I'm selling everything and becoming a blogger!!!

I have decided this week that I am going to start selling my designs online! I have found a really amazing website to host my things and deal with the payments (which is what I didn't want to deal with at first). I will soon have my own website up that customers can link to from ETSY so people can look at past things sold and things that are currently selling along with getting a feel of me as a designer and then link to ETSY.com to purchase any items they may want. Right now I am putting up things that I have made in the past so if you went to any of my Fashion Shows and think you have to have one of my designs then go check out if you can still buy it on MegsCouture.ETSY.com!!! Things will be going fast once they are all up!!!

I have also been asked to start writing a blog for DIYStyle.net! This will be the life of Meghan Petty in NY trying to swim in a sea of designers...sounds like a nail biter, right? So make sure to keep up with that if you are interested. It's so Sex in the City....maybe I'll title it Design in the city or maybe better yet Sex & Design in the City!!! I don't know if they would go for the later one but we'll see.

Bookmark these sites:
www.MegsCouture.etsy.com
www.DIYStyle.net

Autism Awareness: Model Citizen Fashion Show

This school year some of the seniors were asked to show their senior collections in a charity event title Model Citizen. This fashion show raised money for the Center for Autism in Columbia, MO. This year around 700 people attended and around $120,000 was raised. The pictures I placed are taken by a wonderful photographer that photographs most of my stuff, Caty Smith. You can look for her soon in some National Geographic things. Whoot Whoot!

Rejectamenta: Breast Cancer Awareness

Every year the Seniors are assigned the task of making a garment from non-conventional materials and the past couple of years the theme has been breast cancer awareness. This year they added the twist of not being able to buy the goods that we were to make the garment out of. We had to use an old wedding dress provided by the department as a base and then had to use our gathered materials.
In a sad irony, my grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer the month before I was assigned this garment, so this is a personal subject for me. She was completely my inspiration. I brainstormed my theme and wrote a story about the dress which I was going to make and then drew up some sketches.
The end result was the dress that you see above made using 90% of the original wedding dress, latex gloves that were dyed by yours truly, and IV tubing underneath the straps for cushion as the dress weights about 40 lb. The story is as follows:

A Gown Like No Other

It is said that the pink gown has a past. Though it may look like it has never been touched or worn, this gown has been around for time only knows. Many have fashioned this dress young and old and some don’t even know that it hangs in their closet. It’s past is told by the mouths of those who have survived it. Each story filled with, for some, heart ache and despair and for others gumption and determination.

See, this dress is a gown like no other. It’s relation with it’s owner is not of beauty as it appears but of invasion.

One out of seven women will come in contact with breast cancer and another story will be added to its history. You may think now that this dress is pure terror but if you look closely you will see that it obtains a more powerful message. A message that is the kryptonite of its survival--hands. Hands that support one another, hands that heal, and hands that detect.

Out of three million women, one million will be the ones that don’t even know that they have breast cancer. Don’t be the woman who doesn’t know. Take the message from this dress.

A Hand Can Help