The Ball State University community packed Pruis Hall on Saturday night for this year's Back in Black fashion show.
Jhanelle Baker and Karome Bennett organized the third annual show in correspondence to Black History Month.
The theme of this year's show was black films of the 1990s. Using fashion as a medium, students related the significance of several movies to black culture. Scenes in the show were taken from films such as "The Best Man" and "Bad Boys."
The show was co-sponsored by student organizations including Black Student Association, Student Government Association, Spectrum, Phi Beta Sigma fraternity, the Fashion Merchandising Association and Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, among others.
Combining elements of bright lights, modeling and dance, the show allowed Ball State student designers the opportunity to showcase their self-designed fashions.
With great reactions from the crowd, models gracefully strutted across the stage, down the stairs and through the doors of Pruis. Students from different organizations and backgrounds served as models in the show, creating a diverse and multi-faceted cast.
Senior entrepreneurship and finance major Brandon Powe said he attended the event after hearing about it from friends and through Facebook.
"I was actually impressed. I did not expect [the fashion] at all, but it turned out pretty well," Powe said. "It brought you back to the old music and the old movies. It makes me want to go watch them now."
Freshman nursing major Nathaly Ruvalcaba said she came to the show to support a friend and that she enjoyed the show.
"I was really impressed with the designers and the clothes. I didn't even know there were people that [designed clothes on campus]," she said. "The music was great and the acting was great. The dancing was amazing."
Between scenes, the master of ceremonies enlightened the crowd as to how each movie influenced black culture, fashion and the black community.
Creating an interactive environment, the emcee played a game of fill-in-the-blank in which he quoted part of a line from a movie and then waited for the crowd to reply back with the rest of the line.
Senior journalism major Janell Tillman said she enjoyed the clothes and choreography in the show.
"Well, I love the work that Jhanelle and Karome do together. I went to the past two shows," Tillman said. "I actually helped with the first show, so it's nice to see how they developed their ideas and made it as big of an event as it is."
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