Producers: Concept LA
Fashion Designers: JBurgos, Emily Daccarett, Korovilas & Yoze
Season: Spring/Summer 2014
VIEWS FROM THE FRONT ROW
This was Concept LA first time at the former Smashbox location Quixote Studies. I did not make it to see the first runway show NuVula, bummer.
Yoze
New brand Yoze premiered as the last designer of the evening to walk across the catwalk. Yoze founded by Dr. Davin Enoyoze Odia, is an American womenswear brand designed for a women who is "strong, independent and a pioneer of new ideas". Title after the middle name of its founder, Yoze is designed by Creative Director Miguel Rodriguez, the collection also featured collaboration with LA artist J.T. Burke to develop a collection of prints based on his "Beautiful Again" series.Yoze's SS2014 collection features an assortment of silhouettes executed in a pallet of whites, mauves, yellows and gold. Angular dresses in spandex jersey extended to the knee and use abbreviated peplums to nip the waist. In the same way, printed crepe jersey sundress are modernized and layered with short sleeve peplum jackets to enhance the shoulders and waistline. Raglan jackets in printed satin are over floor-length jersey dresses that fade from mauve to a matching surrealistic golden print. For more on this beautiful collection, visit their website http://yozeonline.com/
On a side note: Thanks for leaving your material for the media on our seats, I wish more designers would take heed to that bit of professionalism.
