2016-10-12

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Ewa Hlebowicz, a firefighter who has been displaying for Fashion Week, was due to on a runway final year by her fiance Kyle Glickman. We locate adult with them during their business, Elite Fitness Personal Training.
Carlos Ortiz, Mary Chao

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Ewa Hlebowicz is a firefighter who has been displaying for Fashion Week and was due to on a runway final year by her fiancee Kyle Glickman. They both examination together during Elite Fitness Personal Training progressing this month.(Photo: CARLOS ORTIZ/@CFORTIZ_DANDC/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)Buy Photo

Ewa Hlebowicz was usually 14 when terrorists struck a twin towers in New York City. But memories of firefighters risking it all to save lives during a Sept. 11, 2001, attacks sojourn in her conscience.

“It’s one of those events we never forget,” pronounced Hlebowicz, 30. ”That was one of a many surpassing practice of a lives.”

Now a firefighter, Hlebowicz will indication on a runway in Fashion Week of Rochester’s At Your Service uncover Wednesday night. The runway uncover pays tribute to veterans, initial responders, and military officers  and kicks off 4 nights of runway shows during a Inner Loop downtown.

The At Your Service uncover is meant to appreciate all a people who serve, pronounced Fashion Week organizer Meghan Mundy.

Hlebowicz will indication with her fiancé Kyle Glickman. They done conform headlines final year when Glickman, a aptness indication and a personal trainer, proposed to her in a Fashion Week culmination uncover on a runway as Hlebowicz was displaying a spousal gown.

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Model Kyle Glickman of Greece proposes to partner Ewa Hlebowicz on a runway during Rochester Fashion Week. Glickman, a Brighton graduate, has modeled for Under Armour, Kohl’s and Muscle and Fitness

As a uncover of togetherness with firefighters, Hlebowicz and Glickman participated in a 9/11 commemorative step stand this year on Sept. 10 in San Diego. Teams and individuals climbed 110 flights of stairs, a same series as in a twin towers, wearing a name of an puncture responder whose life was mislaid on that day.

They both strapped on firefighting rigging to stand a stairs, only as a firefighters did on that fatal day.

Becoming a firefighter has been a idea for Hlebowicz given her girl and she assimilated Explorers in 2004 to get her feet in a door. In 2008, she was hired full time as a firefighter in Greece.

In her line of work, she saw how disposed firefighters are to stress. In 2014, Hlebowicz began operative with 5-5-5 Firefighter Fitness to assistance revoke cardiac-related genocide in fire service. The nonprofit 5-5-5 Fitness provides giveaway workouts, preparation and motivation to foster health and aptness in a glow service. The classification combines her passion for firefighting and personal fitness.

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Ewa Hlebowicz is a firefighter who has been displaying for Fashion Week and was due to on a runway final year by her fiancee Kyle Glickman. They examination together during their aptness business, Elite Fitness Personal Training. (Photo: CARLOS ORTIZ/@CFORTIZ_DANDC/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)

When she is not during her firefighting job, Hlebowicz teams adult with Glickman during Elite Fitness in Pittsford at their aptness business. Glickfit (www.kyleglickman.com) offers personal training, nourishment guidance, online practical training and organisation classes. Hlebowicz leads a tiny organisation classes as good as personal training and Glickman offers nutritive recommendation and personal training.

► MORE: Fitness indication starts personal training business (2015)

“The idea is to emanate something we can live with,” pronounced Glickman, 27.

In a year given he due to Hlebowicz on a runway, people have stopped Glickman to speak about a proposal. There’s no large date set nonetheless for a wedding. They need to determine on a plcae for all of their friends and family, Hlebowicz said.

Glickman continues to indication for large and high conform print shoots and for companies such as Kohl’s and Target. The couple live in Greece.

In a midst of their bustling operative schedule, Hlebowicz and Glickman are scheming for Fashion Week, The Center for Youth’s largest annual fundraiser. Proceeds go to homeless girl shelters and predicament services. Hlebowicz has been displaying for Fashion Week given a inception seven years ago and cajoled Glickman to join her on a runway dual years ago. It’s now an annual eventuality that a integrate work on together.

“He knows how most Fashion Week means to me,” Hlebowicz said.

MCHAO@Gannett.com

Follow Mary Chao on Twitter @MaryChaoStyle throughout Fashion Week Oct. 11 to 15 for behind a scenes demeanour during a event.

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