As part of their VOTE! 
2018 initiative, the University 
of 
Michigan 
Museum 
of 
Art partnered with SHEI 
Magazine, Bronze Elegance 
Fashion Show, NOiR Runway 
Fashion and enspiRED to 
put 
on 
a 
voting-themed 
fashion show Monday night. 
Also present were students 
from the Stamps School of 
Art and Design’s Voting is 
Sexy 
class 
and 
members 
from the Ginsberg Center 
for 
Community 
Service 

and 
Learning 
who 
were 
helping about 75 students 
in attendance come up with 
a voting plan for Tuesday’s 
election.
The 
show 
was 
the 
culmination of a series of 
events 
about 
voting 
and 
civic engagement that has 
been going on all fall at the 
museum. 
Lisa 
Borgsdorf, 
manager of Public Programs 
at UMMA, said she thought 
the fashion show was a great 
way to make voting fun.
“We were really thinking 
about motivation to go to 
the polls, and making it fun 
… (and) a way to do that that 

gets a lot of people here, and 
hopefully that translates to 
getting a lot of people to the 
polls,” Borgsdorf said. “It’s 
such a serious time, it’s such a 
big midterm election. It’s very 
important, but we also felt 
like there was room to have 
fun with it for the purpose of 
motivating people.”
LSA junior Sarah Jacob, 
a member of the UMMA 
Student Engagement Council, 
said she felt the fashion show 
was a great way to motivate 
people who were interested in 
the arts to vote. 
“I think it’s a really cool way 
to the keep the conversation 
going 
about 
voting,” 
Jacob said. “I think this 
is one of the years that 
I’ve heard people talk 
the most about midterm 
elections which has been 
crazy because that’s not 
usually the case, so I 
think adding a fashion 
show really brings in the 
arts, and forces people 
who don’t think they are 
political to just think 
about the fact that they 
should be voting.”
The show was split 
into two parts — the first 
focused on what to wear 
to the polls. The models 
walked the makeshift 
runway wearing jackets, 
scarves and jeans, all 
in fall hues. LSA senior 
Kamaaria Sanders, an 
executive board member 
of 
Bronze 
Elegance 
Fashion Show, said she 
thought 
fashion 
and 
politics 
were 
deeply 
related, 
even 
though 
people might not think 
about it.
“Fashion plays a huge 

role 
in 
politics,” 
Sanders 
said. “If you think about 
how people dress when they 
are politicians, they are very 
particular about what they 
pick, as we were particular 
about what we picked in the 
show, like the tones, even 
though it’s something you 
don’t really pay attention to.”
Engineering senior Lauren 
Huang, an executive board 
member of NOiR Runway 
Fashion, agreed with Sanders 
and said she felt fashion had a 
large influence over elections.
“Depending on what (a 
politician is) wearing, it will 
give you the vibe or tone of 
what they’re standing for, 
or what they’re trying to get 
at,” Huang said. “Sometimes, 
if someone’s not dressed the 
right way, you might not vote 
for them or not believe what 
they’re trying to say. But if 
they are dressed the right way 
and look very presentable, 
that 
will 
affect 
people’s 
opinions 
and 
their 
vote 
towards that person.”
The second section of the 
show was America themed, 
with models strutting down 
the runway in “I voted” and 
“voting is my superpower” 
T-shirts or more subtle red, 
white and blue looks, while 
Childish 
Gambino’s 
“This 
is America” played in the 
background.
After the models did their 
final walk, LSA senior Liv 
Velarde, 
editor-in-chief 
of 
SHEI Magazine, closed out the 
show by asking everyone in 
attendance to vote Tuesday. A 
bulk of University programming 
has focused on turning out 
students—only 14 percent of 
whom participated in the 2016 
presidential election. 

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