Category: runway
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Style Speaks with Kristin Vartan: Demobaza brings Dystopian Cool to the LAFW runway
Written by Kristin Vartan Demobaza christens their clothes, the “reconstructed uniform.” One look at their Spring/Summer 2024 collection at LAFW, and you’ll know they favor rebellion over conformity. “It’s fresh it’s new, and they don’t conform to any kind of fashion that’s going on at the moment,” music artist, Goldiie Lux told Style Speak’s Kristin…
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LAFW: Claude Kameni Brings Cameroon-inspired Ready-to-Wear to the Runway
Written by Kristin Vartan | Photo by Chase Hanssen Walking into The Gallery at Nya studios was like stepping inside a kaleidoscope: Layers of flowers in orange, baby blue, and white bloomed on the walls in an otherworldly projection. Claude Kameni’s encapsulating world continued to come alive, once models cascaded down the LAFW runway in…
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Advisry Goes Back To Its Roots at LAFW
Keith Herron’s roots run deep in Sacramento. The City of Trees after all, is where the designer grew up. It’s also where Herron launched his fashion label, Advisry.
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Red: How To Wear the Runway’s Favorite Color
Barbie pink’s edgy older sister, Scarlet red did not just become on-trend: She never went out of style! Pierpaolo Piccioli fashioned a viral moment, choosing to send models down the runway head-to-toe in fuschia at Valentino’s Fall/Winter 2022-2023 show. Pink took the form of trench coats, sequined sweater and short sets, and dresses with matching…
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How Music Can Inspire Your Style
One of the reasons I have fallen in love with fashion the way I have music: both are a language of their own. You don’t need to be fluent in a specific tongue to appreciate the story that can be told through style or song. But beyond that, I love how musicians have their own…
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Precious Cargo: Utility Style
If Indiana Jones was a woman, who kept her whip on the pulse of the latest fashion trends, she would be thrill-seeking in this rokh two-piece set. Sure, I’m not an archaeology professor on-duty and a world-wandering treasure hunter off-duty, but a broadcast journalist based in California’s capital city has her own set of adventures…
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Spring/Summer 2023 Trends Become One With Nature
It seems that the fashion set has taken a page from David William Thoreau and become one with nature. In January, Daniel Rosenberry’s latest couture collection for Schiaparelli took literal inspiration from the animal kingdom with embroidered animal heads, hand sculpted in foam, wool and silk faux fur. They were “hand-painted to look as lifelike…
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Making “Indie Sleaze” work for your 2023 wardrobe
If you tend to have a sleeker style, it doesn’t mean you can’t let out your inner “indie sleaze.” This fashion era that followed Y2K, is one that can be borderline cringe for people like me that were in middle school at its peak: heavy smudged under eyeliner, choppy bangs, skinny jeans with combat boots…but…
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The Micro-Trends of 2022 that I Loved
I ‘aught’ to tell you: some people wear their hearts on their sleeves. I wear mine all over my body. It’s a canvas of things I love, from people I love, and a time I bittersweetly, have feelings for: the early 2000s. I grew up in the early and late aughts, trying to figure out…
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Inside the Lee Alexander McQueen & Ann Ray Exhibition in Sacramento, CA
Ann Ray (French, born 1969), Flesh and Blood,2008. Archival chromogenic print. Courtesy of Barrett Barrera Projects When friendship and fashion merge, the creative process becomes poetry. The stanzas are steeped in soul. The verses stitch together hearts. The Lee Alexander McQueen & Ann Ray: Rendezvous exhibition is a love letter to this kind of collaboration…
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