Omaha Fashion Week, the event’s owner Brook Hudson and producer Mary Reynolds-Secher and the fashion designer Kelli Molczyk have issued a joint statement regarding the controversy that upended last winter’s event.

During Molczyk’s show on Feb. 28, which was part of OFW, some attendees took offense for what has been described as an apparent swastika on the back of a jacket. Some attendees described the emblem as a hate symbol. After being banned from the event, the designer said it was a pinwheel pattern from a repurposed quilt.

In an Instagram post after the incident last winter, Reynolds-Secher had referred to being “appalled at the sight of a hate symbol walking on the runway. Those who know me know I staunchly stand against everything that symbol stands for. The anger that it ev

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