L.A. Fashion Week Fall '04: Heike Jarick
New York–based Heike Jarick’s Fall 2004 collection was inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 film, “A Clockwork Orange”; King Arthur; and the designer’s tailoring experience on London’s Saville Row. Jarick showed her collection on March 31 at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Smashbox Studios in Culver City.
The German-born designer said she added feminine dresses in chiffon and jersey, including evening gowns for celebrity clientele, to cater to the West Coast customer. One glamorous evening look suitable for a modern-day Queen Guinevere came in a beautiful boysenberry lotus-print silk chiffon fabric.
Jarick designed cream-and-white cotton tailored pin-striped suits and coats with removable linings to accommodate East Coast and West Coast weather. Key looks included a plaid mohair cape jacket and matching pencil skirt, a gold Microflex jersey gathered bustier dress and gold shearling coat, a tailored herringbone twill suit with a brown frog-skin leather corset, and an argyle tweed corset and pencil skirt paired with a cherry eel leather jacket with fox fur trim. —N.J.S.
