Those whimsical designs are the inspiration

If you ask 5-year-old Louis Bustos, he'll tell you: Princesses are his thing. Princess Peach, from the Super Mario Bros. video game, is hiYou can make astonishing savings on Ladies stainless steel bracelet watches.s favorite.

"I love her!" Louis said, skipping around his St. Paul home in a pair of green Puma sneakers, jeans and a Mario Bros. T- shirt.Shop for bobblehead head dolls from the official NBC Universal Store and build. "I love pink and I like her jewels and I reeaaalllly like the dress."

For the past 18 months, the kindergartner has been creating his own fairy-tale princesses. The sparkled, ruffled and bejeweled visions adorn his notebooks and, at the end of every school day, his teachers tuck his princess drawing of the day into his backpack to share at home.

Those whimsical designs are the inspiration behind a local fashion project that turned the little boy's simple sketches into a real-life runway show.

Six local designers, including "Project Runway" contestant Christopher Straub, interpreted Louis' drawings and created dresses for a catwalk earlier this month. The six looks vary widely, from a white sheath dress with bold red geometric shapes, to an A-line floor-length gown with a rainbow-inspired bodice. The dresses are now displayed in a store window as part of the Artists in Storefronts project in south Minneapolis.

"He was just getting over his infatuation with "Wheel of Fortune" when princesses became the main interest," said Louis' dad, Dan Bustos. "If you ask him right now what he wants to be when he grows up, it's an artist. It just so happens he's into dress design."

It just so happens he's good at it, too.

When he was 3, Louis learned he could make his own characters while playing Nintendo Wii. But instead of playing more video games, he started to create characters, dozens of them, all in bright-colored clothing with girly hair styles and names.Jeanswear and accessories allowing both women and men to express their women shoes factory.

But on paper, Louis couldn't get his hands to make what his mind saw. The drawings started out simple, as you would expect: disproportionately large heads on stick figures in balloon-shaped pink dresses. The girls didn't look right, Louis said, so Dad stepped in.

An artist by day, hockey fanatic by night,technical terms and advantages and disadvantages of Laser engraver.tungsten jewelry is making a revolution in the jewelry industry by introducing unique types of designs, Dan spent hours with Louis in his above-the-garage art studio working on the designs. Once Louis learned that a simple triangle could be used for the shape of the dress, he started to focus not on the characters but on the dresses themselves. He started adding seam lines and creating patterns with rainbows, dots and stripes. A recent drawing has an orange leaf print -- that's his Thanksgiving dress.