Christian Audigier says that the theme of his Spring 2008 collection proven at LA’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week on Tuesday afternoon is "La Vie en Rose," but a higher moniker might be "Trashy French Vamp," or even "Flashdance on Acid," primarily based on the styles he despatched down the black-carpet-and-glitter runway.
The men fared higher than the ladies within the Audigier show; they mainly wore his signature wildly patterned oversize hoodies, all embellished with the dressmaker’s name and assorted different motifs, commonly finished in glittery crystals, studding, and embroidery. Most have been paired with jeans, encrusted with Audigier’s huge signature throughout the backside, once more carried out in glitter, once in a while paired with a large cranium, different times with similar tattoo-stimulated motifs. There become a military bent to a few of the guys’s patterns, too; the primary male model even wore a military beret and saluted the photographers at the quit of the runway. Vests had been massive, too, and long, slouchy cutoff pants added a street gang vibe.
To make certain the ladies inside the target market (consisting of Brandy, Bai Ling, and chart-topping singer Bettina) were given a little eye candy, the fashion designer despatched some male models out wearing nothing however a skimpy pair of camouflage underwear, then delivered a version of hooded superhero capes worn over the undies, unzipped for effect at runway’s stop. One was however that skin display turned into nothing to what Christian Audigier presented at the ladies. There turned into the white micro-mini tee-shirt dress, worn over tan panties, garter belt, and sheer stockings ; the black bra, garter belt, and sheer stockings worn with a huge-open olive-toned raincoat; pores and skin-tight patterned gold leggings worn with a slouchy, off-the-shoulder patterned tee (sun shades of "Flashdance" and 1980s fashion there); and a black bra, paired with a black feather boa, and a see-via pair of tan knickers worn over black panties. Hooker elegant, certainly, and the kind of streetwear that sends a operating-female message.
Audigier’s capper, a sequence of seems that mixed absolutely sheer tulle skirts in shiny colours of crimson, inexperienced and electric powered blue showing the panties and garters under, paired with hoodies and matching berets, are an night look that isn’t possibly to make it to any Hollywood crimson carpets.
But as David Hasselhoff, who brought his teenage daughter Hayley to see the gathering, commented to Audigier after the show, "I liked it; the ladies looked top notch!" No word on whether or not he’ll let his female display her Audigier undies in public, however.