april moore skelton

Twenty years ago, Amy Smilovic was just an undergrad at the University of Georgia, wearing used clothes she bought at Junkman’s Daughter’s Brother, but pining after the dresses in the window at Heery’s Clothes Closet.

Now, she’s a fashion designer with 10 collections a year under her label, Tibi, and has models like Chanel Iman, Erin Heatherton and Coco Rocha showing her creations on the runway at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York City. Wednesday, she hosted a trunk show at Heery’s, chatting with the undergrads she thinks of as “Tibi girls.”