What: LA Fashion Weekend is a joke. And a bad one at that…

I really, really try to keep things cool, humble and kind on Left Coast Fashion, but to me LA Fashion Weekend is a shining  star example of everything that can be wrong LA Fashion Week. I think a better name for this would be “The Mikey Koffman Variety Hour.” My impression is that Koffman pulls together her friends and anyone insane enough to pay what I heard her fees are to show on the LA Fashion Weekend runway, and bam…LA Fashion Weekend. The kind of stuff dreams are made of, right?

I was only able to attend the Saturday night show, which opened up with some “next big” songstress whose name I can’t recall. She lip-synced, that’s how major she was, and I think from that point on I had a bad taste in my mouth.

The shows themselves were fine. The whole thing was just kind of underwhelming, under-attended and well…boring. There was this moment at the beginning where two models came out wearing outfits designed in response to the new Nobu Hotel at Caesar’s Palace in Vegas, and you could hear the audible WTF coming off the crowd.

The air was filled with self-gratification. Instead of moving LA fashion forward, Mikey and her “Fashion Weekend” are keeping this great city leaps behind the rest of the fashion world.

She should take some cues from those over at The LA Fashion Council…

When: October 19 – 21, 2012

Where: Sunset / Gower Studios. A lot of cool factor for having the shows on a famous studio lot. The setting is definitely the most like New York Fashion Week, at least when they were in the tents at Bryant Park. Nothing extraordinary, but nice enough.

For all of my LA Fashion Weekend S/S 2013 images click here.

For all of my LA Fashion Weekend S/S 2013 images click here.