Bellarmine College Preparatory announced that "The Boys are Back in Town!,” its 53rd Annual Mothers' Guild Fashion Show for Financial Aid, will take place on November 30, 2007 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, first in a luncheon setting and later during a black tie dinner dance.
“This year’s fashion show theme The Boys are Back in Town is centered on who and what we love most of all, our boys,” said Debbie Rossetto, 2007 Fashion Show Chair. “For the past 53 years, Bellarmine moms have joined together to form a very unique and special bond that reaches across all boundaries to deliver one of Silicon Valley’s most anticipated fund raising events while achieving our goal of making a Bellarmine education a reality for young men who may not have this opportunity.”
“For 156 years, Bellarmine College Preparatory has maintained the tradition of educating adolescents while developing them to be men for others,” said Fr. Paul G. Sheridan, S.J., Bellarmine’s president. “Through their efforts with this long-standing annual fashion show, the Bellarmine mothers are role models for their sons, exemplifying what it means to be women for others.”
All proceeds from the 2007 Mothers’ Guild Fashion Show for Financial Aid will be used to provide direct financial aid for qualified Bellarmine students and benefit the school’s Financial Aid Endowment. Nearly 20 percent of the student body will receive financial aid this year.
Since inception of the first fashion show in 1954, the Mothers’ Guild has donated more than $3 million to Bellarmine’s financial aid program. During the past three years combined this sellout fashion show has contributed more than $700,000.
“The Bellarmine community is diverse,” said Mark Pierotti, Bellarmine’s principal. “Through the money raised at this annual event highly qualified students, who otherwise would not be able to attend, will benefit from a Catholic education in the Jesuit tradition.”
Men’s, women’s and teen’s fashions will be presented in two shows on November 30, 2007 at the Fairmont Hotel San Jose. Luncheon show guests are predominately women while the black tie dinner dance attracts couples. Fashions selected for this year’s show will be modeled by professionally trained and choreographed Bellarmine seniors, faculty and mothers as well as by senior girls from Bay Area high schools.
“The Boys are Back in Town” will feature clothing designs from Santana Row and Westfield Shoppingtown Valley Fair: Eli Thomas, Macy’s, Jessica McClintock and Club Monaco. Photography provided by Al Bacosa of Bacosa Photography, hair styling by Dustin David Salon and make-up by Urban Decay. San Jose Magazine is the exclusive print media sponsor for the Bellarmine Fashion Show.
The annual Bellarmine Fashion Show is traditionally a sold out event with guests attending from throughout the Bay Area including the following counties: Santa Clara, San Benito, San Mateo, San Francisco, Alameda, Santa Cruz, San Joaquin and Contra Costa.
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