From the organizers:
“SUA’s Fourth Annual Project Runway student fashion show will take place Tuesday, November 10 at 7pm in the Kansas Union Ballroom (1301 Jayhawk Blvd in Lawrence, KS). The event is based off of the hit TV show, and is a way for KU students to show their talent in the area of fashion design. Student applicants will be given a preliminary challenge from which the final contestants will be chosen. The finalists will then be given three challenges to be modeled and judged at the fashion show. This year we are bringing Korto Momolu, the Fan Favorite from season 5 of Project Runway, as one of our guest judges for the fashion show event. This event will be free to the public.”

posted by: Tricia Rock

From the organizers:
“Headmasters is hosting a Halloween fashion show on Thursday, October 29th at 7 pm! We’ll provide food and beverage (not to mention some HOT hairstyles) for only $5 at the door!

“All proceeds go to Harvesters, a nonprofit food bank in Kansas City, Missouri that is responsible for the collection and distribution of food and related household products in 13 counties in the Greater Kansas City area. Harvesters serves nearly 60,000 different people each week and distributed more than 28 million pounds of food in 2008 alone.

“Come celebrate Halloween with Headmasters and provide support for a great local cause!”

Read an article with more details about the show by Caitlin Donnelly here

posted by: Tricia Rock

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

A look styled by Tricia Rock for the “Drunken Sailor’s Tailor” Fashion Show
Photo via Lawrence.com

In conjunction with Wild Man Vintage of Lawrence, KS The Rathaus is organizing a charity fashion event at The Replay Lounge on October 3rd. We are in the initial stages of planning the event and are still looking for talented designers from the Lawrence, Kansas City and surrounding areas to participate. All you need to do to be considered is email our resident fashionista Tricia Rock at tricia@therathaus.com, with a link to your website or pictures of your work with a super short biography and she will tell you all the specifics needed to participate. Each designer will be responsible for five to eight designs and finding the models to wear said looks. All other general questions, concerns or suggestions can also be directed to tricia@therathaus.com as well. We will keep you updated with news about the event as it comes. Make sure to pass this notice around to anyone you might think may be interested.

To see photos from “Drunken Sailor’s Tailor,” the Spring fashion show put on by Wild Man Vintage earlier this year click here

The password to view the photos is: jakes

posted by: Brent Carter

Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the West 18th Street Fashion Show. Metallic accents, sheer fabrics, geometric angles, and even utilitarian pieces transforming right before our eyes took the stage in this year’s Summer in Space. As day became night on the outdoor runway we didn’t see Captain Kirk, but a much less literal, and more modern, interpretation of space by eighteen emerging designers.

Throughout the night, The Rathaus found three standout collections. These designers brought us cohesive collections with avant-garde pieces capable of catching my eye even after hours of high-end fashion internet browsing.

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 do 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.

Katie Coble

Katie Coble

Katie Coble

Katie Coble

Glib Engrish by Sovannra Yos
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.

Glib Engrish by Sovannra Yos

Glib Engrish by Sovannra Yos

Swimming in the Galaxies by Rachel Rolon
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.

Swimming in the Galaxies by Rachel Rolon

Swimming in the Galaxies by Rachel Rolon

Continue reading for photos from all designers.

Lacey Doherty

smilla by Shannon Bailey

Farrell Clothing Design by Andrew Hansen

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Spacey by Julie Potratz & Rebecca Taylor

Spacey by Julie Potratz & Rebecca Taylor

Smart Couture by Georgianna Londre Buchanan

Glib Engrish by Sovannra Yos

Jessy Bergmann

Supernova for Frock Designs by Abigail Herbert

Sara Enami

Oblivion Clothing by Nataliya Meyer

Remote Controle by Lindsay Rae Miller

Remote Controle by Lindsay Rae Miller

Joscelyn Himes

Joscelyn Himes

By Birth by Ari Fish & Peggy Noland

By Birth by Ari Fish & Peggy Noland

By Birth by Ari Fish & Peggy Noland

Electric Odyssey by Jovana Mirabile, Jewelry by Rachael Marie

birdies, Jewelry by Coki Bijou, Fascinators by Erica Voetsch

posted by: Tricia Rock
photos by: Sara Rock and Tricia Rock
video by: Scott Stewart