For Stacey Clark, designer behind emerging L.A.-based line Odilon, the future is not pretty—though her clothes are. The 23-year-old Canadian transplant (and an accomplished equestrian champion in her own right) says she referenced both primordial times and the End of Days in the 12 looks shown at the Eighth Veil gallery in Hollywood on Wednesday evening. “I love movies like 28 Days Later,” she says. “This is what they’d be wearing—only chic.” Clark and assistant designer Harold Kuhn’s pieces are superbly constructed–as Harvey Nichols and Intermix have already noticed (both have picked up the line). She uses thick neoprene and fabrics more likely to be seen on the inside of running shoes for minimalist dresses, and partially dyed the rabbit fur on a $1,700 leather jacket (pictured). The look appears natural at one moment, and blaze orange the next (the color represents a nuclear explosion, she says).
The collection was accompanied by Dual, a vivid short film by Alia Raza that featured, among other imagery, a model wandering in an arid wasteland and wearing an Odilon transluscent raincoat lined with spiderweb organza.
