LOS ANGELES - Rock Republic touted the success of its hometown's top trend premium denim at a star-studded bash at the new nightclub Area during Los Angeles Fashion Week. In L.A.
, denim certainly is something worth celebrating. Rock Republic actually debuted its spring collection with skinny jeans, short shorts and micro minis at New York Fashion Week last month. But the company wanted to acknowledge its roots with the Wednesday night party, said designer and chief executive Michael Ball.
Highlights from the New York show played on big-screen TVs throughout the venue. "Premium denim was born in L.A.
," he said. "We want to make sure we always do something here during fashion week." Among the denim-clad celebs at the event were Jeremy Piven, Jonathan Silverman, Nick Cannon and Natasha Henstridge.
Besides Rock Republic, Los Angeles is home to some of today's hottest denim designers, including True Religion, 7 For All Mankind and Frankie B. They make jeans that are more than just jeans: they're luxury items coveted by celebrities, fashionistas and regular Janes alike. They can cost upward of $200 a pair.
The "awesome fit" makes it worth it, said Rock Republic reveler Irina Yakubchuk. And compared with some other designer fashions, "a $250 jean doesn't seem so bad," said Sally Singer, Vogue's fashion news director. "It's better than the $750 trouser.
And for $250, you might look really hot." Levi Strauss, father of the denim jean, couldn't have imagined that the durable workpant he developed in 1873 would have gone so glam. It's L.
A.'s dressed-down-yet-get-noticed vibe that makes it the perfect place for premium denim, Singer said. "You look foolish in L.
A. if you're too dressed up. Jeans are where people define themselves.
" Daniella Clarke, founder of Frankie B., paid homage to denim's rock 'n' roll spirit with her spring 2007 collection, which she previewed Monday at L.A.
Fashion Week headquarters, Culver City's Smashbox Studios. The jeans were sleek and skintight, some striped and others with snakeskin prints. High-end denim "became big faster here than it did anywhere else because (L.
A.) has been known to be a casual town," Clarke said. And, apparently it's staying one, even if designers in the other fashion capitals signaled a shift away from denim and even away from pants and into draped dresses instead.
Japanese denim-maker Evisu chose opening day of L.A. Fashion Week for its first U.
S. showing. Known for pricey, handmade designs, Evisu's spring line featured slick, skinny jeans and a strapless black denim jumpsuit.
Other denim-heavy lines on display during L.A. Fashion Week included Hollywood-based Morphine Generation and William Rast, the year-old clothing company founded by Justin Timberlake and his friend Trace Ayala.
Associated Press Writer Solvej Schou contributed to this report.
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im a die-hard MCR fan and reading this truley makes me want to cry! not because of MCR but out of sheer envy for all the fans that got to see what sounds like another amazing MCR extravaganza!!! My Chemical Romance are truley magical live, and all 3 of their albums are incredible.
Some time this year there was a "get together" at one of the homes of the members of "Take That" the one exception was Robbie Williams. Can you help to solve a discussion when it was, and if possible the name of one of the band members who has been on TV morning programme who had been writing music by himself? Any help oul be appreciated. Roy Lewis
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Wow. Just saw it. People were cheering at the end of the movie!!!
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I really wish the show would come back I loved it now that show really made me laugh. First of all is is not fair to call Al Sharpton stupid. He merly voiced his own opinion, and did not change it based on what other people said, freedom of speech and voiceing ones own opinion is one of the things Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. fought for. That being said, i find this in no way offesnsive.
The lessons and meanings behind the episodes of Boondocks are often misconstrued. Instead of focusing ones whole attention on a word about someones ethnicity, those who watch the show, should focus thier the attention on the true lessons that can be gained from the show. This episode should not be all about the use of the n-word.
Whos to say that if He was alive today, he would have used the n-word, he may have, and he may not have. Rather then concerning oneself with the use of a racial slur, focus on what Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.
was all about, and not a word, that he did not even say himself. Dr.Marthin Luther King Jr.
was about unity and equality, and to ingore that message, because of one word, completly underminds what He fought for. So instead of seeing this as a mockery of a great man,see it as a tribute to a great man, and the things that He tried is hardest to uphold.
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