Peggy Noland is an American fashion designer in Kansas City, Missouri. She has been a teacher in the Fiber Department at the Kansas City Art Institute since 2008.
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Biography
Noland is originally from Independence, Missouri. She majored in Religious Studies at Rockhurst University, then worked as a production manager for a New Delhi clothing company in 2006. On returning to Kansas City, aged 23, Noland opened a boutique in the Crossroads, Kansas City, called Peggy Noland Kansas City. Kansas City's The Pitch awarded her with their Design/Fashion MasterMind Award in 2006. In August 2009, Noland opened a second boutique for a month in Berlin, Germany with the help of the Kansas City Artists Coalition and a grant from the Lighton International Artist Exchange Program. She plans to open in another location in Berlin in 2010.
Her work uses bright colors, full-body leotards and patterns. Her designs have been worn by several musicians, including Lovefoxxx from Brazilian band CSS, Kianna Alarid from the Omaha, Nebraska band Tilly and the Wall, Fischerspooner, Chicks on Speed and The Ssion. Actress Alia Shawkat has also bought one of her works. In 2009, she worked with Bec Stupak.
Her work has appeared in fashion and music magazines including WWD, Elle, Elle Japan, Dazed and Confused, Vogue, British Vogue, Nylon, Nylon Japan, Spin, Rolling Stone, and Missbehave, as well as fashion blogs, like TeenVogue and StyleBubble. Peggy Noland's unique clothing has also been used by popular stars such as Rihanna and Miley Cyrus.
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Aesthetic
Peggy Noland's artistic style has been described as "white trash meets high class". Her aesthetic is commonly referred to as a mixed style of meth addicts from her hometown in Independence, Missouri combined with an eccentric, Parisian old-lady. She is notorious for taking corporate logos and morphing them into an art form of their own. Her belief in consumerism and branding has led to a "mix of LA pop art and KC gutter-punk" She wears a very distinctive hairstyle: the hair is shaved on top, while leaving the back and sides long. She changed her style a few times, first having sides and back shaved, with long hair on top, since 2013 until now (2017) she only shaves the top bald.
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