Los Angeles Fashion Week Fall 2001: Loy & Ford
It was obvious at the March 31 showing by this new-to-L.A. designing duo that they’ve been hard at work and “not on some little island doing yoga and meditation,” as co-designer Frank Ford said he’d like to do someday.
Ford recently moved from New York to Japan to Los Angeles to open a small boutique on Chung King Road—a quaint little alley-style street in Chinatown populated with art galleries and gift shops. The designer said he’s definitely “more settled here, and it shows.”
With the other half of Loy & Ford, Stefan Loy, away tending to a personal emergency, the German-born Ford manned the fashion week show alone, exhibiting tough, hard-knocked and unfinished knee-length skirts, ’80s-style tailoring, romantic Edwardian design references and a nearly monochromatic color scheme of black, gray and cream, that lived up to the new glam-yet-tough ’80s trend that was prevalent at other Fall shows in Los Angeles. —Andrea Bermudez
