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L.A. Fashion Week continues to evolve and change. This season there are a variety of parties, independent designer presentations and a few organized fashion weeks. Downtown will be a busy place as designers gear up for Fashion Week and Market.

Fashion Group International's "Meet the Designers & the Muse" event on March 17 will kick off the fashion festivities at The Standard Downtown on March 17. To celebrate L.A. Market Week, Directives West will present its "First.LA" runway show highlighting L.A. design talent and the California Market Center will hold an opening night reception on March 19. With BOXeight's "Fashion: Refocus" event taking place over the weekend and the newly formed CONCEPT fashion week from March 22 to 24, suddenly there is a lot happening downtown. Here are the recently announced schedules for BOXeight and CONCEPT. For more details on events at the California Market Center and other events around town, see the Apparel News calendar. 

BOXeights "Fashion: Refocus" held in partnership with Los Angeles Confidential Magazine and L.A. Models promises to be an artsy affair. For those interested in going behind-the-scenes, the arts collective will hold the second edition of its photo installation event at the BOXeight Warehouse from March 19 to 21. Talented photographers including Ben Cope, Steven & Laura Duncan, Peter Gurnz, Robert Sigler and August Bradley will be shooting some of L.A.'s leading designers. The photos will be printed in an upcoming issue of Los Angeles Confidential. For more information on the event, go to BOXeight.com.

"FASHION: REFOCUS" SCHEDULE:

Friday March 19th

Skingraft by Ben Cope

Gold Spun by Adam Secore

Funktional by Ninelle Efremova

Isabel Lu by Damon Kidwell

Saturday March 20th

Lloyd Klein by Robert Voltaire

Eduardo Lucero by August Bradley

Le Sang Des Betes by Laura & Steven Duncan

Michael Costello by Ben Cope

Lekuin by Dirk Mai

Sunday March 21st

Orthodox by Catherine Asanov

Kanvis by Robert Sigler

Gabby Applegate by Sam Hessamian

Future Heretics by Peter Gurnz

P'ostage by Ben Cope

Fledgling fashion week CONCEPT just announced its schedule this afternoon. Sponsored by Spring Arts Tower, Smashbox Studios and TONI & GUY, CONCEPT conveniently timed its shows to coordinate with L.A. Market. Designers can showcase their collection on the runway and sell them at the showrooms in downtown's Fashion District. The Fall/Winter 2011 collections will be presented March 22 to 24 in a series of runway presentations and installations. Here is the current schedule. For more information got to conceptfw.com.

CONCEPT SCHEDULE:

Monday, March 22

Presentations:

7:00 Chelsea Rebelle

8:00 B Scott

9:00 Fremont

Installations (6-9pm) :

Elmer Ave.

Otto Gates

Farm Tactics

Mike Vensel

Tuesday, March 23

Presentations:

6:00 - Jen Awad

7:30 - martinMARTIN

9:00 - The Battalion

Installations (6-9pm):

Valerj Pobega

Skingraft

John Sakalis

Wednesday, March 24

TBD