Attendees dined on cheeses and fruits as godesses, soldiers, senate members and commoners roamed around their tables, showing off their fine cloths, cardboard swords and shiny jewelry.

Some were getting inspiration for Gala Parade costumes. Others already have their costumes set and were just enjoying the elaborate fashion. All the outfits were crafted from second-hand, upcycled and recycled materials.

The models were in character, regaling attendees with elaborate backstories of their lives, mythology of their deities and stories of how their outfits were crafted. They were enjoying it, too. It was a packed crowd and the air was humming with conversation.

“I didn’t think anyone would come,” Vazquez said.

Sasha Van Cott, dressed as the Roman godess Diana, pulls a bow for Dylan Van Cott and Leslie Dame at the Winter Carnival fashion show at the Garagery on Wednesday night. Sasha warned the attendees that her bow-pulling skills were not quite up to the skills of the deity she was portraying. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Marbone)

But the show sold out.

Vazquez said this show has been a long time coming. She’s wanted to do a Carnival fashion show for a while, but this is the first year it worked out. She only had one word to describe how she felt — “Wow.”

The morning of the show was hectic, she said. Everyone from family to models were working on makeup, hair and sewing.

“It was chaos, it was so fun, it was incredible,” Vazquez said.

Vazquez said dressing the gods and goddesses was her favorite. She designed elaborate and fun costumes with horns, helmets, tridents and arrows.

Cuno chats with attendees at the Winter Carnival fashion show at the Garagery on Wednesday night as they show off their fine linens and horns, representing the Roman god Janus, the god of beginnings, transitions, doorways and endings. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Marbone)

Vazquez has supplies at her Main Street Exchange store — sheets for togas, cardboard for swords, even copies of the Enterprise made their way into the costumes.

Jae Dani shows off the modest robes of a Roman slave to attendees at the Winter Carnival fashion show at the Garagery on Wednesday night. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Marbone)