LA FASHION WEEK: FUTURE HERETICS AND MARTINMARTIN
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I attended Saturday night’s shows, including Laeken, Future Heretics and martinMartin, and opted out of Sunday’s particularly because of Saturday night’s shows. While Laeken and Future Heretics had a few promising looks, including feathery jackets and some marbleized, not-quite-acid-wash head to toe suits for men at Future Heretics, the shows were overall amateurish. Maybe it’s just the nature of the LA fashion market – Los Angelenos are creatures of comfort and jeans and t-shirts are our staples. If you expect to see high fashion at LA Fashion Week, you’ll only be disappointed.
A shining anomaly of the shows, martinMartin opted for a dark, theatrical show that admittedly might have been out of place for the sun-soaked west coast. The extensive men and women’s, mostly black and grey collection consisted of men in long skirts, thin leather ensembles that closely resembled latex, drapey, sweeping jersey and Yohji Yamamato-like numbers for both men and women, and the curious but almost chilling addition of large rubber Hazmat type of gloves with nearly every look. And while I really enjoyed seeing a collection so antithetical to the casual sensibility that dominates the Los Angeles fashion scene, I also would have perhaps appreciated it more if it was a little less derivative of the more high profile “gothic” designers like Pugh and Owens. I just wanted something a little more contrarian and less transparent of a response to the current economic crisis. It’s too easy to make a collection that reinforces the mood of the industry. To the designers’ credit, though, their clothes have marketable potential – maybe not as much on the west coast, but definitely in NYC. Ultimately, martinMartin’s designers, husband and wife team Diane Moss-Martin and Eric Martin, have talent in a land where mass produced goods and the Rock ‘n’ Republic and Monarchy aesthetic, if you can even call it that, dominate.
A winning look from the Future Heretics collection
The dark, gothic sensibility of martinMartin
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