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Style Across the Aisle and Nonprofit Witness to Mass Incarceration Partner for 2025 New York Fashion Week Show

In the Room Media announces nonprofit group Witness to Mass Incarceration as the 2025 partner for Style Across the Aisle. The annual fashion show, which takes place this year on Sept. 10 during New York Fashion Week, features a bipartisan group of New York City elected officials wearing local designers for the catwalk. The 2025 edition of the show will be held at the New York County Surrogate’s Court in Lower Manhattan. “Style Across the Aisle was born out of the belief that fashion can build bridges — between neighborhoods, between people and between worlds that don’t always connect,” said Skye Ostreicher, founder of Style Across the Aisle and In the Room Media. Sen. Kevin Parker in Okaigo at the Style Across the Aisle runway show in 2024.  Focus Studios “Partnering with Witness allows us to support creative opportunities that empower system-impacted youth and remind us all that justice, creativity and community all belong on the same runway.” Witness to Mass Incarceration’s mission is dedicated to fostering economic independence for formerly incarcerated, system-impacted and LGBTQIA+ individuals. Recipients of the organization’s support and members of the Art of Tailoring Program, created in partnership with the Queen Economic Development Corporation, are taught how to make and design

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