Celebrating Boston influencers positively changing the fashion standard.
Fashion Week Event Sept 25, 2019
Boston, Massachusetts
02ex aims to elevate Boston Fashion Week. Fuel a revolution that infuses positivity and inclusivity in fashion for not just Boston, but the fashion industry as a whole.
Massachusetts based influencers leading the way
O2ex Boston Fashion Week celebrates local people and organizations doing extraordinary things in our community and positively influencing the fashion industry. See the amazing pioneers who've joined forces, dedicated to engaging, innovating and inspiring the local fashion community. Together, we can make change!
Presented by:
Cheryl Worrell Brown
CEO/Founder, o2ex Boston Fashion Week
From an early age, Cheryl has defied all odds. Growing up in the rural south during the segregation era in a town governed by Jim Crow laws, Cheryl chose to rise never accepting the words ' You Can't'.
Cheryl grew up in the rural south. Petersburg, VA sat near the capital of confederacy, and was the very location where Robert E. Lee’s surrender ended the civil war. Her town was governed by Jim Crow laws and blatantly ruled by the Klu Klux Klan. All spaces, public and private were segregated. Schools, hospitals, stores, workplaces, pools and recreation centers remained separate for Blacks and Whites. During this dark period, Cheryl was born and raised, a flower growing beneath concrete.
Daily, during her childhood, bricks of degradation and doubt were stacked on top of that concrete. Every day, when she and her family were told they couldn't do something - her mother would always say "there is no such thing as can't". Cheryl's mother was inspired by her parents Elizabeth and Govan Worrell, who were business owners, ministers and community leaders. Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. personally recruited her mother during his early years and registered her to join the movement.
Non-Profit Partner:
Supporting local disadvantaged youth and building success in school through access to fashion.
Catie's Closet is O2Ex's non-profit partner. An idea rooted in love, carried out by a local family with the idea that when you give clothes, you give confidence.
“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”
Theme:
Innovation - Inspiration - Engagement
O2ex Boston Fashion Week is the perfect opportunity for student and aspiring designers to display their talents! This year our theme is Innovation - Inspiration - Engagement how Empathy & Caring attitudes influence fashion on the runway and ultimately on racks in retail stores!
o2ex Boston Fashion Week will
Celebrate diversity, cultural inclusiveness and the beauty of the human body in all shapes, sizes and colors.
Be a part of a grassroots movement to bring positivity to the fashion industry and build awareness around the local innovation here in Boston.
O2EX BOSTON FASHON WEEK MODELS ON A MISSION TO ENGAGE INNOVATE INSPIRE ORDINARY PEOPLE TO DO EXTRAORDINARY THINGS LIKE SUPPORTING OUR COMMUNITY PROMOTING LOCAL BUSINESS AND ASPIRING EMERGING MODELS DESIGNERS STYLISTS INFLUENCERS…JOIN US!