Styles Beyond Stereotypes
Challenging Stereotypes. Celebrating Individuality.
Styles Beyond Stereotypes is a one-of-a-kind fashion show celebrating the abilities, personalities, and individuality of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Hosted by The Arc of Northeast Colorado, this memorable event brings models and designers together for an evening of creativity, fashion, and inclusion, all with a larger purpose: challenging stereotypes and changing perceptions about disability.
About Styles Beyond Stereotypes
Changing Perceptions and Creating Opportunities
Styles Beyond Stereotypes provides a space for people with disabilities to take center stage and show the community who they are.
Designers use creativity and vision to transform primarily thrifted materials into one-of-a-kind looks tailored for models with disabilities. On the runway, each model has the opportunity to express their personality, confidence, and individuality.
The result is an event that celebrates fashion while encouraging audiences to look beyond stereotypes and recognize the abilities and potential of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Our Mission
Styles Beyond Stereotypes aims to dismantle false stereotypes surrounding intellectual and developmental disabilities and help open doors to greater inclusion and opportunity.
Behind every diagnosis is a person with their own strengths, goals, personality, and potential. By fostering occasions for people with disabilities to be seen and celebrated, Styles Beyond Stereotypes encourages the community to recognize what is possible when everyone has the opportunity to belong.
2027 Styles Beyond Stereotypes
Event Information
Join The Arc of Northeast Colorado for another unforgettable evening celebrating fashion, creativity, individuality, and inclusion.
Date: [Event Date]
Time: [Event Time]
Location: [Venue]
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Additional event information will be announced as details are finalized.
Meet the Models and Designers
The People Behind the Runway
The models are at the heart of Styles Beyond Stereotypes. Each person brings their own personality, talents, interests, and story to the runway. Designers introduce another layer of creativity to the event, producing unique looks that celebrate each model's individuality and help bring their personality to life on the runway.
Support Styles Beyond Stereotypes
Become a Sponsor
Styles Beyond Stereotypes is made possible with support from businesses, organizations, families, and community members who believe in creating greater opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Sponsorship provides the chance to support the event while aligning your organization with a meaningful effort to challenge stereotypes, encourage inclusion, and create positive change in the community.
Thank You to Our Sponsors
The support of sponsors helps bring Styles Beyond Stereotypes to life and makes it possible to continue sharing its message of inclusion with the community.
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See Styles Beyond Stereotypes in Action
Styles Beyond Stereotypes has brought models, designers, families, sponsors, and community members together for memorable evenings centered around creativity and inclusion.
Take a look back at highlights from previous events.
2025 Styles Beyond Stereotypes
2024 Styles Beyond Stereotypes
Celebrate individuality. Challenge stereotypes. Help create more opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to be seen, valued, and included.
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Contact Us
Have a question about Styles Beyond Stereotypes, registration, sponsorships, or the upcoming event? The Arc of Northeast Colorado team is happy to help.