Meet your West 18th Street Fashion Show designers: Liz Peters

Has it been 10 years already? Yessiree. This year’s incarnation of the West 18th Street Fashion Show, “A Decadent Summer,” will be the event’s tenth annual celebration.

On June 12, Kansas City’s most well-produced fashion fiesta will shut down West 18th Street between Wyandotte and Baltimore Avenues. In advance of the whole shebang, we’d like to introduce y’all to a few of the designers whose collections were deemed runway-ready by the show’s producers.

Starting with … Liz Peters.

“I’ve wanted to be in this show for so long,” Peters says. “It’s been exciting, every time I’ve seen it.”

Peters is a 21-year-old Kansas City Art Institute student, double-majoring in Fiber and Art History. In that picture over there to the right, she’s showing off an incredibly detailed piece she created for Decadent Summer.

“I’m trying to reinvent quilting,” Peters says. “I know it’s so grandma, but I want it to be glamorous and fun.”