PROFILE
FROM Rose Apodaca
The Man Who Put Rodeo Drive on the Map Not long ago, Rodeo Drive was just another street in Southern California. Then along came Fred Hayman and Giorgio of Beverly Hills. Hayman was working at the Beverly Hilton in 1961 when he and his partners bought a struggling women’s clothing store at the corner of Rodeo and Dayton. The store put Rodeo Drive on the worldwide map for the rich and famous, and the rest is Hollywood history. We remember Fred Hayman, who died last week at the age of 90.
LA Fashion Week LA Fashion Week launches this week. We look at the connections between LA and Berlin fashion, and whether the concept of a fashion week is still relevant.
Michael Schmidt Makes a 3-D Printed Dress Michael Schmidt has spent decades cladding Cher, Madonna, Lady Gaga and other supernovas in stunning costumes made of materials that don’t fit the usual definition of fabric: from Legos to chain mail of sterling silver links to razor blades. Now he's testing the possibilities of printed powdered plastic, in a dress designed with architect Francis Bitonti, for burlesque artist Dita Von Teese. He says wanted to take the "inherently rigid material" and render it "supple." That dress -- made of thousands of components covered in Swarovski crystals -- and some of his others will be on show at LACMA Wednesday night in an event produced by the Costume Council. And there he will also talk to fashion journalist and A+R owner Rose Apodaca about his work and life. Apodaca also interviewed Schmidt for DnA, as they prepared for their night at LACMA. He explained that his career got started when he moved from Kansas City to New York and he got his first big break when Cher bought a creation of his.
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