Los Angeles Fashion Week Spring 2002: California Mart
The California Mart presented its Collective Fashion Show/Market Overview on Nov. 3 in the lobby atrium, featuring a collection of designers presenting a wide variety of offerings that ranged from the crackled leather designs of Sheri Bodell to the rose-print dresses of Zola and the animal prints of Rene Derhy.
The air was crisp on the cool Saturday evening, which opened with a cocktail party on the Cal Mart patio featuring the performance art of Sheinina Raj, who created a live sculpture dedicated to peace, love and unity, using female dancers painted white performing against a swath of white fabric.
The audience moved into the lobby for the fashion show, which took place on a one-inch-high portable white runway extended across the floor, with the building’s video wall serving as a backdrop. The show was marked by the strikingly sexy display of mesh and sheer themes that ran through the designs of the M’Backe, Private Circle and Sharagano collections, and it included the designs of Dress, Mandalay, Bella Dahl, Jane Doe, Pictures by Johnny Was, Rojas, Varga, Luke Jeans, Carolyn Vaile, Me Collection, Tamara Catz, Ujean, Maral, Perry White, Fever Jeans, and Mona and Company. —Darryl James
