Designers

This year’s West 18th Street Fashion Show features eighteen collections showcasing the best in cutting-edge fashion design. Each year dozens of designers apply for the opportunity to show their collections on the 18th Street runway. The selected designers are chosen by a panel composed of local fashion experts.

Clothing Designers

Andrew Hansen

Farrell Clothing Design Andrew describes his design style as having a focus on shifting sculptural forms and fabric manipulation in menswear that combines refinement with foppery. Andrew was a finalist in the Project Runway application process, and says he designs mainly for dandies.
Hair by Amelia Justice; Makeup by Jenn Whiteford and Melissa Hughes.

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Abigail Carolina

Supernova for Abigail Carolina Abigail is inspired by the works of Yves saint Laurent, Alexander McQueen, and Marc Jacobs. She describes her design style as colorful and feminine, but with an edge. She has degrees in art and fashion. Her specialty is women's wear particularly dresses from casual to formal.
For this collection a set of designs was created aimed at capturing the essence of a Supernova. There is nothing brighter in the continuum of the universe than the light that emanates from a distant star exploding...opening up the blackness of space to luminosity that outshines an entire galaxy. Collaboration for this collection includes hair by Bangs Salon and makeup artistry by Amanda Williams for Dollface Aesthetics.

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Georgianna Londré Buchanan

Smart Couture Georgianna is a proud resident of the historic northeast neighborhood of Kansas City. She has been designing professionally for theater for over 10 years, and plans to continue her career in costume design while exploring more wearable fashion designs in smart couture.

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Ari Fish & Peggy Noland

By Birth Peggy and Ari will be collaborating to bring a collection to the 18th street runway. Both describe their design aesthetic as unwearable; Peggy will deliver the sequined-maternal sportswear, while Ari will contribute the tribal-athletic-paternal design. By Birth designs for the extra curricular human.

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Peggy Noland Website

birdies

Birds in Space Birdies is a luxury undergarment and swimwear boutique on 18th Street in the Crossroads Arts District. Birdies describes her design aesthetic as Vintage French Apocalypse, and designs for women who enjoy being beautiful.
Jewelry and accessories will be designed by Erica Voetsch and Coki Bijou; Legwear by Seduzione Leggs Hosiery Boutique; Shoes by Habitat Shoe Boutique; Hair & makeup by the Dollhouse; Styling by Peregrine Honig.

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Jessy Bergmann

Jessy majored in Fiber at the Kansas City Art Institute, and has continued designing and creating since graduating in 2007. She designs for young women who desire an edgy look. She describes her design style as flirty, edgy, and employs fabric manipulation in her garments such as pleating, ruffling, embroidery and adds in sculptural elements.
Legwear by Seduzione Leggs Hosiery Boutique.

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Jovana Mirabile

Jovana Mirabile is a fashion designer born and raised in Kansas, currently studying fashion design at Parsons School of Design and working out of New York City. She has been designing since the young age of 6, and has been creating and constructing her designs since she was 13. She aims to transform a woman into her most confident glamorous self through her clothing designs. Her design style can be described as girlie meets glamorous.
Jewelry designed by Rachel Longgrear; hair by Skyline Salon; makeup by Meredith Ware of Skyline Salon; models provided by Hoffman International Modeling
Agency.

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Joscelyn Himes

Joscelyn creates custom designs and textiles at her shop in the Crossroads Arts District. She describes her design style as elegant with a whimsical touch, and she mainly creates evening and special occasion garments.

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Katie Coble

Katie Coble is a Kansas City native but is currently a BFA Fibers candidate for 2010 at Maryland Institute College of Art with concentrations in experimental fashion and environmental design. Flux, instability, and the use of an object are what most interest her. She experiments mostly with material manipulation to transform garments and objects into different orientations. The wearer creates a performance using an object that does so many things that it can't to one thing specific. Infinite possibilities do not equal one solution, but may just pose more questions and exploration. What drives Katie's work is constraining the variables between these possibilities. Much of her fashion changes volumes and silhouettes and mixes very delicate feminine forms with heavier more massive ones.

