Fashion Week Photos: Grai, Society for Rational Dress, Raquel Allegra, Sonia Vera and J. Gerard
Eric Richardson
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A model walks the runway during J. Gerard's midnight show at the Los Angeles Theatre.
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — On Friday night a showcase put on by Gen Art kicked off BOXeight's 2009 Fashion Week at the Los Angeles Theatre. It was a return home for BOXeight, whose fashion career was born three years ago in a set of shows hastily pulled together in the Los Angeles.
On Friday night the Gen Art showcase featured Grai, Society for Rational Dress and Raquel Allegra. Late night shows during the BOXeight afterparty featured swimwear by Sonia Vera and a surprising collection by J. Gerard.
This is the season to showcase fall fashion, and the first three lines carried a winter-appropriate mix of blacks and grays. Allegra's work is particularly eye-catching, with recycled garments handturned into threadbare new creations.
The afterparty shows eschewed fall, going instead for color and skin. J. Gerard's show drew a particularly loud response from the audience that stayed through the midnight hour. While the night's freely flowing drinks and more than a couple risque get-ups certainly contributed to the applause, Gerard's designs would have shown well at any hour.
BOXeight returns to the Los Angeles on Saturday and Sunday for two more packed days of runway displays. Tickets are available at http://boxeightfashion.com/.
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Johnny Royal on March 15, 2009, at 01:25AM – #1
I loved J Gerard's collection!!!!
Turner on March 15, 2009, at 11:43PM – #2
Box 8 are a slimy joke of a crew. They still owe $ 20,000 to vendors from their event downtown in 2007, including $ 11,000 to the venue, Vibiana (the former cathedral). Not a rumor: ask Anika, the manager of Vibiana.
Fools like Box 8 will continue to burden Los Angeles in becoming a respected fashion city.
Eric Richardson (@blogdowntown) on March 16, 2009, at 01:25PM – #3
Turner: There's no easy answer there. Peter Gurnz of BOXeight got asked about that by the Times in a story that ran this weekend:
The BOXeight folks are good people, but that situation is still a black eye.
Turner on March 16, 2009, at 01:47PM – #4
Eric:
I read the Times piece.
Gurnz isn't telling the truth at all. He hired a producer and stiffed her, too, leaving many vendors unpaid.
Typical (nouveau) rich kid behavior. His "shooting $200 look book" remark is laughable.
Any black eye incurred stems directly from Gurnz treating truth as a foreign language.
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