Big Shows by Camilo Him

On February 2013, Camilo Him hosted a solo exhibition at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. Entitled: Big Shows, the exhibit is a photo retrospective series that celebrates the excitement and vitality of New York Fashion Week at its infancy in the early 90's. Big Shows includes backstage and front row images of top designers, supermodels and celebrities representing the who's who of fashion and the Hollywood elite - then, as well as today. Camilo's week long photo exhibit took place on February 7–14, 2013 and was attended by top fashion designers, celebrities and seen by over 120,000 invitation-only-attendees. Among the fashion designers that attended his exhibit were: Anna Sui, Carolina Herrera, Ralph Rucci, Carmen Marc Valvo, Patricia Field, Rebecca Minkoff, Dennis Basso, Lubov Azria, Zang Toi, Naeem Khan, Vivienne Tam, Reem Acra, Custo Dalmau and Mara Hoffman. Celebrities included: Sandra Bernhard, Karolina Kurkova, Selita Ebanks, Eve, Karlie Kloss, Nana Meriwether, Sean Young, Nigel Barker as well as Fern Mallis, the visionary-creator of New York Fashion Week. All attending designers, celebrities and notable personalities signed Camilo's iconic photo of the DKNY mural with the Empire State building on the background. It is important to note that this marks the first time so many top fashion designers (not including celebrities) have signed a single item—it had never been attempted before. Camilo donated all 30 (24” x 36”) aluminum prints from his exhibit to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital for auction. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is a charity whose mission is the treatment and prevention of catastrophic diseases in children. Anna Sui commented that Camilo's Big Shows photo exhibit represented her life 's work. Back in the 90's, Anna Sui, Todd Oldham and Marc Jacobs were the hottest emerging new American designers and the "Must-See- Shows" of New York Fashion Week. Special Thanks: Kerry Fitzgerald, Stephanie Archambault and Roger Laudy Aluminum Prints: Image Wizards