New York Fashion Week: Fall 2010
About two years ago, an editor at a magazine gave me an LNA scoop neck tee. It was the softest, slinkiest, most comfortable t-shirt I've ever worn. I was hooked.
The line was founded by California natives Lauren Alexander and April Leight on quest to design the perfect t-shirt that fit, in versatile colors and of course quality cotton. They succeeded. Since then, they've been expanding their line to bottoms, jackets and even dresses.
Colors
Basic Black, Heather Gray and White
Looks Loved
I loved the basic black and white stripe dress with a a leather jacket thrown over top as seen on the blond model. The gray tee dress looked so comfortable that I wanted to steal it off the model and run.The guys hoodie and black biker jacket, tough but not too involved which is how I like men to dress.
Unloved Looks
Can we please end this trend of MC hammer, carrying a load style pants? Love the jacket, hate the pants. Im also not a fan of the black crop garbage bag looking top over the gray dress in the pic above. It looks strange, but not in a good way.
Music
The Fall collection was inspired by the music industry's bad ass front women like Alison Mosshart of The Kills & The Dead, io of Lo Echo, Natasha Khan of Bat for Lashes and of course, the original unisex rock n' roll uniform creator, Ms. Patti Smith.
LNA held an after-party at Milk Studios with a live performance by Smith. I was invited. My name was on the list, however, when I got to the studio, the line just to check in stretched almost a block. About 10 people cut in front of me in line "to meet their friends" after I've been waiting about 15 minutes. I decided with the temperature being 20 degrees that I would call it a night. I'd been out all day at shows. Though, I'm a Patti Smith fan and would've loved to check it out, I'm not big into scenes that seem like a velvet rope event --though there were metal police barracades rather than rope. Still. That's just me, personally. Thats how it goes at these things and thanks for the invite!
People and Scene
The presentation was held in a studio at Milk. It was easy come, easy go which I prefer over nutty huge productions. There were some fashion types standing around chatting, then there were some people who just came in, snapped some shots and left.
The "stages" reminded me of decorations put up by the high school prom committee: cardboard, tissue paper and metal, made to seem goth? I think this was probably the intention of the art crew. I think? Rock, rock, rock n' roll high school!
To Gift or Not to Gift
I'm voting this gift bag the best yet! The black cotton LNA bag was stuffed with Bumble and Bumble donated shampoo and conditioner in full size bottles, a cd from a band called Metric (which I haven't listened to yet) a product called Inodorous that is fabric refresher with no scent, and last, one of my favorite v-neck LNA heather gray t-shirts.
