Aspiring clothing designer Laura L. Mehlinger '01 showcased her creations at the first campus fashion show by a Harvard student Saturday night.

The production, held in the Pforzheimer House dining hall, featured 12 Harvard models and more than 50 designs created by Mehlinger.

To hold the show, Mehlinger and her team first had to convince the Pforzheimer House Masters that the show would be tamer than last year's Black Students Association-sponsored "Eleganza," a fashion show which featured outside designers.

The masters stipulated that models have underwear on at all times, a request with which Mehlinger said she found it easy to comply--her main passion is lingerie.

The models displayed the fashions to music mixed by W. David Marx '01, which he described as "half stuff only I would know or have [and] half stuff people might know."

Among the most notable outfits were a pair of "green butt pants," as tech designer Christian Lerch '04 called them; a short, pink, shiny cocktail dress (its model, Dionne N. Harmon '01, apparently refused to take it off); and a back-less dress with train and red bodice.

The show also included the dress Mehlinger wore to her Dunster House formal last year. She said the short dress, trimmed with red feathers and two red circles over the breasts, garnered a lot of attention.

"People were confused," she said. "They'd say, 'You look so pretty.' I was like, 'That's not the effect I'm going for.'"