I'm interviewing my incredibly talented pal, costume designer-stylist Arianne Phillips, this Wednesday March 17 at LACMA's Bing Theater, as part of the museum's Costume Council lecture series. We will be discussing the relationship between fashion and costume design for film, along with presenting more than 200 images from her extensive career, including her recent cinematic credits in Tom Ford's directorial debut, A Single Man, and the upcoming Tom Cruise-Cameron Diaz vehicle Knight and Day, her dozen years collaborating with Madonna, in addition to her work in fashion, music, editorial and advertising.
November 04, 2009 12:33 PM  (go back to main view)
Dinner and a Movie with Corey Lynn Calter
Cinema style: Corey Lynn Calter presents Spring 2010.
Tom Ford isn't the only fashion eye getting his cinematic ya-yas out this season. Ok, so contemporary designer Corey Lynn Calter's whirl behind the camera is not a full-length feature film, but a short. A very short short at that.
Corey opted out of presenting her Spring 2010 collection on the runway during the recent endless fashion calendar in Los Angeles, instead giving press and pals an experience that animated the clothes and her direction for the season in a way that a fashion show couldn't scratch.
Shiva Rose and Racheil Leigh Cook, both in Corey Lynn Calter.
For the intimate October 27 event, some 50 guests filed into the candle-lit Lead Apron Gallery, a white-washed, blank space on Melrose Avenue owned and operated by Jonathan Brown, who also heads the new Lead Apron Bookstore across the way (more on that sensational find later). Rachel Leigh Cooke and writer Tasha Nita Adams arrived in the same teal CLC frocks, and took it all in stride by posing together for the camera. Magda and Alex Berliner, George Kostiopoulos, shop owner Hillary Rush and Bravo reality star Merle Ginsberg clanked bubbly with a surprising turnout of the city's press (surprising, because many of them admitted to skipping so much of the month's fashion goings-on) Los Angeles Mag's Laurie Pike, Style Section LA’s Emili Vesilind, The L.A. Times's Melissa Magsaysay, Fashion Week Daily’s Jennifer Chan.
"I don't think L.A. is the venue for shows anymore," Corey told me. "I miss that homegrown feeling that L.A. Fashion Week had when I first arrived here, before I had a line. Something about the creativity that existed then. It felt cooler and underground, not like what was going on in New York. With this short film, I wanted something hopeful, playful. An opportunity to show the clothes, without doing a conventional format."
Rose Apodaca (ya, me), Andy Griffith and Corey Lynn Calter
What we got was an 8-minute presentation that filled three walls in the front room. A model appeared on the wall to our left, her foot step audible as she magically appeared on the wall in front of us. There she stopped and answered the question posed: "What is your favorite food?" ("Ketchup," said one); or "What instrument do you play?" ("Whistle."); or "What's your favorite word?" ("Cha-ching," deadpanned another model inciting laughter through the room.) She then moved on to the third wall to our right, with another model already on her heels answering the next question.
The result was crisp, entertaining and dazzling in the most lo-fi of ways. The crowd was definitely charmed. (Let's hope Corey gets it up on her site sooner than later...)
Laurie Pike, Glenn Kaino (in far back) and Jen Green like to watch.

By skipping the runway, Corey has her cake and...(model shown).
L.A. Times' Melissa Magsaysay
From concept to final edit, the project took only five, mad crazy days, noted Glenn, who was proudly showing his own latest work, a suede-covered tome chronicling the last decade of his subversive art installations. (Yes, "overachievers" doesn't even begin to describe this pair, who also happen to be the parents of two beautiful girls). The models were shot individually at Smashbox Studios on October 7. Glenn and his tech-savvy team then painted out the background and seamed in the edit to give the appearance of an endless loop. "The great part about it is it was this spontaneous thing," enthused Glenn. "Corey was also very aggressive in keeping it lo-fi and keeping the feeling of it all spontaneous."
Supper followed, elegantly spread out in white, down to the dozens of white candles flickering across two expansive tables. Stylist Jessica Paster tickled her Blackberry during most of the three courses prepped by Savore, while Decades' Cameron Silver kept us in stitches on our end of the table by taking the silk scarf Corey gifted everyone and wrapping it into an ascot, then a turban. Just the kind of spontaneous flights of fancy we've all been longing for.
Host with the Most Talent: Corey Lynn Calter and Glenn Kaino

On every chair, a wrapped silk scarf and disc of Sp 2010 looks.

Designer/stylist Magda Berliner mugs in her CLC scarf.
Magda, Cameron Silver and yours truly.

