L.A. Fashion Week Spring '07: Alan Del Rosario
Alan Del Rosario was inspired by “good girls and the bad boys that they fall for” for his Spring 2007 runway presentation on Oct. 17 at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Smashbox Studios in Culver City, Calif.
Del Rosario turned the volume up to 11 on the prim and proper silhouette of curvy mermaid skirts and 1950s-era cinched waists. The “rebellious Audrey Hepburn”–inspired silhouette was shown in eyelet, reflective taffeta, embellished with a garden of oversized rosettes and bubbly tiered skirts, sometimes all at once.
Most of the 80 looks shown were more wearable, including a black-and-pewter taffeta cocktail dress with perfectly graduated stripes. Transparent puffed-sleeve chiffon blouses with a sweep of ruffles coupled with pencil skirts or bubble skirts in tropical bright flamenco colors were also standouts.
For the bad-boy half, tattooed male models in dirty jeans and butch, black motorcycle boots introduced the dress groups. Some of the men wore pastel beater tanks to coordinate with women in springy picnic-plaid dresses. Others wore fuchsia tuxedo shirts with cut-off sleeves to coordinate with their “dates,” who wore tuxedo bib gowns. —Rhea Cortado
