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September 05, 2007
Designer profile: Meredith Alex

Ask fashionistas about their earliest fashion inspiration, and you’re likely to find a common thread: Barbie. Who didn’t covet those little plastic high heels and matching outfits?

Sometimes we even pulled out needle, thread and scraps of cloth in awkward attempts to create our own designs – primitive, yes, but not too far removed from today's popular “lagenlook” layering trend.

Belfast clothing designer Meredith Alex was no exception. As a girl she’d venture into the attic of her family’s 200-year-old house, pull out vintage clothing and play dress-up for hours.

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Andrea Nemitz is online day editor at pressherald.com.

She graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a degree in journalism and has been at the papers since 1986 as a photo editor, features editor and business editor. She and her husband, columnist Bill Nemitz, live in Bar Mills and can say with relief that all five kids have made it through college.

Her passion for fashion first emerged in fourth grade, when she begged her parents (successfully) for white go-go boots. (Think Nancy Sinatra.) She knew at an early age that those brown Girl Scout oxfords did not work with a blue tulle Easter dress, and has the scowling photo to prove it.



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Leah Foley wrote: A friend sent me this great article. After visiting in Belfast several week...