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Here’s another good idea for a Christmas gift: the re-release of the DVD version of the classic Audrey and Humphrey Bogart movie “Sabrina” – oh, the Edith Head designed outfits!!! – (with a little help from an uncredited Hubert de Givenchy).
But this version has a featurette attached to it called, “Audrey Hepburn: Fashion Icon,” with interviews on it from Isaac Mizrahi, Cynthia Rowley, Trina Turk, Eduardo Lucero and the faculty of L.A.’s Otis College Fashion Faculty. It was produced by Paramount Home Entertainment for the Centennial Collection DVD series, a two disc set of the 1954 classic, which just came out. The doc was filmed on location at the Otis Design School.
Who says Hollywood can’t get any celebrities to L.A. Fashion Week? Mandy Moore herself is hosting Gen Arts 11th Annual Fresh Faces in Fashion Show on Friday night October 10th at the Petersen Auto Museum, 6060 Wilshire. And there will actually be 1200 other people there, too, because this show kicks off L.A. Fashion Week, and often hosts new designers who have some kind of future. There’s an after party at the museum, as well, which is in an interesting building in and of its own right, at Fairfax and Wilshire.
This year, the new womenswear lines include: Laeken, Maxine Dillon, Nanushka, Peonie, Quail and Wayf. The menswear collections are K.Z.O and Wayne Hadley. Gen Art will also introduce accessory lines Azature, Jerome C. Rousseau, Laura Kranitz, and Posso. And one of L.A.’s great hometown designers, Katy Rodriguez, will get the Gen Art Alumni Innovator Award – just in time for her own show two days later. Previous discoveries include Louis Verdad (who dressed Madonna, Cate Blanchett and others following his debut at the show), Zac Posen, Shoshanna, Rebecca Taylor, Michelle Mason, Hollywould, Jared Gold, Chaiken, Milly, Twinkle, Sari Gueron and Eduardo Lucero.
A nominating committee comprised of an elite mix of fashion-industry leaders, including Alisa Loftin (Aero & Co), Jayne Seward (California Apparel News) and Marlien Rentmeester (Lucky Magazine) helped Gen Art’s fashion division and Gen Art leader Jen Egan select twelve designers from among hundreds of hopefuls. And, if none of that fails to grab you – there’s damn good people watching!!!!! All the hip people you never see on the streets of L.A. are all in one place, together – a visual feast.
