Fashion Diary: Destination Los Angeles
Los Angeles may be far away from European fashion capitals,but fordesigners, itsalways near — whether theybe inspired byHollywood or the open road.
This week, I 12 of London’s top designers who plan to hit the road next month, bringing their clothes to Los Angeles in a bid for red carpet stardom. Speaking of hitting the road, Miuccia Prada seemed to have Ed “Big Daddy” Roth, Kustom Kulture and Hollywood hot rods in mind when she designed herspring 2012 collection shown in Milan last week.
Many years ago,Coco Chanel was also luredtoLos Angeles,not byits street culture or red carpet, but by studio head Samuel Goldwyn, who orchestrated the ultimate publicity coup in 1931 by paying Chanel $1 million todesign film costumes during the depths of the Depression.
I chatted with Justine Picardie about Chanels time here, and other things.Picardie wrote“Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life,”originally published in 2010, witha new editionout now with drawings by Chanel creative director Karl Lagerfeld.
The book was feted Thursday night in Los Angeles at a dinner hosted by the French fashion house and Liz Goldwyn,who said the last memory her grandfather had ofChanels fabulous filmcostumesfor Gloria Swanson, Ina Claireand others was seeing them in garbage bags on the loading dock at the studio. What a pity.
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