Elan Highlights

Do you have a heart to serve your community? Is there something you are passionate about and want to advocate for its cause? Are you a natural born leader or have leadership capabilities that you want to enhance? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then the MBIA Carolinas is looking for you!

Hosting its first inaugural State Pageant November 20-22, 2026 at the newly remodeled Embassy Suites and Convention Center in Concord, NC, be a part of the first 72 delegates that will compete for a chance to win and represent their city for the 2027 International MBIA pageant hosted in Ghana, Africa! Take advantage of the registration specials for the month of June by applying at mbiacarolinas.com

As we are closing out the fourth quarter in 2025, we are excited to finally say that under our brand, Elan Model Management, we will present our own fashion week, " The Black Experience Fashion Week": Carolina Edition. We had this vision in 2018, and after 8 years of its initial inception, through the years of adding, deleting and working things out, we are finally ready to release it to the public! With the BEFW, we want to pay homage to the Carolinas and the HUGE contribution it plays in fashion through the most used fabric: COTTON. Did you know there is a famous street named after the first African American cotton mill owner that came from the Carolinas?! The Carolinas is rich with fashion history with celebrity designers, music artists, celebrity makeup artists, etc and we are here to shed light on who we are as a community in the fashion world! 

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Educate. Celebrate. Dominate. It's what we do. It's fashion.

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All applications for designers, models, volunteers, media will be open January 1,2027

On February 26, 2022, Elan Model Management did our first fashion show production, "You are beautifully and wonderfully made fashion show: shedding light on eating disorders." It was a sold out show. Now. We are doing it again, but on a larger scale.

 

Did you know that over 30 million people suffer with ED (eating disorders) in some form or fashion? For season 2, scheduled during ED week (February 21-28th, 2027) we are going to dismantle the disparities of this silent dis ease that continues to affect the fashion community at large.

 

We are looking for ALL LEVELS of models, volunteers and media. It can't happen without you! 

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All applications will be available in September 2026.

Producing a large production such as our "You are beautifully and wonderfully made fashion show", "The Black Experience Fashion Week" and "Her Knowledge of Becoming, State Pageant with MBIA Carolinas" takes a financial collective effort from our family, friends, and you, our future partners to make our projects the best that Charlotte NC can experience.

 

We value every opportunity to show how when we come together for the greater good, everyone wins.

 

If you would like to partner with us for our 2026/2027 fiscal year, please email, harriett@emmmodels.com or our fashion show in February or fashion week in June or harriett.braxton@thembiapageants.com for our inaugural pageant in November and we will gladly send our partnership deck to you for your review and consideration. To learn more about MBIA Carolinas, go to mbiacarloinas.com

Actors, Models and Pageant participants all work hand and hand. Getting the right information for either industry is crucial and most people no longer trust the "schools" to provide them what they need to become successful in one or both industries. This is why we are now in the beginning stages of building our membership based Guild community.

Sounds like something you need to be involved in? Whether you are a model coach, acting coach, mentor, pageant participant or you just want to be a member, it can't be done without you!

 

Date: TBA

 

Get on our email list to be informed when our membership activation takes place! Email us your information at harriett@emmmodels.com to be added. Put in the subject line: BAMP ME IN!

Setting goals for yourself is one thing, but what if you had the opportunity to hear from visionaries who put their words on paper and then into action?!

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At "A visionaries VISION" seminar and workshop, hear from fashion producers, content creators and others while having the opportunity to cast your own vision during our vision board session.

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Saturday, January 2,2027