L.A. Fashion Week Fall '05: Fornarina/Robert Graham
Ford Models teamed up with General Motors to host “The Many Faces of L.A. Fashion,” a runway show featuring Italian brand Fornarina and New York label Robert Graham, held March 17 at the soon-to-open Montmartre Lounge in Hollywood.
Graham’s mixed-media styles for men and women came in a palette of warm neutrals with a jolt of spice tones and cool blues and greens. Styles were casual and boxy for men and tailored and sophisticated for women. Most ensembles featured the designer’s signature prints.
Fornarina, which has its U.S. headquarters in Los Angeles, showed a mix of 1980s-inspired, flirty fashions, which ranged from rock-chic styles—such as a leather, fur and rib-knit cropped jacket worn with a miniskirt—to ladylike ensembles, including a fitted jacket and checked skirt with bustle ruffles in candy-apple red. Other looks included a yellow baby-doll top with a Peter Pan collar worn with skinny pin-striped shorts and a blouson-style red jersey dress with screen-printed dolman sleeves.
The show was part of a fund-raiser for the Wil to Learn Foundation, which is raising funds for tsunami relief through a month-long auction on eBay. Items to be auctioned include celebrity-autographed fashions from Kelly Osbourne’s new Stiletto Killers collection. —Alison A. Nieder
