L.A. FASHION & FASHION WEEK

L.A. is presently regarded as the second major fashion center of the country

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Photo by Darryl Reece


**This is copied from the L.A. Fashion Week web page-since I missed it, and don't have any plans to go over to Los Angeles at the moment.

Fall 2012 collections started today(3/9) with installations and runway presentations at Ace Gallery, produced by the talented and spirited Concept Fashion Week team. Showing at Concept on Friday and Saturday are MIKE VENSEL, HENRY DUARTE, BRYAN HEARNS, PAUL REDMOND, MEMENIC, NUVULA, S&G, CHAMBERS, THAI NUYGEN, CURLY V, BELLE N MATISSE, ELAINE ALLEN, ZUBAUEN, GYPSY JUNKIES, LAILI LAU, NAMI, and JEN AWAD.
One of the most inspired events of the week is a benefit for the A+D Museum with CELEBRATE THE WEARABLE as the gala theme on Saturday, March 10. A runway show at 8pm and live auction of wearable creations by 40+ designers, architects, artists and creators including KARIM RASHID, RICHARD MEIER, TRINA TURK, JONATHAN ADLER, STEWART + BROWN, JOHN BALDESSARI, DIANA ENG, FITZU, LOUISE GREEN MILLINERY, JEAN-CHARLES DE CASTELBAJAC, VALERJ POBEGA and L.A. EYEWORKS make this a must-see for the design-inclined.
On Monday March 12, Style Fashion Week will pick up the ball with a series of runway shows through Friday at Vibiana, one of the most beautiful venues in Los Angeles. Collections on the runway this season include SKINGRAFT, MILA HERMANOVSKI, L’UNE COLLECTION, STOP STARING!, INA SOLTANI, XCVI, FURNE ONE and OCTAVIO CARLIN. The week concludes on Friday with GO RED for Women Celebrity Red Dress Fashion Show for the American Heart Association. These events coincide with Market Week in the showrooms and trade shows (Coeur, Designers & Agents, Focus and more) in the wholesale showroom buildings clustered near the intersection of 9th & Los Angeles streets in the Fashion District.
Peppered throughout the week are the individualists and the pioneers, those who don’t conform to a traditional presentation style or collective venue. Among these is PROJECT ETHOS which has — for many seasons now — inspired both club-goers and the press with presentations of multi-faceted creative talent in Hollywood and now broadcasting on the internet. New this season is an ECOCOUTURE event at the W Hotel, and returning with individual presentations are designers SUE WONG (at her atelier) and LAUREN ELAINE (at the W Hotel.) Plus more emerging designers and fashion happenings populating the fashion calendar daily.
Fashion Week closes with LA Fashion Weekend March 16th-18th, the tented extravaganza at Sunset Gower Studios captained by Mikey Koffman, a fashion industry professional and showroom owner turned reality TV personality and LA Fashion Week impresario. On Friday BETSEY JOHNSON, DINA BAR-EL and VILORIJA will take the runway. Featured brands on Saturday include ASHLEE BROOKS, SARAHI HOUSE OF FASHION, LAHA THE GLAMOROUS GIRL and SKINEEZ SKINCAREWEAR. LA Fashion Weekend has corralled the support of local news KTLA 5 to broadcast the Sunday presentations which have an appropriate reality-celeby-TV bent: GOSSIP GIRL BY ROMEO & JULIET COUTURE inspired by CW’s Gossip Girl, LIZZIE PARKER from the new Fashion Star TV show, and ALEXIS BY TAL SHEYN, designed with Alexis from Real Housewives of Orange County Season 6.
For details, check the Calendar. Please note that most events are INVITE ONLY and not open to the public.
I will continue to update on L.A. fashion



Concept L.A Fashion Week brings art, fashion and culture together
L.A. Times March 12, 2011 | 8:41pm


Concept Los Angeles at ACE Gallery / photo by Image House LA


Sachika Spring Summer 2012 / Concept Los Angeles
/ ACE Gallery / Photo copyright Sascha Knopf Image House LA The events comprising “L.A. Fashion Week” which are being held this weekend through next week may have some slapdash scheduling and production, but you wouldn’t know it from the Concept L.A event at the Ace gallery in Mid-Wilshire. The second floor space hosted several local designers as well as an artist duo called The Date Farmers Friday night, drawing a sizable crowd, as well as shows and installations from designers both established and brand-new. Designers Mike Vensel, Martin Martin, Valerj Pobega and Liason displayed a selection of their fall 2011 collections in small semi-secluded rooms that lined a hallway en route to a runway. Vensel showed two vivid red dresses worn by models perched on a large rock. The dresses looked like luxe Snuggies situated in the middle of the desert. The color was intense and alluring, but the silhouettes were shapeless and robe like.
Husband and wife design duo and veterans of the L.A fashion scene Martin Martin were inspired to create their fall collection based on the idea of deconstruction. An all white, gray and black line, each piece was stark, modern and sculptural. A standout piece was a butter-soft tailored black leather jacket with an interesting pleated detail on the back.
Valerj Pobega’s line was vaudeville meets 1930s Berlin, with green wool army blanket-looking capes that had medallion brooches at the neck and were painted with star graphics. The pieces were styled on mannequins wearing gas masks and a few models who accompanied the designer at her station had Marilyn Manson-esque running eye makeup and bondage-inspired dresses festooned with an undulating ruffled collar.
Newcomer Alyson Leif, whose line of lingerie called Liason hits stores for the first time this fall, is taking a high-end approach to underpinnings. The former denim designer and current keyboard player for the band The Meek uses all silk and chiffon to create tap shorts, art deco inspired bras, robes and nightgowns.

Read more here:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/alltherage/2011/03/concept-la-fashion-week-brings-art-fashion-and-culture-together.html



Los Angeles Fashion Week SS2012 underway
By Jennifer Uner
Emily Factor and Alex & Lee (with footwear by Calleen Cordero) made an inspired presentation in a downtown gallery setting on the eve of Fashion Week in LA. The handmade-in-California casual-chic vibe in an uncommon space set the right tone for the coming weeks of shows, parties, presentations and installations. The calendar continues to evolve here.

FashionWeekLA.com was created in 2002 on behalf of an organic group of designers, agents, editors, and other market-makers who are committed to creating a vibrant and exciting Los Angeles marketplace. It is the longest running and most comprehensive calendar of events for LA Fashion Week.
Qualified events are always listed for FREE at FashionWeekLA.com. Submit event-listing requests to Jen Uner at info (at) fashionweekla.com.