Stylists Laura Duncan and Emilie Pereira and magician Shana Honeyman

Photos: Courtesy of Chris Weeks/CLC, except trio during film, Magda Berliner in scarf, by Rose Apodaca
Blog Comments (4):
Posted by dfas on March 15, 2010 8:20 PM
Christian Louboutin
Alexander McQueen
Chloe
Fendi
Giuseppe Zanotti
jimmy choo
Manolo Blahnik
Miu Miu
Salvatore Ferragamo
Tory Burch
UGG Australia
Yves Saint Laurent

We have the 100% real louis vuitton handbags,you can click our webpage: Louis Vuitton to choose handbags for yourself. Sure,someone want Christian Louboutin,we know the Louboutin shoes are so fashion all around the world,it’s the best women’s shoes,if you are a fashion girl,you can buy discount handbags or manolo blahnik in my online shop.
Posted by wds on March 14, 2010 6:13 PM
Where Can I Find a Rating on Which replica Christian LouboutinShoes Are the Best From the Rest?
Discover Why Marc Jacobs Handbags Are Of The Highest Quality.
Where to Buy Wholesale Prada Handbags?
Roberto Cavalli Handbagsis a designer whose pieces are instantly recognizable.
Where to Buy the Best cheap led online.
Here are the world's bestwholesale led lights.
Who Wore Christian Louboutin Pumpsat the Grammy Awards This Year?
Comfortable and Fashionable Men's winter boots.
replica Tiffany Can Make One Always Feel Special.
Here are the lowestcheap abercrombie.
UGG Australia Womens Highkoo Are the Perfect Ones.
UGG Australia Sundance II For Everyone.
Find Luxurious Casual Wear at theAbercrombie Men Jeans.
Find Luxurious Casual Wear at theAbercrombie Women Jeans.
Tiffany & Co. Accessories - The Emphasis is on Style.
Tiffany & Co. Pendants is Becoming a New Favorite For Women.
Posted by zhuneilixu on February 04, 2010 11:31 PM
We brought together the world's top fashion trends of designer jeans to display their charming fashion imagination, creative unique design, to explore the city a unique atmosphere of casual upstart. With its fashion sense, he was ahead of the sensitive integration of the brand concept, the shackles of the traditional dress once released, infiltrated fashion, leisure elements, breaking the traditional framework, and vividly show the self-style, to bring traditional costumes outside the the trend of choice. We have diesel jeans, Ed-hardy jeans, D & G jeans, Levi's jeans and other brands of jeans, first of all to ensure adequate quality and comfort and make the product style and the beautiful, comfortable, classic European and American avant-garde style of the performance of most vividly Cheap jeans allow you to reduce overhead at the same time leading the fashion in our series of jeans, you can create their own unique personality delightful charm.Our center also has NFL Jerseys, as well as a variety of clothing cheap polo shirts

Air jordans shoes itself work very well,Wear after will feel elasticity, very comfortable,"The function is walking shoes, so when the design will comfort in the first,And when the sports shoes is lightsome feeling more comfortable, durability and wearing comfortable, walk the portability of new products, etc.To what extent can actually cheaper
,Our sports Chaussures at the Sports Chaussures and Cheap Nike Shoes etc all kinds ofcheap shoes our 2010 what you love design,our Sports Chaussures look at the welcome your presence
The cold winter, does not seem too for wedding. Most recently, the cold one after another, hangzhou air temperature pelter, let many wedding in late November bride is due a single wear gauze or dress, will feel cold, wear too much and feel very bloated. For the bride, the winter is the biggest test how wedding in temperature and balance between poise.

Don't be too upset, actually this season only fees cheap Wedding Dresses, marriage can create a different character "winter wedding", also more memorable.

You can use the glittering and translucent white fairy tale, cheap cell phones
,the artistic conception to dress up oneself's wedding, choose blue, green, white ice cold tonal, decorous atmosphere to create beautiful, Can borrow snow machine and bubble machine build indoor romantic atmosphere, snowflake, feathers, Christmas tree,cheap cocktail dresses, even is the element such as silver crystal, can add to your winter wedding dreamy colour, cheap jewelryyou can even in a pile of snowman YingBinChu lovely, guests, we must take it and will soon be well.
Posted by Boxed Sets on January 21, 2010 7:35 PM
290382728383369175 Funcom, DVD Sets the company DVD Boxed Sets that brought Boxed Set us the violent Boxed Set Dvds and bloody Age DVD Box Sets On Sale of Conan, has Boxed Sets decided to DVD TV Series establish a DVD Box Set subsidiary company under DVD BoxSets the name DVD Box Sets For Sale SweetRobot DVD BoxSet to develop and DVD Box Sets launch a Best DVD Box Sets new MMO Discount DVD Box Sets market casual Dvd Gift Sets market focused Dvd Gift Set on children and DVD Boxed Set adolescents.
Add a comment
Name
E-mail
snapshot of the moment
This glowing grouping is inside the Cafe ArtScience in Paris (see posting from March 9).
la vie en rose on le town
now reading

Rose
Her manuscript...
and
Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America by Peter Biskind

Andy

Mantuana: A Novel by the authors of Wu Ming
and
This last month's issues of The New Yorker since we were away.

Welcome to the A+R Store
Blanca Apodaca
The [Un]Observed Radio Magazine
LuxiRare
Philip Wood: Cultural Translations
The Barr Code
Sewing Rebellion
NotCot
Design Sponge
MocoLoco
Apartment Therapy
Dwell Magazine
Style.com
The Sartorialist
We Love You So
The Foodinista
  1. TOGEL HONGKONG