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Apr 11, 2006

Project Wendy

Remember season one of Project Runway (fashion-speak translation: SO last season)? You know, back when the show was a guilty pleasure and way before you developed a doomed, unrequited crush on Daniel Vosovic? Surely you haven’t forgotten season one finalist Wendy Pepper, the “Mom from Virginia” designer and arch nemesis of fellow finalists Kara Saun and Jay McCarroll. She was the one who — whether because of reality TV necessity or her actual personality traits…

Aug 18, 2005

So Hot Right Now: Indie Designers Online

“Hey, where’d you get that?!” Following shopping trips to N.Y.C., Alishia Frey and Grace Wang found that they were constantly stopped on the streets of D.C. by fashionistas inquiring about their hip shirts, cuffs, earrings, etc. While many a fashionable gal hides her style secrets like her jeans size, Frey and Wang last month launched unsungdesigners.com to bring indie designer creations to what Frey calls D.C.’s “seriously lacking market.” Unsung is a women’s clothing and…

 
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