I really liked a lot of the designers on Project Runway that didn’t make it so far. One of my original favorites was Kelli Martin. She’s from Ohio, and owns a boutique called Black Market. Her line is called Anti-Label: http://anti-label.com/.
Kelli is such a cute girl, and has one of the best leopard print tattoo that I’ve seen (because frankly, most of them suck).
She is really creative in her designs, and her first dress on PR (which is a couple of pictures down) was made out of bleached vacuum cleaner bags, and burnt coffee filters. How creative! I wish more people would get inspired, and take clothes they don’t wear that often and just alter them. So what if you ruin it, you don’t wear it anyway.. and if you don’t ruin it, you’ve probably made it better, and you’ll have something that no one else has.
Here is Kelli with the dress that she made to win the very first challenge on Project Runway, season 5. It is made entirely out of items purchased at the grocery store, and the back clasps are made from the rings of a notebook!
Here is Kelli with the outfit that got her kicked off. This episode, she was designing an outfit for Brooke Shields in Lipstick Jungle.
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