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August 26, 2023
12-5 p.m.
Aliceanna Street in Harbor East
Chances are, if you turned out at FashionEasta, you were a fashionista.
This was the tenth year that Harbor East put on its fashion extravaganza right smack-dab in the middle of Aliceanna Street, offering food, drink, and a fabulous fashion show featuring pieces from neighborhood retailers. Naturally, many of those in attendance were those who fancy fashion, but some were also quick to assert that, to them, the fashion they were flaunting wasn’t anything extravagant. Rather, it’s their norm.
“To be honest, I always get dressed up, ” said Crystal Polk. “That’s the way I live life, ” confirmed Monica Yu.
And what about 6-year-old Cimone Sims? Was even she a fashionista?
“Most definitely,” responded her mother, Angela Sims, with a laugh.
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Left to right: Recent college grads: Justine Decker; Gianna Danese; Kayla Nitahara; Lindsay Schuster
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Left to right: Donna Foxwell, Advantage Prosthetics & Orthotics clinical director of patient care; Theresa Brady, Baltimore County Public Schools supervisor
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Left to right: Gloria Bond, RN/hairstylist; Crystal Polk, minister/behavioral health specialist
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Left to right: Daniel Robinson, GKV media director; Charles Hines, Tate Inc. HR generalist
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Left to right: Shahana Srivastava, school director; Hayron De Sousa, Christian Dior sales consultant; Jacqueline Easley, writer; Monica Yu, lawyer/stay-at-home mom
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Left to right: Nicole Nesbitt, Brown Advisory head of sales/client service; Emma Nesbitt, Charm City Run sales teammate; Beth Rosenwald, RBC Wealth Management managing director
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Left to right: Cori Law, T. Rowe Price IT infrastructure operations specialist; Asia Law, Johns Hopkins Health System business intelligence developer
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Left to right: Kristal Brown, Drexel University assistant professor; Hasti Jamshidi, Johns Hopkins Universty doctor of pharmacy; Curtis Hubbard, student; Jacqueline Blackwell, retired communications director

Left to right: Cimone Sims, 6; Angela Sims, Durant Bailey Group principal
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Left to right: Cricket, “super mutt”; Meredith Appelman, Inovalon real estate portfolio manager; Bronwyn LeGette, Cushman & Wakefield office leasing manager

Left to right: Baltimore-based jewelry designers: Shana Kroiz; Rebecca Myers
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