High fashion, hoppin' music and a good cause help raise awareness for drunken driving during one local fashion show with a conscience.

The Fashion Victim Fashion Show kicked off on Aug. 29 in the CPACS Building Collaborating Commons with the goal of raising money for a local organization while offering attendees a different perspective on issues that affect everyone: drinking and driving.

Senior Amy Wieczorek was sitting in her UNO community health class six months ago trying to think of ways she could give back to the Omaha community and incorporate her hobbies that would get lots of people buzzing around town.

"I was trying to think about something that would do with my major, but would involve speaking with pageantry and also involve fashion," Wieczorek said. "And I just thought of the fashion fundraiser. It just kind of came to me."

Wieczorek enlisted the help of Mothers Against Drunk Driving to put this show together. For 18 weeks, Wieczorek said she recruited local models, sponsors, fashion designers and hairstylists to help with the show. The community health major said she became personally involved in MADD after losing her best friend, Morgan B. Hohnbaum, to a drunken driver two years ago. Hohnbaum and Joshua Milana, 20, were on a motorcycle in Lincoln when a drunken driver turned in front of them, killing Hohnbaum and Milana instantly.

"Amy came to one of our victim meetings for Mothers Against Drunk Driving and she came because she was interested in making a difference," said Dana McCown, honorary chairwoman of MADD Nebraska. "She kind of had the idea. So she got to know a few of us that got impacted as she has been and then she pitched her idea to the executive director, Sim Reynolds, and Sim just kind of let her run with it. She just a great job and I'm so proud of her."

Wieczorek said it was her time spent with MADD and previous speaking engagements that motivated her to put together this fashion show.