L.A. Fashion Week Fall '07: Eduardo Lucero
“I’m tired of waiting for the future. The future is today,” Los Angeles–based designer Eduardo Lucero said of his muse for his Fall 2007 collection. Presented March 17 by BOXEight Fashion Los Angeles at the Los Angeles Theater, Lucero’s eponymous collection paired timeless silhouettes with modern touches. Little black dresses were dressed up with cascades of slick black sequins in a subtle chevron pattern or toughened up with black crocodile body armor. A black satin blouse toed the Mad Max line with black fur sleeves, and models wore LED-light earrings or carried clutches with scrolling lights that read “I am single.”
Lucero got creative with his fabrications as well. To achieve a shiny stamped-leather look for jackets, belts and insets, Lucero coated gabardine with layers of polyurethane, then embossed and fused the material. “It cost four times more than real leather,” Lucero laughed. —Erin Barajas
