Los Angeles Fashion Week Fall '09: Future Heretics
The design collective behind Future Heretics—Bryden Lando, Alex Kosters and Liliana Felleti—did a mash up of “Lost Boys meet Japanese surf punk” for its premiere collection, shown March 14 during BOXeight Fashion Week at the Los Angeles Theatre. Films from the designers’ California surf, skate and punk adolescence—such as “The Lost Boys” and “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure”—informed the designs that were battered, torn and tie-dyed. T-shirt graphics were based on Lando’s original paintings and bore cheeky phrases such as “Dead, but hellip; Live in LA!!!” and “Love Sells.”
Of the T-shirt that read “F*ck Skulls” with a cluster of skulls, Lando said, “That would be commentary on that whole scene. The kind of ironic part is we’re still selling a skull T-shirt. We can capitalize on that demographic and make fun of ourselves at the same time.”
Acid, potassium and tie-dyed washes gave a splotchy, bleached finish to French terry drop-crotch jodhpurs, denim suits, knit hoodies, fitted women’s overalls and men’s woven shirts. Mixed in with the battered and distressed were plaid woven shirts, pure-red blazers, skin-tight reptile texture pants, sharp vests and black waxed denim that showed a cleaner side. —Rhea Cortado