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Julie Potratz & Rebecca Taylor

Spacey Julie and Rebecca will be collaborating to bring a collection that will mix their different styles. Julie favors a more whimsical, surreal and sculptural design aesthetic, while Rebecca generally designs with a more classical approach while using bead work and embroidery to embellish her garments.
Hairstyles by Price Leatherbarrow of Humanature Salon. Price Leatherbarrow: Kansas City's most auspicious stylist.

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Lacey Doherty

Lacey loves her kitty cats and finds them a constant source of inspiration. She describes her design style as flirty, whimsical, and art-based. She is based in Lawrence, and has a degree in textile design.
Jewelry by Kaylin Hertel; Hair by Teri Williams from Greenroom Salon.

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Lindsay Rae Miller

Remote Controle Lindsey is a student of fashion design, having received a fashion degree from Stephens College, and completed many internships and specialty studies in fashion which have taken her from Kansas City to New York to Florence, Italy. She is planning a career as a costume designer. Legwear by Seduzione Leggs Hosiery Boutique.

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Rachel Rolon

Swimming in the Galaxies Based in Kansas City, Rachel has attended college at the Kansas City Art Institute. She is planning a collection that will draw inspiration from galaxies, nebula, goddesses and art nouveau. She is planning to create sculptural, transformative garments for the runway. Hair & Makeup by Eclektica Salon.

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Nataliya Meyer

Oblivion Clothing Nataliya works as a tailor and brings a finished look to her creative, edgy garments. She resides in Brookside and hopes to have a successful career in fashion design.

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Sára Emami

Sára is a fashion design graduate with a bright future ahead in the world of fashion, whether it be designing clothing, accessories or textiles. She describes her design style as detailed and colorful, and draws her inspiration from street-wear and Japanese and European fashion.
Hair by Shelby Herrick, Makeup by Brian Garwood and Leila Afzali, Photography by Laura McNellis

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Shannon Bailey

smilla Shannon has been designing for 8 years, and is based in Kansas City. She describes her design style as feminine eclectic, and derives her inspiration from daily life, beautiful vintage pieces, and Japanese art and fabric prints.

Sovannra Yos

Glib Engrish Sovannra has a BFA in Fiber from the Kansas City Art Institute, and is planning to continue her studies with a degree in fashion marketing. She describes her design style as a combination of luxury fabrics and the recycling of existing garments.
Hair and makeup will be provided by Caroline Sulek and Beckie Tuttle.

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spool*

Spool is a boutique for girly-girls and cute babies, located on 18th street in the Crossroads Arts District. Spool will bring a collection that is bright, trendy, and young to the runway. Always a happy collection!
Dresses by Take a Haliday, Amanda Nervig and Jessica Blythe; T-shirt by Pilot Valve; Bags by Kyle Devine; Boots by Cali Roberta; Styling by Caroline Shelton from Chop Tops.

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Jewelry Designers

Rachael Marie

Rachael has been designing most of her life, and will soon be a graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute. She describes her style as vintage, bizarre, and eclectic.

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Coki Bijoux

Jewelry Designer for Birdies. Coki began her formal study of jewelry making in Paris in 1990 while apprenticing under the independent “bijoutier” Thierry de Bourqueney. Her time with de Bourqueney taught the necessity of measurement and precision in jewelry making, while also using that as the foundation for creativity in design. Over the years her work has evolved from the strictly "bijoutier" style to include more organic, earthy elements that reflect her love of forms and objects found in nature. Her collection has expanded to encompass work with stones, wire and metal work, and beading. Says Coki, "In all my work, I try to create something that is unique and original to the person wearing it."

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Erica Voetsch

Erica is a jewelry designer based in Lawrence, Kansas, but she is currently studying jewelry and accessory design in Lahti, Finland through the University of Kansas Metalsmithing program. Her work is primarily made of silver, paired with found objects and tiny, forgotten trinkets. For Summer in Space, Erica will be creating wild headwear for Birdies that blurs the lines between jewelry, accessory and sculpture. Her creative inspiration will be derived from the hot light and swirling pressure of the Big Bang. Exploding to life; infinitely expanding into everything.

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