Rust and Rag Trash Fashion Bash gallery style Detroit honors Tangent

  Do not be offended if your style stone McGee describes as his "fashion trash." For McGee, creator of Saturday Rust Rag & Trash Bash mode Tangent Gallery, it simply means that you have a unique style.

"Does Detroit fashion style trash," says Stein, who work alongside Wendi Magee, owner of Artifex Detroit for the event. "We went to denote the title of garbage that this is not your average fall fashion every day. This is a celebration shows that the style is not necessarily the blow. This is the scene, the atmosphere and the way you swing their prey. "

Rust and Rag is a launch party for www.artifexdetroit.com, a website that sells creations Detroit cent eric (think t-shirts, bags and belts) made from recycled materials are used. During the event, Magee McGee and present designs Artifex and the laboratory, which is owned by McGee.

"Wendi and I with the things that we have because we have the opposite things that work perfectly." Says McGee "It is beyond, I Fund. Makes you bags, I make jewelry. It goes together to make a bigger picture, and we believe that cooperation is the key to greater things."

Saturday event is the music of Bride Stripped Bare acts and fire and burlesque. Performance artist Satori Circus will emcee.

"We are really excited about this show," McGee said. "I think there is a large selection of what we think the city is have all. Detroit is a playground for adults who want to bring a hand have entertainment, music, fashion and the people, especially together. "

19:00 clock Saturday, Tangent Gallery, 715 East Milwaukee, Detroit. 313-873-2955. $ 5.

Hair Wars After Party: After the main event on Sunday Cobo, Hair Wars is back on the club scene - the place where it all began 28 years ago.

"I did not really have high expectations for the segments of the hair in parts in 1985," creator David Humphries, says the hair wars created as an event of short duration in a Detroit nightclub. "All I wanted was a promotion of hair four exciting weeks for hairdressers who came to my party, while we (planning to move) were the next gag."

The gimmick Humphries took a life of its own and has quickly become an annual must-see extravaganza Cobo and cities across the country. Over the years, wars hair was almost a theatrical event, use the designer in order to create works of art from live models hair.

"The reason it took so long because it's true," said Humphries, "This is a big part of our culture in Detroit and America. Hair and entertainment venues .... This has not been done, as it more like the disco rap game it was -. strong underground movement ".

The after party is at Club Cascades, models and stylists of the show, is expected to interact with customers. More than 30 designers and 250 models are expected to participate.

"The hair fashion has become a more complex display creations of hair, including hair develops more over-the-top fantasy (because) designers should keep in mind each other," says Humphries. "The hairstyle that has stood out the most over the years is the Hairy-Copter. He took us to" "are dressed, and it is still valid. Both of our hostesses Hairy-Copter" The Oprah Winfrey Show back when they to greet guests April 28 at Cobo. "