SHEER ELEGANCE
FASHION SHOW
Mathews-Dickey Boys’ & Girls’ Club
The Sheer Elegance No.26 Fashion Show celebrated the 250th
anniversary of St. Louis in “Gems St. Louis Style” over the holidays
at the Chase Park Plaza. The show featured Project Runway alumni
designers, celebrity escorts and thrilling entertainment.
The day was all about the girls, with twenty high-school-aged
young women being recognized for their academic, extracurricular and community service achievements, and twenty
elementary-to-middle school girls taking part in a special Meet
Me in St. Louis thematic presentation.
Fashions by St. John and Savvi Formal Wear.
Ron Isley with Emeritus
President Martin L.
Mathews.
The honorees received eight weeks of personal development and
choreography training leading up to their finale dance. They were
escorted down the runway by community leaders, media personalities
and corporate executives.
Mathews-Dickey is a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) United Way member
agency that provides educational enrichment, cultural arts
and health, sports and recreation, and summer day camp
programming for thousands of area young men and women.
International
model Jennie
Runk showcases
St. John’s.
The Mathews-Dickey
“Littles” become Fair
Fashionistas to the tune
of Meet Me in St. Louis.
Sheer Elegance Co-Chair
Vanessa Keith, Centene’s
Keith Williamson and
Mathews-Dickey Interim
President Debra Denham.
Sheer Elegance Chair
Donna Coble with
emcees Debra Bass
of the St. Louis PostDispatch and KMOX
Radio’s Debbie
Monterrey.
Shan Keith, finalist in Project
Runway, Under the Gunn.
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American Family Insurance’s Britt Stender,
actress Anna Maria Horsford and
Co-founder Martin L. Mathews.
Photos courtesy of Mathews-Dickey
Boys’and Girls’ Club
Gold record-selling artist Ron Isley,
American Family Insurance’s Britt
Stender and