Beyond the Runway
Business & Fashion Affair – September 27, 2025
- Date: Saturday, September 27, 2025
- Time: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
- Venue: Dalhousie Student Union Building, Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Hosted by: Celebrate Your Curves
About the Event
Beyond the Runway is not just a fashion show — it’s a movement. Join us for an empowering afternoon celebrating body diversity, entrepreneurship, inclusive fashion, and community resilience.
This unique showcase uplifts plus-size, petite, BIPOC, 2SLGBTQIA+, and models with disabilities. We are spotlighting small businesses, people with disabilities— while telling the real stories of the people behind them.
This is fashion with purpose.
Why This Matters
Fashion isn’t one-size-fits-all — and neither are dreams.
Celebrate Your Curves is building a world where every body belongs — in fashion, in business, and in storytelling. This event is an extension of our mission as a social enterprise:
- To employ and uplift women (like our aunties in India and a sewing hub in Nova Scotia)
- To champion slow, adaptive, and sustainable fashion
- To give platforms to underrepresented voices
Whether you’re a vendor, volunteer, model, or audience member, you’re helping reshape the runway for the better.
Meet the Owners
The faces behind this event
Celebrate Your Curves
- Navi Parmanand
Host
- Tia Upshaw
Meet our Models
Brian George
Jaskirat Singh Pandher
Jenna Weston
Sift Sidana
Morgan Moody
Winnie Brown
Niharika Prasad
Maddie Mclellan
Mia Fournier White
Scarlett Lee Smith
Kimberly Neary
Tylene Smith
Denise McSpadden
Event Photos
