Los Angeles Fashion Week Fall I 2003: Brignoni
Whitey Flagg’s bull’s-eye painting in bright primary colors provided the backdrop for Michelle Brignoni’s latest collection of custom-made apparel, shown April 5 at Popomatic Studios, the downtown Los Angeles loft space that also hosts monthly art, music and fashion event Welcome to the Plastic Factory.
The Los Angeles–based designer, who launched Brignoni in 2000, said she refocused her line prior to the recent fashion-week show. On the runway, her Fall collection moved beyond her traditional palette of black, white and red to include shades of violet offset by tangerine, a heather-gray windowpane check and a blouse in electric blue. Still, Brignoni stuck to her core colors— topping a curvy skirt in fire-engine red with a sheer, fringed black blouse; pairing a long black slit skirt with a backless blouson top in black-and-white stripes; and recoloring camouflage in shades of red.
Favorites included a raw-edge denim mini printed with the Brignoni logo and topped with a screen-printed tee, as well as a knee-length wrap skirt in windowpane check paired with an off-the-shoulder black blouse. —Alison A. Nieder
