ANGELA JOHNSON FASHION SHOW AT
CLARENDON HOTEL’S NEWLY REMODELED POOL CATWALK
 

Local Fashion Designer, Angela Johnson, will be Arizona’s first designer to have a fashion show on the Clarendon Hotel’s newly renovated pool catwalk with her Fall 2008 “Menagerie” line
 
 Angela Johnson, Arizona’s most prominent fashion designer, will unveil her Fall 2008 line entitled “Angela Johnson’s Vaudeville Style Mystery Menagerie” Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 8:00 pm at the Clarendon Hotel’s pool catwalk at 401 W. Clarendon in Phoenix.  The event is free to store buyers and press and is also open to the public at $10 a ticket which can be pre-purchased or reserved on www.angelajohnsondesigns.com .     
 
 Voted Best Boutique Hotel by the Travel Channel, the Clarendon Hotel will open its pool area to fashion show attendees at 8:00 pm.  Hors d’oeuvres, desserts, cash bar and music by DJ William F-ing Reed and DJ Jas will be provided.  Hosted by Carey Pena of 3TV, the highly anticipated fashion show and Vaudeville style performances including pyrotechnic burlesque show by Pyra Sutra, will begin promptly at 9:00pm. The Menagerie line will be worn by models from Arizona’s most reputable agencies with hair styled by E’s Urban Hair and make up by Ginger Champagne.  
 
 As co-founder of the now dissolved Arizona Fashion Foundation / LabelHorde Fashion, Angela has coordinated and shown work in countless multi-designer fashion shows including an annual 60-designer fashion show entitled Fashion Ball and the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Arts quarterly “SMoCA Nights” shows.  This exciting event will be Angela’s first solo fashion show since “Sideshow Freak in the Padded Room” which was held at Loft 19 Studios in 2005 and attracted over 300 spectators.  “I’m excited to have my own solo show at the Clarendon Hotel” says, Angela.  “I’m always so busy coordinating multi-designer shows that I don’t get a chance to focus solely on my own line as much as I would like to. I’ve put a lot of work into this new collection and the Clarendon Hotel, with the built in pool runway, will make the type of impact that I’m hoping will highlight my hard work and create a memorable show.”
 
 Angela Johnson is an award winning clothing designer with over 13 years in the fashion industry. Angela handcrafts cutting edge, avant-garde apparel under her name.  Angela's clothing is sold online, in boutiques nationwide, and at her fashion and trunk shows.   She got her start working in design and production for X-Large Clothing, the line owned by Mike Diamond of the Beastie Boys and X-Girl, the line owned by Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth.  Today, she designs under her own line and has been honored as Fashion Group International of Arizona’s Rising Star in 2004, Artist of the Year by the Scottsdale Cultural Council’s Chairman’s Committee, Chicest Local Designer by 944 Magazine in 2007 was a finalist in the Scottsdale Fashion Week’s Designer of the Year contest in 2007.  She coordinates and exhibits her own line in the fashion show portion of the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Arts SMoCA Nights quarterly event and co-founded Arizona Fashion Foundation / LabelHorde Fashion.
 
 Sponsored by: The Clarendon Hotel, 3TV’s Carey Pena, Eric Hendrix, Pyra Sutra of Scandalesque, DJ William F-ing Reed, DJ Jas, E’s Urban Hair, Ginger Champagne, Bunky Boutique, Drama Queen Productions – Jen Deveroux, Humble Entertainment, Rebecca Devaney, Bigger Pictures Images, Tony Zeh, Ally Burnham, Lesley Oliver, Kristin Dinnis.