Recovery Takes Center Stage.
Twice each year during New York Fashion Week, Break Free brings recovery to the runway.
Recovery on the Runway is a completely sober fashion showcase where emerging designers, advocates, artists, models, and members of the recovery community come together to challenge stigma through one of culture's most visible mediums.
Fashion gets people looking.
Recovery gives us something worth talking about.
More Than a Runway Show
The designers selected for Recovery on the Runway are curated for their artistry and connection to our core mission of breaking stigma through fashion.
Many use their work to explore their own experiences with recovery, identity, adversity, and transformation.
Members of the recovery community are also invited to participate in the experience, both on and off the runway.
Together, we create a fashion experience where the things society tells us to hide are brought into the light.
“Recovery not only saved my life, but it gave me a life beyond my wildest dreams. I would never have dared to imagine that I could ever be the person I am today. This show is a manifestation of that and allows me to give to others the greatest gift I’ve ever gotten: a second chance at life.”
— Claire Comai VP, Board of Directors, Break Free
Why Fashion?
Fashion has always been about more than what you wear; it’s about how you wear it.
It reflects culture. Challenges convention. Sparks conversations. And influences how we understand beauty and belonging.
That makes fashion an extraordinary platform for changing the way recovery is seen.
Instead of hiding recovery behind closed doors, Break Free puts these conversations under the lights of New York Fashion Week.
For this reason, every one of our showcases is a completely sober experience. Where we serve bottomless dry cocktails/ mocktails and invite our attendees to enjoy an event immersed in recovery culture.
Walk Your Talk
Break Free invites advocates and people with lived experience to bring their stories to the runway.
When someone early in their recovery sees another person thriving openly, it expands what they can imagine for their own future.
That's why we walk our talk.
