International Fashion Show shared fashion from 6 countries, one continent

On March 6, the International Coordinating Council shared presentations from six countries and one continent: Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Philippines, India, Iran, Thailand and Africa. Barikisu Issaka, graduate pupil in mass communications, and Ketan Shende, graduate college student in biological and agricultural engineering, hosted the function.

This season, the ICC tried a fresh interactive way to reveal which country would be presented.

“This year’s show had a unique interactive feature of asking questions to see if we're able to identify countries by certain pictures,” Wendy Matthews, assistant director of International Programs at Kansas State, said.

Although this is the initially year the fashion show was online, the ICC organized a meeting filled up with colorful descriptions and images of the participants revealing their clothing.

The African Scholar Union and Philippine Scholar Association also participated in the display, turning in a video slideshow of their attire.

“The great thing about an online event is that the audience can focus extra on the dresses and their descriptions, and you can present even more in a limited period of time,” Ghina Zia, graduate research assistant in biomedical computing and products, said.

The style show offered new perspectives on fashion from other cultures, showing how different parts of an individual country can have unique cultural apparel.

Zia said the style show is cherished since it promotes intercultural harmony and diversity in K-State.

“This kind of activity really helps me to admire and appreciate differences popular,” Matthews said. “Learning about the day-to-day areas of other cultures is probably the things that has been so interesting about meeting persons from other parts of the world.”

Elizabeth Chapman, sophomore in political science, encouraged extra students to wait multicultural events just like the International Fashion Show.

“I think it’s a really good opportunity for people to learn in regards to a culture that’s unique of their unique and getting in contact with other people from multicultural corporations,” Chapman said