NPR’s Michel Martin spotlights Detroit Fashion Week

Michel Martin, host of NPR’s popular afternoon talk show Tell Me More, put the Detroit fashion scene on national airwaves last week, interviewing local designer Stefanie Dickey of Stef-N-Ty and Detroit Fashion Week founder Brian Heath.

Dickey previously owned and designed her thriving fashion business from New York, Chicago and Baltimore, so she and Martin (who owns several of her pieces) discussed how this city is attracting creatives from other major cities. But DFW’s Heath summed up why Detroit’s so fashion forward at this moment.

Excerpt:

Chicago has been a fashion hub for quite some time. I don’t want to
knock Chicago, but at the same time I think Michigan has so much more to
offer now. Everyone looks at the economic situation across the country.
And when you look at the designers who are actually presenting their
lines, a lot of those designers are either presenting locally or they’re
looking for new locations to move to, and Michigan happens to be that
single place. The designers here in Michigan have a great opportunity to make
themselves the new faces — the new businesses that the industry wants to
look for and to pull them from here and push them back into New York.

Read the transcript or listen to the interview here.