As the designer of Mangled Courtesan, April is driven to deliver a new perspective on fashion by destroying to create and foreseeing beauty in the darkest of places.

Johnston’s designs are created using a strong contrast of hard and soft within textures and silhouette’s.

Combining the old with the modern brings an odd ambiance to her work.

Designing one of a kind wearable works of art from her dark inspiration is her goal as a designer and an artist.

April is a young motivated designer who looks to untraditional dark inspiration and reaches out to her nightmarish dreams for themes and visions as well.

“MISS APRIL” designer of Mangled Courtesan is only 22 years old and grew up in Mooresville, North Carolina.

She currently resides in Savannah, Georgia after graduating from Savannah College of Art and Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree.

April qualified as one of only eight students to participate in a mentorship with American fashion designer Zac Posen during her senior year.

She went on to show at SCAD’s annual fashion show as one of twenty-two students.

Quickly after graduation she left for New York City to take on one of Americas most popular fashion design shows “Project Runway” and placed top 5 in her season of 17 contestants.

Recently April finished filming for “Project Runway All Stars”, set to air January 5th 2012.

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