L.A. Fashion Week Fall '04: Trina Turk
Think prim and proper mixed with a mischievous blast of color and design. That may best describe the Fall 2004 Trina Turk collection at the designer’s “Vignettes” fashion show. Turk playfully displayed the collection on March 31 at her Los Angeles boutique, far from conventional runways.
In nine cubicles artfully placed around the store, models posed in Turk’s designs while playacting pedestrian pursuits such as painting a portrait, arranging flowers, reading books or sitting on a bench with friends.
“It was inspired by prim-and-proper ladies in prim-and-proper pencil skirts, coats and wooly fabrics,” Turk said of her Fall designs.
Prim and proper for Turk means a bit of understated simplicity in the form of wool/angora sweaters. But the designer also injected her modern sensibilities into traditional styles and fabrics.
Traditional dark tartan plaids were jolted with hot pinks and light blues. Corduroy skirts and jackets were made exotic with giraffe and leopard prints. Simple houndstooth checks were put under a magnifying glass to create a jacket with bold enlarged checks. Tweeds were made Technicolor with bright navy, orange and red shades. —Andrew Asch
