LA Fashion Week: IMASU by Kelly Nishimoto
| Posted Mar 12th 2008 6:55PM by Lauren Messiah
Filed under: Fashion Week: Los Angeles
L.A. Fashion Week kicked off at 4pm on Sunday with a show by Kelly Nishimoto. Who? Yeah, that's what I said. A no-name opening up Fashion Week was a bad sign but I tried to remain positive. My positive spirit started to diminish after waiting for 45 minutes for the show to start. Listen Kelly, you ain't no Marc Jacobs sweetie! Let's start the show on time.Once the show got underway I couldn't wait for it to end. It was dreadful. If I were to give the show a name it would be 'The joker and the thief and Kelly Nishimoto' because it looked like a medieval nightmare. There was crazy ribbon work, hoods, ruffles in all the wrong places, tassels, bows -- she basically took every Fall 2008 trend and piled them into one hellish collection.
The end of the show when Kelly came out to take her bow was the real kicker though. Most designers step out a few feet, bow, and turn around to get the hell off the stage. Kelly, her model, and a man dressed up in a Pink Panther costume (I can't make this stuff up people) took a good 5 minutes to get down the runway. Once the clan got to the end Kelly wouldn't leave the end of the runway. She stayed down there posing like a dope for so long that her model left the runway and the photographers actually stopped snapping photos. I was mortified for her.
If LA Fashion Week keeps at this pace it's going to be a long week.
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4-17-2008 @ 7:50PM
HOTTT!!NYC said...
I was shocked to read this LONG comment on here in reference to IMASU by Kelly Nishimoto...I have been following her line for years and I think she just keeps getting better and better each season. Hell, I flew all the way from New York for fashion week and I thought it was a colorful exciting way to start the week off! The collection was ecclectic, detailed-yet simple, and fucking HOT!! Am I permitted to say fuck on here!? Anyway, for someone who was so angry with the show-you sure took a lot of time to type out that long negative email_Maybe you should have another cocktail and try smiling before you go to sleep- you wake up a little happier in the morning!
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