{"id":33019,"date":"2016-04-15T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=33019"},"modified":"2016-04-18T16:46:52","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T21:46:52","slug":"eco-fashion-show-1992-local-designer-launches-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/eco-fashion-show-1992-local-designer-launches-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Eco-Fashion Show 1992: Local Designer Launches Career"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oxford traditionally kicks into high gear in the days leading up to the Double Decker Festival. With it, we expect music, art vendors, and delicious local food. This year, Jeffery Markese Peavy<\/strong> is making his contribution to the busy festival season with the fifth installment of the \u201cEco-Fashion Show.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEco-Fashion, a style of fashion that generates from the premises of sustainability and unconventional creativity, has gained an extensive artistic interest in Oxford,\u201d and Thursday, April 21, Peavy will launch his career in fashion with 1992,<\/em> inspired by his grandmother\u2019s love for \u201ceclectic and whimsical\u201d 80\u2019s designs.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"two<\/a>\u201cThe show itself is catered to looking at 1992<\/em> through the lens of my grandmother,\u201d said Peavy. \u201cShe was a really big style maven, trying to make a career for herself around the time I was born.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

His grandmother, Inetta \u201cAbby\u201d Quinn, grew up in McComb, Mississippi, and shared the same love for fashion, pursuing a career in modeling. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cShe wanted to be a model, but she was also interested in fashion design,\u201d said Peavy. \u201cThis is in McComb, Mississippi, back then when there was no one talking becoming a fashion designer or modeling. The show itself, as far as 1992<\/em>, articulates her mindset and her fashion in 1992<\/em> and how I\u2019m translating that style and aesthetic of clothing into the collection I\u2019m producing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The collection marks Peavy\u2019s largest endeavor yet as a designer.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cUsually every year I design a couple pieces,\u201d said Peavy. \u201cThis is the first wearable collection of garments that I\u2019m producing and it\u2019s the largest. This collection has 30 looks.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As well as launching his career, Peavy hopes this show will aid in creating a network between himself and others in this fashion industry.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I really see the show doing is providing connections, giving me a clientele.\u201d said Peavy. \u201cThrough those partnerships I\u2019m able to build my brand.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

His hopes of meeting others in the fashion world worked out better than he had hoped.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve already been contacted by another artist in town,\u201d said Peavy. \u201cHer name is Trisha Gibson and she\u2019s a hair designer. She\u2019s doing a fashion show at the convention center on Double Decker weekend and I will be showing a small capsule collection there as well.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Finding models for the show was at the forefront of his mind in the month leading up to 1992.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy principle models, the first girls I contacted\u2014and I would even say my muses for the show\u2014were really close friends,\u201d said Peavy. \u201cI was worried I wouldn\u2019t have enough models for show, but once I booked one model she knew at least one more girl and that\u2019s built up to about 12 models. I even have Ms. Kentucky as a model.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1992<\/em> Peavy has worked to make it an inclusive exhibition.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m working with a range of women\u2019s body sizes,\u201d said Peavy. \u201cUsually I work with double size, that dress form, but I\u2019ve expanded to working with plus-size fashion too.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

1992 <\/em>is scheduled to start at 8 pm at The Powerhouse on University Avenue. Admission to the show is $5. You can see more of Peavy\u2019s work Saturday, April 23, as part of The Social Scene Hair & Fashion Show<\/strong> at the Oxford Conference Center<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the first show I\u2019m doing as an independent designer,\u201d said Peavy. \u201cIt\u2019s still eco-fashion, but it\u2019s not related to the university and it\u2019s not a part of green week specifically. It\u2019s the show that is going to launch my brand for the summer.\u201d\u00a0\"The<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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