widely used for his flashy maximalist aesthetic, L.A.-primarily based fashion designer Johnson Hartig showed a decidedly glamorous fall-wintry weather 2019 collection at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Hancock Park on Friday evening, styled by way of B Akerlund (frequent for her work with Madonna). Dita Von Teese, Malin Akerman, Marilyn Manson, Fergie, Adam Lambert, Jaimie King, Sofia Boutella, Liz Goldwyn and florist-to-the-stars Eric Buterbaugh were among the entrance-row visitors, who seen the parade of male and feminine models donning the newest tackle the label's signature mash-up of vibrant prints and astounding crystal ornament.
"we are embellishment and pattern people," Hartig told The Hollywood Reporter. "suggestion is all over the map — every little thing from 17th-century Flemish memento mori paintings and Ottoman carpeting to 18th century children's hats and nineteenth century botanicals."
The melting pot pattern combine included pink-and-black cheetah brocade, green malachite, lemon tree branches, and a pattern with photographs of loafers, rotary telephones and Jean Paul Sartre's ebook Being and Nothingness. There become additionally iridescent blue and purple lamé suiting for men and ladies printed with hand-written lyrics by Jimi Hendrix, a part of an ongoing collaboration between Libertine and the Jimi Hendrix estate.
Johnson referred to as out oversize wool jackets embellished with a fringed collage of ribbons, bottle caps and chain paillettes as amongst his favourite items, comparing the appear to a "modern-day shaman."
guys's styles ranged from streetwear akin to patchworked hoodies, Libertine brand underwear and sweatpants, patterned bomber jackets and a rhinestone-spangled denim jacket to coats and statement suiting.
"You be aware of i like sparkly things, so Libertine is like a fashion wet dream for me," Lambert said.
additionally on parade have been colorful faux-fur jackets and pink carpet-important spangled pants and robes. Von Teese had her eye on a protracted sheer sequined costume shown on a model whose hair burst into crimson plumage. "It become so desirable! Johnson has left loads of glamour in L.A.," she told THR.
and then there have been the piled-on accessories together with covetable crystal-embellished lace hosiery, fanciful pipe-cleaner crowns, strappy heels (some trimmed with pom-poms), sparkly chandelier earrings worn on each and every ear in varied, and armfuls of colourful stacked bangles long-established out of packing tape.
The arty exuberance carried through to hair, makeup and nails. models had multi-coloured crystals applied to their foreheads, bold fuchsia eyeshadow, stripes of coloured liner swiped vertically above and below the eyes like lashes, extremely-lengthy lower lash extensions, braided hair decorated with vivid mohawk-like plumes, and fringed nail extensions.
"To me, makeup and hair is all the time key to anything you do and it tells the story," Akerlund informed THR. "The makeup is an extension of the designs. We have been trying to choose one make-up seem to be but then I preferred so many who we simply did 4 as a result of extra is more!"
Donning a customized gray windowpane-investigate Libertine coat embellished everywhere with the word "Neat," Marilyn Manson gave his publish-exhibit evaluation to THR. "i believed the display changed into staggering. I must say that, strangely, I preferred the ladies's items more than the guys's but, you understand me, I'm donning lipstick so… My favourite were the sequined silver stockings. and that i idea that the eyeliners and eyelashes were basically epic."
"It changed into excellent," Fergie talked about. "Standing ovation! It became type of like a rebirth. It turned into in bloom, it was colorful, rock 'n' roll, palm trees, nature on the nails. What's no longer to like? My friend B Akerlund styled it. I'm so proud."
Akerlund weighed in on her in the back of-the-scenes styling adventure, telling THR: "we're two loopy americans working together. I'm an over-accessorizer and so is Johnson and here's what you get! I've in no way met anyone who advised me, 'No, extra!' people usually tell me, 'can you tone it down?' What I truly like about Libertine is that issues get recycled and restyled and reused. I'm definitely into sustainability and doing my part to save the planet…i love the whole working technique within the Libertine studio. It's about 'Oh we want this!' And we can simply go into this bin and add issues and do things very spontaneously and remaining second, and that's my category of jam. It's all reworked one way or the other."
Hartig and the Libertine crew all wore white lab jackets with "Libertine Superlab" printed on the again along with an atomic symbol and the phrases "warning, Warning, danger" so as to also be offered as part of the assortment.
Libertine's homecoming exhibit follows a fashion of style labels reminiscent of Rodarte, Tommy Hilfiger, Tom Ford, Jeremy Scott, Rachel Zoe and Yves Saint Laurent showing their collections in los angeles.
Hartig emphasizes that putting the reveal together on the West Coast was far from essential: "I'm decent but I'm completely happy it's over with, as it become so much extra intricate showing here than it is in ny," says Hartig. "we now have an infrastructure in manhattan and we have nothing right here, so we had to cobble it together, which became extraordinarily frustrating, nonetheless it got here out well."
After the trend reveal, guests moved into the outside courtyard for cocktails, handed hors d'oeuvres and a performance by model-musician Ariel Beesley, a San Fernando Valley native.
right through the after-birthday celebration, Buterbaugh shared his surprising reference to Hartig: "I'm so happy with Johnson. I consider [the show] is next-level for him. The styling, the make-up, every element became simply beyond description. I even have a smooth spot for him as a result of Johnson used to carry flora for my flower shop before he began the manufacturer, so I've time-honored him that lengthy. It makes my coronary heart beam with pleasure to peer him be successful like this." He added, "The demonstrate was so glamorous. i thought the red and black cheetah prints were so desirable and also that costume with the gold chains striking off it. To be sincere, it became piece after piece. I needed to graphic the finale so i will go through it later!"
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