L.A. Fashion Week Fall '05: Threadless
Warmth and softness were the key themes at the Threadless fashion show on March 10, when seven labels—ranging from avant-garde Glaza to Mighty Fine Inc.’s Disney Couture—presented Spring and Fall 2005 collections at Hollywood’s Vanguard nightclub.
Ashton Hirota and Marina Toybina softened their apocalyptic designs for Glaza by using brown instead of black as their base color, enhanced by touches of turquoise and burgundy. The Fall/Winter collection was intended to be nonchalantly thrown onto a Victorian renegade going out for coffee with her boyfriend in London. Toybina said the duo was concerned with comfort and had loosened the cuts of the men’s and women’s clothing and draped layers of vintage knits, cotton and silk on the body.
Pink Spike, designed by vegans Michelle Brown and Chad Jenkins, made its first fashion show appearance with a high-end line of printed blazers and dri-fit fashion tops made of performance polyester produced by Eclat Textile Co. The animal lovers splashed drawings of horses all over their shirts.
For Spring/Summer, Disney Couture introduced Modal fabrics and discharge prints (whereby the print is applied in a bleaching effect from inside the garment) in its fashion tees based on Bambi, Tigger and other characters from The Walt Disney Co.’s library.
Jessica Marks emphasized purple and red in her Fall party-girl outfits for JLMarks. Working primarily with antique fabrics, Marks presented a patchwork dress with an apron top, skintight leather knickers in black and ivory, and other skin-baring outfits.
Also in the show were Vancleav—which showed T-shirts, suits and unicorn-printed hoodies for skate rats—and K. Wise, which offered a ladylike wardrobe that included an asymmetrical bolero in a floral print and a long dress with shirring at the small of the back. Closing the evening was Chequamegon Bollinger, which mixed jersey, knits and ethnic influences from India, Mexico and Scandinavia in its irreverent collection of baby-doll dresses, miniskirts and leggings.
—Khanh T.L. Tran
