Wendy Pepper
| Wendy Pepper | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 23, 1964 |
| Residence | Middleburg, Virginia |
| Education | self taught |
| Occupation | fashion designer |
| Television | Project Runway Season 1 (3rd place) |
Wendy Pepper (born August 23, 1964) is a fashion designer who appeared on the first season of the reality television show Project Runway, which aired on Bravo, from December 2004 through February 2005. She was also a contestant on the second season of Project Runway All Stars. She was eliminated from the Project Runway All Stars competition in the second challenge.
Pepper was born in Dayton, Ohio and now lives in the town of Middleburg, Virginia. 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. This sparked her interest in design and working with fabric. She returned home and continued to learn more about textiles, fabric-painting, and quilting.
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. Her dress sold out within three hours online and within two days in stores. 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 also had noticeable failures, including her outfit for the Innovation challenge and her dress for the Envy challenge.
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