Los Angeles Fashion Week Fall '09: EM&Co. and Chic Little Devil Stylehouse
Almost any material can be whipped up into something high-style and fashionable, according to designer Evelyn Morel, the owner of boutique EM&Co. She used plastic shopping bags from the Vons supermarket to put the finish touches on a body-hugging dress she designed. The piece wrapped up her most recent runway show, titled “Re-Fashion Runway.”
Morel produces a runway show at her boutique during each Los Angeles Fashion Week.
For this season’s show, held March 19 and co-produced by stylist company Chic Little Devil, Morel invited designers Linda Loudermilk and Deborah Lindquist to display fashions they constructed out of found materials—or what many consider junk. One of Lindquist’s pieces was a wedding dress constructed out of recycled cashmere. Bodices for some of Lindquist’s other dresses were constructed out of recycled bras.
The trash or found-object fashion aesthetic could continue after the show. One designer featured at the night was 18-year-old high-school student Lizzy Singleton. Her junk fashions were displayed on mannequins. The student made a ballerina dress out of newspaper, pink bubble wrap and braided Saran Wrap. —Andrew Asch
