West 18th Street Fashion Show

Exciting! I almost forgot that the West 18th Street Fashion Show in the Crossroads is tomorrow, June 6th. at 8pm.




This year's theme as you can see on the poster is Summer in Space. The free show will feature 18 collections from a select group of local and national designers:

Clothing Designers

• Andrew Hansen
• Abigail Carolina
• Georgianna Londré Buchanan
• Ari Fish & Peggy Noland
• birdies
• Jessy Bergmann
• Jovana Mirabile
• Joscelyn Himes
• Katie Coble
• Julie Potratz & Rebecca Taylor
• Lacey Doherty
• Lindsay Rae Miller
• Rachel Rolon
• Nataliya Meyer
• Sovannra Yos
• Sára Emami
• Shannon Bailey
• Spool*

Jewelry Designers

• Rachael Marie
• Coki Bijoux
• Erica Voetsch

It will be great! Check out the website for more information & their blog.

Peggy Noland • KC Fashion Designer Spotlight

Peggy Noland • Kansas City

I love Peggy Noland's vibrant work! she's actually the daughter of hallmarkers, and had a fashion show here during our Color Week in August. Jeanne posted about it. She has dressed and collaborated with a few of my favorite bands and musicians, like: CSS, The SSION (who are local to KC as well), Cazwell, and Tilly and the Wall

I got a chance to see the new look of her store, located in the crossroads arts district, not too far away from where we work.

Her tiny shop evolves and changes with her current line of clothes, it's much closer to an art installation. Last spring she said the inside was painted to look like a cheeseburger, then in the summer it turned into a fluffy cloud. Now it's covered in plush teddy bears, rabbits, purple Barney's, Telletubbies, Bubbahs and other children's toys to resemble the inside of vending machine.


The Kansas City Star featured her in this Sunday's Arts & Entertainment section. Check this girl out!

COLOR WEEK 2008

The final Color Week presentation was by Kansas City’s own Peggy Noland.

The 26-year-old is internationally recognized for her work in clothing design. She just returned, last night, from MAGIC, the world's largest clothing conference in Las Vegas.

Peggy is known for bold designs that walk the line of fashion and art. She introduced her new line through a fun and whimsical fashion show. The theme was baby and the models had lavender and white cotton candy hair. Here are the models and hair/make-up stylists.


She has a little 35 foot shop on the corner of 18th and Wyandotte (124 West 18TH Street Kansas City, MO ). Peggy said she liked the small space to be able to inexpensively change the store environment to coordinate with her line every four to six months.

Peggy showed some videos during her presentation. One of them is a tongue and cheek music video. She did the women’s clothing.


Peggy’s work has been seen in Woman's Wear Daily, Worth Global Style Network, NY Times, Glamour, British Elle, Brazilian Vogue, to name a few. You can also find out more about her on her MySpace page.

After the fashion show there was a reception colorful cupcakes by Laura J. - oh for heaven cakes. Oh for heaven's "cakes" Laura they were so pretty! Laura uses a special food coloring to get her icing nice and bright.


That puts a close to Color Week (sniff, sniff). Now back to work!