talent and creativity that has built him a devoted following of fans.