By Laura Medina
Manhattanite Fashion Designer and Hamptons Preppy Surfer, Cynthia Rowley threw a rare, New York-sophisicated runway show, that's the sophisication that Los Angeleno fashionistas yearn for.
The most obvious is that she hired Los Angeles' own American Contemporary Ballet troupe to model and move in her latest Spring and Summer 2020 Dr. Seuss Collection.
She acquired intellectual property right (I.P.) in order to take Dr. Seuss' illustrations to make them into graphic prints and patterns onto her Spring and Summer 2020 Collections. Wise lady. She even took Dr. Seuss' pastels then morphed them into pastel, sunset-sunrise ombres on her signature wet suits.
Hosted in the art gallery wing of Melet Mercantile LA, the latest westward expansion of NY's Melet Mercantile, local fashionistas commented how the Boyle Heights/East Los Angeles side of the LA River, reminds them of SoHo's/Brooklyn's gritty, cheap past when artists and designers used to rule the industrial roost before developers took over,
A mere five minutes away, across the river, another gritty, industrial space, slaughter house-art gallery-concert club, is hosting an exclusive Dr. Martens' concert of up and coming punk rocker, De'Wayne Jackson.
A further expansion of Black-American Angst Punk, from Bad Brains and Fishbones, De'Wayne Jackson picked up the mantle, where they left off.
There ain't nothing like a young, fresh punk singing Iggy Pop's "I Wanna Be Your Dog."
With plenty of raw, spacious, industrial warehouses to serve as blank canvases for whichever and whatever event, at reasonable prices, Downtown LA is the new SoHo/Lower East Side/Brooklyn.
Still dangerous enought to be raw, rough, and tough to be hype. It's an hidden neighborhood to be decrepit enough to scare away the wanna-be posers, that only in the know "knows" which art gallery to go to and when and where to park.
Exploring so the weak-hearted uninitiated don't have to brave up to make the trip-not yet anyway.
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