Wendy Pepper

Background

Pepper was born in Dayton, Ohio and now lives in the town of Middleburg, Virginia.

Education

She graduated high school in 1982 from The Madeira School and then attended the University of Washington in Seattle, earning a degree in anthropology. While in college, Pepper studied abroad in Nepal and began to sew carpets with local Nepali women.

Career

She was also a contestant on the second season of All Stars. She was eliminated from the All Stars competition in the second challenge. This sparked her interest in design and working with fabric.

She returned home and continued to learn more about textiles, fabric-painting, and quilting.

Runway clothes

Her dress sold out within three hours online and within two days in stores. She also had noticeable failures, including her outfit for the Innovation challenge and her dress for the Envy challenge.

Fashion Week

As a finalist on, Wendy was given the opportunity to display her "Thrill of the Hunt" fashion collection to a large audience at New York Fashion Week. She came in third in the final competition, with Jay McCarroll winning.

After, Pepper opened her own store in Middleburg, Virginia and also continued to work with individual clients.

She appeared on the front page of The Georgetowner magazine in Washington, District of Columbia, in the New York Post, The Washington Post, Loudoun Magazine, the Middleburg Eccentric, and Factio magazine. She took part in two other Bravo television shows: Celebrity Poker Showdown and Battle of the Network Reality Stars. She also took part in the interview process for contestants for season two of Wendy showed her debut line, outside of, on April 11, 2006 in Washington, District of Columbia She also continues to show new lines.

Her previous ready-to-wear line was shown at the 2007 Cleveland Fashion Week in Cleveland, Ohio.

Her line, Pretty World, was being sold exclusively through Highcliffe Clothiers. Currently, Pepper"s exclusive clothes line is now only available at District of Columbia Leather and Crafts, situated in Boyce, Virginia.

Achievements

• Pepper won two of the challenges, with her design for the Banana Republic challenge and the Grammy dress for Nancy O"Dell. Her win in the Banana Republic challenge allowed her dress to be sold in select Banana Republic stores in the United States as well as online. As a result of her win in the Grammy dress challenge, Nancy O"Dell wore an altered version of Pepper"s dress to the 2005 Grammy Awards, despite some expressed reservations from the judges. She had a brief cameo appearance in Bravo"s Project Jay, an hour-long documentary on the winner of the first season of.