The Lourdes Chavez Collection

Seeing these fashions by Lourdes Chavez was a major part of this beautiful day benefiting the Mendez National Institute of Transplantation Foundation.  The fundraiser was to advance groundbreaking and incremental research, community education and outreach programs.  There are more than 122,000 patients who need help today, so being a small part of this event was rewarding.  

http://www.jc.org/ Jonathan Club

Fall-Winter 2015/16 Haute Couture CHANEL Show

The Story of the Fall-Winter 2015/16 Haute Couture CHANEL show

Fashion Show

The 33rd annual scholarship fashion show, benefiting scholarships for students at the Otis College of Art and Design, was held on May 2, 2015, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.  

As a member of a group that has, for the past 40 years, raised funds for that same goal, I was privileged to attend the dress rehearsal.  Following are some of the many designs by the graduating students who have been mentored by such distinguished designers as:  Bob Mackie, Trina Turk, Morgane Le Fay, Anne Cole, Quicksilver, etc.  

 

  

Ralph Lauren in Malibu

I love the peaking in the window to see the new styles and their lovely garden.  

LACMA Celebrates "The Wrap Dress"

Forty years ago, Diane Von Fustenberg designed the first wrap dresses in her own cunning prints in vivid colors.  

The Los Angeles County Museum of art has an exhibit celebrating the popularity of that design to this day.  http://www.dvf.com/wrap40/ 

Like many women, I can remember my first wrap dress.  It was a dusty purple.  I lived in Pittsburgh.  The time was the late 1970's.  And, I felt like a million bucks in it.  

Ralph Lauren in Malibu