TRIBUTE 2026, the 14th Tribute fashion show from Mother Model Management, is on Saturday, November 21, at The Post Building, 1190 Cole St in downtown St. Louis.
It starts at 8 PM Central and runs until about 9:30. Seventy models from international and national runways will walk in clothes from local and national designers.
Jeff and Mary Clarke run the agency. They discovered Karlie Kloss, who is from St. Louis, they found Ashton Kutcher in Iowa when he was a complete unknown, and later they brought up Grace Hartzel, who became the face of Saint Laurent. Back in 2014 Mary Clarke described Tribute to St. Louis Magazine as “a celebration of iconic fashion images through the years”, and that is more or less what the show has been every year since.
The Show Is In The Old Newspaper Printing Building
The Post Building went up in 1930 for the Globe-Democrat newspaper. The St. Louis Post Dispatch bought it in 1959 and stayed until 2020, when it was renovated into an event space. The original Goss printing press is still there and runs across the ground floor, and the biggest room, Press Hall, holds around 600 people.
So a fashion show built on iconic pictures is happening in the building where the city’s newspaper pictures were printed for about sixty years. Somebody at Mother Model either planned that or got lucky.
What Earlier Tribute Shows Looked Like
- 2013: the second show closed with a 1990s supermodel segment styled after Richard Avedon’s Versace photographs.
- 2014: disco glitz to gothic glamour in one night, at the Scottish Rite Cathedral in Midtown.
- 2017: Union Station, with Alanna Arrington walking, break dancers on the runway, and a video from Ashton Kutcher thanking the Clarkes.
Every write up from those years describes the same feeling. Families in the front row, the crowd clapping and laughing, models happy to be home. More homecoming party than trade show.
This year’s theme hasn’t been announced. The listing doesn’t give a dress code or an age policy either, so if those matter to you, the Eventbrite page is where they would be added.
On price, the 2013 show charged $20 for standing room and $50 for VIP. This year’s top ticket is more than double that, for a cast of seventy in a far bigger venue.
Where These Details Come From
- Date, time, venue, cast size and ticket prices: the TRIBUTE 2026 Eventbrite listing and Mother Model Management’s event page.
- Past shows and the Mary Clarke quote: St. Louis Magazine and models.com coverage of the 2013, 2014 and 2017 shows.
- Building history: The Post Building’s venue listings.