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October 15, 2007 3:59 pm
“There’s so much talent here, yet every time I go to the shows [in Paris], everyone says, ‘Los Angeles?’ like you said you come from Boise,” said Hazel Brown designer and Gen Art alum Ali Blankley at Friday’s Spring 2008 presentation at the Petersen Automotive Museum. Highlights of Gen Art’s tenth L.A. Fresh Faces in Fashion show included multifunctioning knitwear from Marlova; sculptural, innovatively draped silk pieces from the young design duo Suh-Tahn; and simple, dramatic menswear from Endovanera, whose designer David Hershberger instructed his models to walk like they didn’t want anyone to see them. It worked, much to the chagrin of the photographers. For Wren designer Melissa Coker, whose dip-dye sundresses and full, cinch-waist miniskirts are on trend for Spring, the Gen Art show—her first—brought the former New York editor full circle. “I used to be on the selection committee when I was at Details,” she said. “So I feel like it’s very appropriate.”
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