Fashion's Next Wave: Woodbury University
Burbank, Calif.-based Woodbury University recently hosted its 37th annual fashion show, which featured a tribute to the pin-up girl. Legendary actress and pin-up girl Jane Russell was on hand to accept the Woodbury Style Award, and Christina Kim, designer of Los Angeles-based Dosa, received the Innovation in Fashion Award at the event held at the Los Angeles Entertainment Center in downtown Los Angeles. Some of the highlights from the show included Jamie Haller’s “Contradiction of Self” collection, which received the Overall Design Achievement Award. The designer paired bustiers with high-necked Victorian blouses and topped a gathered and tired-plaid mini with suspenders and a white cropped blouse.Mae Moua received the university’s Outstanding Creative Achievement Award. Autumnal florals trimmed the edge of a gathered ballet skirt and crept up the front bodice of a cropped white blouse in her collection, which Moua called “It’s in Eve’s Nature.”
Anna Golino received Outstanding Technical Achievement for her “Escaped Mental Patient” collection, in which the designer trimmed hospital gowns with elaborate gathered bustles and topped a fishtail bridal gown with a matching white straight jacket.
Kermit Bittleson and Gina M. Whiteley tied for the Best of Couture award.
Bittleson’s “Beyond the Apocalypse” collection of raw-edged red and brown leather corsets and full-length gored skirts and gathered pants managed to recall both Mad Max and Wagnerian opera. Whiteley’s collection was titled “Karyukai, the Flower and the Willow World” and included intricately layered kimonos in muted shades. —Alison A. Nieder
