Atlanta Apparel Market Interviews

Valerie chats with Kayne of Jonathan Kayne Designs and Heather French Henry about their new designs & collections, and what theyve been up to.

Atlanta Apparel Market Interviews Part Two

Valerie talks to Tony Bowls about his diverse line of gowns, and gets the inside scoop on why camera crews were following him during the show. Well also hear from some pageant title holders who were modeling during the show Miss Kentucky USA Maria Montgomery, Miss Massachusetts Amanda Kelly and Miss West Virginia Talia Markham,

Ten Tips for Finding a Winning Gown

Valerie wants to make sure your evening gown is just a beautiful as you are. So shes developed a fabulous 10-point evening gown shopping checklist that you can use to make sure your pageant gown is pageant fab!

Tony Bowls

With twenty years of retail experience, Tony applies firsthand knowledge of what the fashion-forward customer is looking for to the designs of these extraordinary brands. For the greater part of the last twelve years, Tony owned and managed his own retail outlet. He actively promoted and sold prom, pageant and formalwear collections. During his time in retail, Tony also designed for Miss America and Miss USA contestants. The Tony Bowls Collection was featured in the opening numbers of the 2006 Miss Texas Pageant and America’s Outstanding Teen 2006 Competition, and on former Miss America Deidre Downs as well as eleven contestants of the 2006 Miss America Pageant. Tony has also dressed numerous contestants for 2006 state pageants, including several winners who moved on to compete in the 2007 Miss America Pageant. In fact, thirteen contestants as well as the emcee of the preliminaries and the co-host of the finals wore a Tony Bowls design at the 2007 Miss America Pageant. Tony designs were also featured on the first season of MTV’s hot reality show, Tiara’s Girls. In addition, Tony\'s designs were graced by Barker\'s Beauties on May 16, 2007 during CBS\'s \"The Price is Right Million Dollar Spectacular,\" Bob Barker\'s final appearance in prime time.

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