Los Angeles Fashion Week Fall '09: Hayley Starr
Take five silhouettes and three different hem lengths and you can come up with at least 269 different styles.
So says Los Angeles designer Hayley Starr, who set out to prove that in her Fall ’09 line, called the “Infinite Collection,” shown at BOXeight Fashion Week at the Los Angeles Theatre on March 15.
Working entirely with Modal, the young designer showed how creative she can be with so little, taking those five silhouettes and creating 50 looks on the runway.
“This is the perfect time for this piece,” said the designer, who attended the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising for six months for her design basics. “You can buy one dress and you get many.”
Starr’s dresses and jumpsuits come in a one-size-fits-all mode. The tops can be twisted, wrapped or folded for different necklines. Waistline accents turn an empire-waist dress into a goddess dress.
The designer said her goal was to create a collection that could defy the seasonality of fashion and ride the various trends with versatility.
Her colors focused around black, white, mauve, gray-blues and turquoise.
Even her childrenswear collection, called “Never-Never,” extends the life of kids’ clothes. Little girl dresses can eventually be worn by mom as a skirt. —Deborah Belgum
