Los Angeles Fashion Week Spring '05: Junker Designs
A good Junker Designs piece is one with a checkered rock ’n’ roll past.
“If it’s not found, we make it look found,” said Giuliana Mayo, who co-designs the Hollywood-based leather and denim line with partner Tod Waters.
The two showed 33 looks, mostly reconstructed from other pieces, in a runway show on Oct. 28 in the Louis B. Mayer Building, located in Los Angeles’ Thai Town district. The venue was adjacent to the designers’ boutique, Worn, which will open in December 2004.
Their leather vision included pieces such as a tight white snakeskin-print bustier and silver miniskirts. But the show was dominated by Junker’s specialties: motorcycle-style jackets, corsets and denim designed in conjunction with Reo Starr of Los Angeles. Corset lacing also found its way into an array of pieces, ranging from jackets to skirts.
The crowd of Hollywood designers, including Rene Young of Kinky Chinky and Kiki Stash, applauded the leather looks, but the star of the night did not have a stitch of cowhide. The featured look, a long white jersey gown with corset stitching, was a step out of the ordinary for Junker, but it still fit the label’s sensibility—Mayo and Waters only took interest in the material after it had been damaged by purple dye. —Andrew Asch
