L.A. Fashion Week Fall '05: Harveys
Husband-and-wife team Dana and Melanie Harvey made their mark on the fashion world by creating the Seatbeltbag, that popular, colorful purse made out of woven nylon seatbelts. The Harveys still sell the bag, but they also now design a contemporary 1950s-inspired apparel collection.
In their first runway show at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Smashbox Studios in Culver City, held March 20, the designers carried on with the classics for their Fall 2005 collection, called “Some Like It Haute.”
There were cuffed trouser pants in winter white and gray, as well asflirty pencil skirts in raspberry-pink velvet and gray wool. Trench coats took on a decidedly Lauren Bacall air. Because Melanie, a Southern California native, loves anything with pink, there were plenty of pink sweaters, coats and skirts.
The 6-foot-1-inch designer, always in search of a good little black dress, launched the Harveys’ Little Black Dress collection, which featured everything from a silk Twiggy dress to a tiered ruffle dress that looked as if it were floating on air. —Deborah Belgum
