Los Angeles Fashion Week Fall I 2003: Petro Zillia
The brightly dyed red hair that Nony Tochterman sports is one clue that nothing the Los Angeles designer does is understated.
“I’m always colorful and bright,” said Tochterman, wearing a pair of purple sequined tennis shoes and a lime-green sweater at her April 4 fashion show at the Downtown Standard Hotel. “The season is a spectrum of green, blue, orange, pink, rust and mustard.”
The designer topped charcoal pin-striped pants with a multicolored, silk combo top bearing knit sleeves. She paired a lime puffed-sleeve sweater with a brown pinstriped chevron skirt.
Tochterman said she found inspiration in movies from the 1940s and 1950s. As a result, cargo knickers had a certain gangster look to them. A French flair showed up in a purple-striped boat-neck sweater worn over a full, hip-hugging navy velveteen skirt.
Skirt lengths were up and down, ranging from a bright-red knit miniskirt to skirts with lacy flounces that fell below the knees. —Deborah Belgum
