Los Angeles Fashion Week Fall I 2003: Elisa Jimenez
The free spirit of the ocean was the mood that designer Elisa Jimenez tried to instill in her Fall 2003 collection, shown April 2 at the Bryten Goss Gallery in downtown Los Angeles. This was Jimenez’s second showing during Los Angeles Fashion Week.
Jimenez is from New York, but she travels frequently to the West Coast to outfit a growing league of celebrity fans—including Marisa Tomei and Lisa Bonet, who were on hand to see her Fall presentation.
Jimenez highlighted the event with a moody palette of bluish gray, ultramarine, teal and aqua shades. The designer, known for her hand-sewn pieces, incorporated more denim into her Fall collection. Low-rise pants with unfinished waistlines, formal satin and free-flowing Grecian gowns, cutout cocktail dresses, revealing stretch-fabric halters, slinky polymorph tops and lattice dresses were some of the pieces she displayed.
“This is the second part of a story [the first revealed at a show in New York] that deals with self-love and involves a character known as ’the Trickster’ and how he tells the story of how the ocean dreams of flight,” Jimenez explained. “It’s something we need during a difficult time with what’s going on in the world.” —Robert McAllister
