Synesthetic Fashion Show Featuring HOWL Clothing, Grayson Mitchell Kelly and First Communion
In a spare loft-like space in downtown Los Angeles, HOWL Clothing, Grayson Mitchell Kelly and First Communion made an earnest presentation. The invite-only event on March 16 was filled with art school–type spectators sporting impressive sculpturally askew coiffures and of-the-moment outfits.
The young designers showed promise. First Communion by Xavi Sostre and Allison Russell was very neat and modern with silky shirts buttoned up to the top-collar button, quilted panels on leggings and subtle ombre fabric effects. Grayson Mitchell Kelly was a compact six looks, including a nice draped velvet blazer and pant suit and a ballooned striped hooded zip-up over a maillot. Keyla Marquez, the designer of HOWL, sold at Shop Epic in Los Angeles, described her Fall 2012 as “pieces, in theory, of what women would be wearing if the apocalypse came.” In Marquez’s science fiction, futuristic vision of end of the world, see-through plastic dresses, head-to-toe mesh and one-legged jumpsuits with reptilian texture would run rampant.—Rhea Cortado
