Pret à Peppermint Patté

Good grief, as it were.

At this week's Fashion Week in New York, more than 20 designers are bringing the Peanuts characters to life in a charity couture show. "At first I thought, 'Snoopy, fashion?'" says Jeannie Schulz, the widow of creator Charles Schulz. "But he was designing clothes that became part of the characters' personalities, and that is what designers are looking for."

Click the link to see sketches of a very short dress with Charlie Brown's trademark yellow with black zig-zag, a shirt modeled after Peppermint Patty's red and white striped shirt, but see-thru where the white stripes should be, and a cocktail dress with feathers inspired by Woodstock.

That was in Newsweek. Here is the press release.

"Good grief" turns into fashion relief as MetLife presents a group designer fashion show featuring exclusively designed fashions for Snoopy on September 7 at 6 p.m. as part of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Bryant Park. Many of fashion's most renowned designers have confirmed their participation, including Heatherette, Isaac Mizrahi, Betsey Johnson, Pamella Roland, and Project Runway alum Laura Bennett. Each designer has taken inspiration from their favorite Peanuts character to create a couture runway outfit, making a bold leap from initialblack-and-white sketch to vibrant, colorful ensemble.

"I love Peanuts because it represents a theme in my childhood to do with not fitting in, with being an outsider," said Mizrahi, who designed a dress based on an outfit Brown would have worn-had he been a woman. "The Peanuts characters, especially Charlie Brown, made the issue of being different easy to understand and gave it a resolution. The outsiders were as wonderful and glamorous as the insiders." Roland, for her part, was inspired by Peppermint Patty for her design.

I just want to see what they come up with for Pigpen.