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WWD: New York Designer Ties Mental Health Initiatives to Fashion Show
Benzinga: NYFW Runway Show Advocates for Change in the Fashion Industry and Beyond
AP News: Break Free NYFW Announces Performers Including AGT’s Wyn Starks
PIX 11: Break Free NYFW Announces Guest Speakers and Performers Including AGT’s Wyn Starks
AP News: ‘AGT’ Alum Wyn Starks Set to Perform at Break Free NYFW Saturday, February 11TH AT Daylight Studios
PIX 11: Wyn Starks Set to Perform at Break Free NYFW
PIX 11: LadyCat Announces New Collection That is a Commentary on Generational Trauma
Textile Press: Alexandra Nyman Announces New Collection
Digital Journal: LadyCat Announces New Collection That is a Commentary on Mayor Adams’ Involuntary Hospitalizations Policy
MarketWatch: Break Free NYFW Announces Their Designer Runway List for the F/W 2023 Season
StarTribune: Break Free NYFW Announces Their Designer Runway List for the F/W 2023 Season
Digital Journal: Break Free NYFW Announces Their Designer Runway List for the F/W 2023 Season
Buffalo News: Break Free NYFW Returns for Third Charity Fashion Showcase
StarTribune: Break Free NYFW Returns for Third Charity Fashion Showcase
MarketWatch: Break Free NYFW Returns for Third Charity Fashion Showcase
Out Magazine: How One Bisexual Designer Is Using Fashion Week to Talk About Mental Health
Yahoo: Mary Lambert Speaks at Break Free
Fashionista: NYFW Designer Showcase Ft. Project Runway's Helen Castillo
Markets Insider: Break Free Announces Performers and Guest Speakers for Runway
Market Watch: When Mental Health and Fashion Collide
Digital Journal: Break Free NYFW Gives Hope During National Recovery Month
No Kill Magazine: Break Free Fashion Show Highlights Mental Health
Forbes: Hollywood & Mind: This NYFW Designer Is Making Mental Health Advocacy Fashionable
WCBS 880: Difference Makers: NY fashion event showcases mental health, substance use awareness
Opera News: Hollywood & Mind: This NYFW Designer Is Making Mental Health Advocacy Fashionable
ENews: Sister TikTok Duo Sarah and Emily Celebrate Down Syndrome Representation by Modeling During NYFW
Seventeen: TikTok Stars Represent the Disabled Community in Powerful Walk at New York Fashion Week
Kare 11: Positive messaging of MN brand 'Love Disorder' reaches New York Fashion Week
La Prensa Media: Mental health, addictions take center stage at New York Fashion Week
NTV: Fashion show in New York, USA with the theme of "mental health"
New York City Local News: TikTok Stars Signify the Disabled Neighborhood in Highly effective Stroll at New York Trend Week
Patch: Mental Health Takes Center Stage at NYFW
Digital Journal: Meet the NYFW Designer Making Mental Health Advocacy in Vogue
Soberocity: Sobriety Takes Center Stage at NYFW
Yahoo: Mental Health and Substance Use Awareness Takes Center Stage During NYFW at Break Free
Fashion Week Online: Break Free NYFW, an Immersive Runway Experience is the Merging of Mental Health & Fashion
PIX 11: BREAK FREE NYFW, A NYFW SHOWCASE WITH A CAUSE, CREATES ALLIANCES WITH ADDICTION RECOVERY LEADERS
KTLA: Mental Health and Substance Use Awareness Takes Center Stage During NYFW at Break Free
Digital Journal: The Merging of Mental Health & Fashion
Time Out New York: New York Fashion Week events you can actually attend
The Sober Curator: Collective Healing: Behind The Scenes At The Break Free NYFW Showcase With Photographer Rob MacNeil
Fashion Week Online: Model Christine Handy: One to Watch This NYFW
The Sober Curator: Becoming Firty – A Look Behind The Brand of Fashion Influencer Jenn Ancelin
The Sober Curator: The Merging of Mental Health & Fashion, An Intimate Conversation With Alexandra Nyman of Soberocity, The Beauty & Brains Behind Break Free NYFW Fashion Show
Soberocity: Break Free NYFW: A Sober Fashion Showcase
Featured in No Kill Magazine
Did you know that employees in creative fields such as fashion are 25% more likely to develop and or experience mental health disorders? We’ve seen the reality of this statistic through real-life tragedy. We’ve lost beloved Kate Spade, L’wren Scott, Alexander McQueen, and so many more. The merge of fashion and mental health is being taken head-on by LadyCat. AKA Alexandra Nyman, a designer, and mental health and addiction recovery advocate. Alexandra created Break Free, a runway show with a cause.
Break Free is on a mission to deliver the difficult conversation of substance use disorder and mental health issues through fashion. Break Free took place on February 14th, 2022, in Manhattan. It is described as, “A space for sober and mental health advocates to share their art with other like-minded individuals in a showcase during NYFW.” They recruited mental health and substance use disorder advocates to walk as models as well as some featured as designers.
Read the full article here: https://www.nokillmag.com/articles/break-free-fashion-show-highlights-mental-health/
Huge thank you to @nokillmag for this incredible write up!
Featured in Forbes
“We had people who have never spoken publically about their struggle with substance use disorders and their mental health struggles, who have been able to find new courage to do so through the showcase and through this platform,” says Alexandra Nyman, the organizer of Break Free who designs under the LadyCat moniker.
Read the full article here: https://www.forbes.com/.../hollywood--mind-this-nyfw.../...
Huge thank you to Cathy Olson from @forbes for taking the time to share my story 💙