Fashion Calendar
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018 | TAMPA BAY MAGAZINE 79
This ringmaster led
fashion designer Melissa
Dolce’s array of circus
performers and big-top
inspired models.
Saturday, December 15th through
Sunday, March 31st, 2019 The Museum
of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg will present
spectacular avant-garde jewelry, objets
d’art and designs by jeweler and artist
Jean Schlumberger (pronounced Schlumber
zhay) in “Jewels of the Imagination”
featuring over 135 pieces from the
collection of Rachael “Bunny” Mellon,
and in “Drawn to Beauty,” jewelry,
sketches, photographs and objets d’art from
the Tiffany & Co. archives and private
collections at the MFA in St. Petersburg,
mfastpete.org or (727) 896-2667.
Wednesday, December 26th through
Tuesday, January 1, 2019 The Museum
Store at the Museum of Fine Arts,
St. Petersburg invites you to its end-of-year
Clearance Sale at the store at the MFA in
St. Petersburg, mfastpete.org.
SPRING/SUMMER 2019
Saturday, March 16th “Jewels Galore,”
the 26th annual Suncoast Hospice Fashion
Show, Luncheon and Boutique featuring
the best fashions and accessories from
the Suncoast Hospice three resale shops,
modeled by community leaders in a staged
runway show and available in a giant
pop-up shopping area to benefit Empath
Health, a not-for-profit integrated network
of care, will be at Innisbrook Golf Resort in
Palm Harbor. This benefit sells out quickly,
so please call (727) 523-3352, or visit
events@EmpathHealth.org for sponsorships
or reservations.
Thursday, April 25th LAMPLighter’s
annual “Lights Fashion Hope” evening
of food, fashion and entertainment to
benefit Metropolitan Ministries and Joshua
House will be at the Straz Center for the
Performing Arts in Tampa. Contact (813)
205-2010, visit LAMPLightersTampa.org, or
plan to purchase tickets at the door.
Saturday, May 4th The Sterling Society
will have its annual Mother’s Day Tea to
benefit the Dunedin Fine Art Center at the
Dunedin Golf Club in Dunedin. Please
respond to the DFAC at (727) 298-3322.
Saturday, August 24th The Dunedin
Fine Art Center’s annual fashionably fun,
funky Wearable Art Fifteen evening benefit
of a sponsor pre-party, a staged runway
production of imaginatively edgy creations
by artists and designers and an after party
will be at the Dunedin Fine Art Center and
the adjacent Dunedin Community Center
in Dunedin. Please call (727) 298-DFAC
(3322) or visit dfac.org for sponsorships,
reservations and additional information. 9
EDITOR’S NOTE: The fashion photograph
by Win Wolloff on page 20 of this issue’s
Table of Contents features Clearwater artist
Lina Teixeira’s bride and groom of the future
from her “Evolution of Fashion” segment in
the Dunedin Fine Art Center’s Wearable Art
Fourteen fashion show.