Los Angeles Fashion Week Spring '05: Bat's Daughter
The glamour girls of the 1940s and 1950s had a serious influence on the fashions shown by the young designer behind the Spring/Summer 2005 line for Bat’s Daughter, which made its Los Angeles Fashion Week debut on Oct. 29 at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Smashbox Studios in Culver City.
Designer Janett Kim said her inspiration came from four actresses: Rita Hayworth, Veronica Lake, Marilyn Monroe and Grace Kelly. The graduate of the Otis College of Art & Design in Los Angeles drew from an ample supply of halter tops and dresses, circle skirts, shrunken blazers, and wide-leg trousers to give the line a retro feel with modern touches.
Bat’s Daughter is the creation of Angela Batinovich, a business and marketing graduate from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Her fashion idols are Donna Karan, Marc Jacobs, Tom Ford and Liz Claiborne. With Bat’s Daughter, she wanted to create a line that was feminine, yet professional.
Batinovich accomplished that with stunning looks that varied from a gorgeous mini-houndstooth shrunken blazer and kneelength skirt to a turquoise silk chiffon printed halter dress. —Deborah Belgum
