The Designers Circus welcomes you to a tradition that began over 20 years ago. A tradition of dedication to small Boutique Designers, and connecting them via our Circus “designer socials” to 1,000’s of professional women in New England.

What began as a simple inventory sale, has grown to multiple cities, entertainment, multiple days, and what some have called the best kept secret in America. A unique club.

Portland, Boston and the Cape area have become markets of the Circus over the past years. All together, we reach most of the professional educated high value added women of New England. During the Season, our connections expand to seasonal customers coming from all over the World. Regularly we see women from Connecticut, Rhode Island, California, New York, Colorado, Brazil, England, Israel, Germany, Kenya, South Africa, China and more.

In 2002, after 20 years, as a designer of a contemporary womens collection called “Blanco Negro”, and as a hostess of occasional designer warehouse sales for professional women in Boston, which displayed her own designs and those of her designer friends, Kathleen O'Neill, known as “KO”, established a formal identity for the events. They became known as "the designers circus". Today, with a presence in several New England cities, the Circus has emerged as the premiere clothing event in New England for women.

The Circus consists of 75 to 150 rotating womens boutique designers who get together several times a year to meet customers, show their products, and offer their lines at prices 30 to 90 percent less than retail. These are some of the finest boutique designers one can find in the US. Art -to -wear, chenille sweaters, hand woven cottons, designer fleece, party wear, exquisite quilted silks, cottons, professional linens, and many more fabrics and designs are a sampling of the merchandise to be found at any single event. It's creative dressing for the unique individual.

Designers like: Veranda Wear, Francis Francis, Karen Tate, Maralycee Ferree, Deborah Parker, SF City Lights, Blanco Negro, M Gibson, Christy Allen, Monika Turtle, Treadle, Fiore, Noblu, Snow Skins, DAS, Kindred Spirit, Maruca, Studio 90, Aug 27, Areli, Cottonfield, Karen Warren, and many, many more take part, in the events.

The Circus is held over several days, in venues that are uniquely different. You find it in a warehouse, in a boatyard, a fishing pier, an old gas station, a waterfront, and other unusual venues. Its part of the adventure. Women come to talk, share the experience, meet designers, and try and buy, designs directly from the designers. Much like an ice cream social, the circus has become a social event where women come with their friends, see their old friends, make new friends and have fun. In 2007 the Circus found a permanent warehouse in Allston, just across the river from Cambridge.

We are always adding new designers, adding new markets, and testing some new ideas. All with the objective of continuing to provide our customers with one of the most unique SOCIAL & shopping experiences in the US and probably the world today.

It's all about the CONNECTIONS. Connecting people, designers, small companies, technologies, over distance and time. Connections solve everyones problems.

Our developments and our projects are OPEN. Open to people and to ideas. Fluid. In many ways they are a conscious reaction to the changing business climate and world we live in. A recognition that many participants, are many minds and that is always better than one mind.