While most of the cast from the sixth sea­son of Project Run­way chose NYC’s Fash­ion Week to host their debut pre­sen­ta­tion, Shirin decided to part­ner with The Fash­ion­istas and house her first ever fash­ion show in down­town Dal­las.

Askari, a Dal­las native and recent grad­u­ate of the Uni­ver­sity of North Texas, audi­tioned for Project Run­way after nix­ing plans to head to Europe due to knee com­pli­ca­tions. With just three days until the appli­ca­tion dead­line, Askari entered the com­pe­ti­tion. With a lit­tle luck and a lot of tal­ent, she breezed through the inter­view process and was asked to join the show. After sur­viv­ing the major­ity of the way through the sixth sea­son (and famously hav­ing her first reality-show melt­down), Shirin was cut just three episodes away from the finale. She will now get her chance to show­case her sig­na­ture designs (fresh twists on lady­like clas­sics) very soon.

What an absolutely AMAZING night! I want to thank every­one who worked on this event. To all the spon­sors, the Fash­ion­istas, Jan Strim­ple, Janet Fresquez, Betty Reiter, Bella, hair and makeup (Blanc)… to the mod­els, the peo­ple who help set up, Light Dal­las, F2’s, dressers… SOOO many peo­ple made this night what is was and I want to thank each and every one of you!

The night was a total suc­cess!! It was a sold out show filled with press and over 400 peo­ple in atten­dance.  All the pro­ceeds went to the F2 schol­ar­ship fund and I couldn’t be more thrilled that I was able to help such a won­der­ful orga­ni­za­tion!  If you missed the show you can watch the video on my home page. After walk­ing the run­way and going back­stage I felt the tears com­ing on.  So much time and work  for 15 min­utes of absolute bliss

I think Jan Strim­ple said it best “You could feel that the  room was filled with so much emo­tion, love, and sup­port.”  Thanks again to every­one who made this such a mem­o­rable night!! Love you all.

Pho­tog­ra­phy by James Edward.