Los Angeles Fashion Week is the quintessential Hollywood starlet. It's young, parties hard, desperately wants to be taken seriously--and may need to go to rehab.
"It's too expensive and it's like a club scene at Smashbox instead of a fashion show," says Lisa Elliot, principal of em Prods., which handled shows for Richard Tyler and Eduardo Lucero in past years.
Mercedes-Benz sponsors LAFW's fall collection shows, which kick off Sunday at Smashbox Studios in Culver City with a 37-designer lineup. However, local stars like Michelle Mason, Magda Berliner (now working with Christy Turlington Burns' Nuala line), Petro Zillia and Pegah Anvarian are not among them.
Beth_Gottfried
Cambridge, MA
March 2006
MAR 17, 2006 11:27 AM