Sugar "Unchained" New York Fashion Week

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Join Mad Girl Productions for a very special and unique presentation at the Bryant Park Hotel with Sugar "Unchained" on September 13th during New York Fashion Week!

Get your senses titillated and your mind blown while witnessing the underground break through for a night of art, fashion, music, and photography featuring some of the country's top female talent.

With an art and photography showcase,  live interactive art performances, fashion shows, live music performances and more!

The night will begin at 9pm with an ultra unique press and media hour presentation.  Followed by 5 underground breakthrough interactive fashion shows, musical  performances by Weho and Stephie Cohen and the Pedestrian, along with New York's very own, DJ Ultragrrrl (http://ultragrrrl.blogspot.com/) , on the ones and twos to help create that funky Sugar Party vibe!  But the fun doesn't end there, we have personality, Shelly Watson (http://www.shellywatson.com/) , who NY Times calls "Ramnbunctious, over the top and of considerable charm,"  hosting the entire evening.  

Featured Designers: Sans Soucie (www.SansSoucie.ca), Candy Rock Couture (www.CandyRockCouture.com), Totally Trashed Fashion (www.facebook.com/TotallyTrashedFashion), Vintage Joy, (http://vintagejoy.com/joy/about.php) 


Featured Artists & Photographers: Diana Contreras (www.dianacontreras.com), Alexandra Seda (www.alexandraseda.com), Poptosis (www.poptosis.etsy.com), Angie Lagou,  April Davis (www.deadlycreative.com), Maggie Berg (www.maggieheldberg.com), Mad Canvases (www.madcanvases.com), Brittany Hanks ( www.Brittanyhanks.com)


This is a private event and only 50 tickets will be sold to the general public.  All guests will receive a VIP gift box full of goodies from our sponsors, A Sugar Bible, and Sugar Mixtape featuring some of the top emerging and underground music talent from across the country.

For all press inquiries, please contact Rachel at r.bronson@bellapr.com!

Shelly Watson
Host (www.shellywatson.com)

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This award winning, Juilliard Bachelor and Masters 
of Music graduate was also a Metropolitan Opera 
outreach artist and world premiere music collaborator who has 
performed on over five continents with numerous orchestras.

As a stand up comedian, she possesses 
a very distinct way of speaking, performing 
and improvising. Shelly has regularly made 
people pee their pants with laughter  for 
Z100s' Funniest Females, Caroline's 
Comedy Club, Gotham,  & Magnet Theater.

Stephie Copland & The Pedestrians
Performers (www.stephiecoplan.com)

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Like a musical M&M, Coplan's outer shell of crisp, colorful lyrics protects a sweet, gooey, melancholic center of rich, observational storytelling. Blending humor, poignancy, and one hell of a vocabulary, Coplan creates characters ranging from hipster snobs to wild-child hippies to sadistic flight attendants and effortlessly builds entire worlds around them - all within catchy, tunefully crafted pop songs. Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne noticed similarities to his own songwriting, commenting that Coplan seems "destined for the same commercial purgatory as the rest of us 'smart' songwriters."

After forming a large and supportive fan base in Boston while attending Tufts University, Coplan moved to the New York City area and formed Stephie Coplan & the Pedestrians with bassistJohn F. Hebert and drummer Shane Considine. Earning comparisons to the bombastic piano-banging of Ben Folds Five, the dance-punk edginess of Metric, and yet the earnest sweetness of Taylor Swift, the trio has gone from playing intimate clubs in the Lower East Side to receiving airplay on commercial alternative radio alongside artists like Death Cab For Cutie and the Foo Fighters in just a few months.

In 2012, Stephie Coplan & the Pedestrians embarked on a sold-out CD release tour through New York City, Boston, Washington, and Hoboken, New Jersey.  Thanks to rapid word-of-mouth, "JERK!" is currently the #2 most-requested song on Boston's WFNX and is enjoying commercial, internet, and college radio airplay around the country.  The group is excited to spend 2012 writing new music, recording new songs, playing more shows, and making new friends.  2012 is the Year of the Pedestrian - hold on tight. 

Sarah Lewitin
DJ Ultragrrrl (www.ultragrrrl.com)

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An assistant editor at Spin Magazine, and soon helped champion rock bands like My Chemical Romance and The Killers, which led to her starting her own record label, Stolen Transmission. In 2006, New York magazine named Lewitinn as "influential", citing that "she has power in print music".[1] 

BPM Hottest DJs, 2006
Glamour Magazine, “I Want That Job,” 2006
New York Magazine’s 50 Most Influential New Yorkers, 2006
Paper Magazine Nightlife Awards 5-Time Winner (Best DJ, Best Promoters x2, Best Party x2) 
Portfolio Magazine, Featured Job, 2009
Put on the first ever Cobra Starship gig, Annex, 2006
Put on the first ever US gigs for Hot Chip and Maximo Park
The Pocket DJ – Ultragrrrl’s Guide to Building The Best Music Library, 2005 (40,000 copies sold)
Village Voice cover, 2007 

WeHo
Performer (www.wehoaddict.com)

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WeHo is a fashion forward, zombie obsessed, art infused, dance worthy take on the synth pop scene. The producer/performing artist has been compared to a number of musical influences, ranging from Metric to Gwen Stefani, La Roux, and Lady Gaga. Lyrically she brings both vulnerability and charged confidence, that is always honest, fun, and at times controversial.
In the fall of 2011, WeHo hadn’t even made an official debut yet, when her song ‘Addict’ was chosen to be featured in a video for Aussie clothing brand Milk & Honey’s winter collection designed by Ruby Rose (Australian MTV VJ / DJ). Since then, the artist has been hard at work in the studio preparing her first album titled ‘Easy Kill’. The album is set to launch early this fall (2012), with tour plans for the U.S. and Europe in the spring and summer of 2013.
This year has been a good one for WeHo. She was nominated as a top 10 finalist in the HYPE Artist showcase. She is becoming a known face in the art and fashion scene in Miami. And she is currently working with the PACE University Commercial Dance department to take her live show to a new level. You can also expect to see a number of collaborations with other talented artists very soon.

*Free demo downloads are currently available to WeHo fans on facebook, soundcloud, and reverbnation for a limited time until the fully mastered album is released (LIKE www.facebook.com/wehoaddict). 

Sugar Unchained General Admission Tickets

This is a private event and only 50 tickets will be sold to the general public.  All guests will receive a VIP gift box full of goodies from our sponsors, A Sugar Bible, and Sugar Mixtape featuring some of the top emerging and underground music talent from across the country. 
To conserve paper all ticket purchasers will be added to a list at the front of the door.  You will receive a confirmation email upon purchase.  Please bring your receipt to the door just in case.*    
Sugar Unchained Ticket