New Line to Launch With CMC Fashion Show

Los Angeles designer Franco Martinez will launch his Four60couture collection of contemporary womenswear at a fashion show at 7:30 p.m. on July 14 in the California Market Center Fashion Theater.

The collection features vintage silhouettes and other clothing geared for active women from size 0 to plus-size. The label is named for the 460 square miles that encompass Los Angeles.

Martinez is a former dancer who attended the School of American Ballet in New York. He performed with the Washington (D.C.) Ballet and the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre and in a national tour of the “Phantom of the Opera.”

Tickets for the fashion show are $15, or $10 for students and seniors. For more information, call (310) 384-0173. —Robert McAllister