Kansas City based fashion designer Ari Fish will compete on this season’s Project Runway as one of sixteen finalists. The show, which in its sixth season has switched to the Lifetime Network, is set to premiere Thursday, August 20th.
Ari (pronounced AIR-ee) Fish (26) did not begin her career in fashion, but rather studied painting and ceramics at the Kansas City Art Institute. After graduating, to the surprise of her friends and even herself, Fish began dabbling in fashion design, creating the utilitarian garments desired by her artistic peers and appearing in Kansas City”s Annual West 18th Street Fashion Show. With a true love of performance-art, Fish’s designs lean more toward the conceptual and the avant-garde, an aesthetic sometimes hard to sell to the more mainstream Project Runway crowd. But with a deep self-taught knowledge of designing and sewing we hope Ari Fish can win the respect of the judges as she has won ours. The Rathaus will be rooting her on as the season progresses.
Follow Ari Fish on the Project Runway website here
posted by: Tricia Rock
Tags: art, culture, design, fashion, fashion show, kansas city, style
