{"id":20314,"date":"2013-10-03T13:46:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T18:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/modacycle.com\/?p=20314"},"modified":"2013-10-03T13:46:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T18:46:04","slug":"jeremy-laing-rave-on-barbie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/2013\/10\/03\/jeremy-laing-rave-on-barbie\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Laing – Rave On, Barbie"},"content":{"rendered":"

story by Lisa-Maria Radano
\nphotos by Charles Beckwith<\/p>\n

Jeremy Laing lives and works in Toronto, where the winter is long and dark, and summer is lovingly referred to as three months of bad sledding. An understandable longing for hot summer days and hotter nights informed his Spring-Summer 2014 collection, shown in New York, where we take heat waves for grumpily granted. When the sprightly young designer was asked to verbally autograph the show moments before it began he chirruped, \u201cits Malibu Beach Barbie goes to a rave!\u201d<\/p>\n

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For rave attendance, there were ample and voluminous layers, with Laing\u2019s signature boxy yet flowing cut. Shorts, culottes, tunics, unstructured jackets in both neutral shades and salt water taffy colors, many with large patch pockets (so you can twirl all the night long without carrying a purse), had a 90\u2019s feel. But you\u2019d never catch our girl Barbie in any of these breezy tech poplin numbers. For her, there were zero slack zip front tube skirts with sliding off the shoulder crop-top bustiers in steely silver mesh bonded jersey.<\/p>\n

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Known for his love of prints, Laing collaborated with his friend Julia Dault, a New York-based artist to create several originals, including the delicate butterfly wing print on creamy white backing used for two chemises, one draped and one fitted. Another print looked like a windshield wiper slathering of muted pastels, and was beautifully used in both a long and short column with a fly-front bodice. There was also a pastel ground with squiggly black lines, which I was told was an homage to a Canadian Ice Cream called Tiger Tail, peach-based, with licorice swirled throughout. I\u2019m guessing that\u2019s a \u2018don\u2019t knock it till you\u2019ve tried it\u2019 treat.<\/p>\n

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Along with his spiffy prints, Laing had fun with texture. Burnout jersey,\u00a0rip stop silk, chalk-stripe stretch linen, glass organza and a charming pattern of squares suspended in\u00a0finest mesh all provided depth and girding to the fly away pieces. So did the chunky ankle boots Laing offered by way of a brand new collaboration with LD Tuttle. New for Laing too, was the menswear shown, however with the exception of Barbie\u2019s curve-hugging skirts, a boyfriend and girlfriend could easily share most pieces in this well crafted collection.<\/p>\n

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As \u201cMalibu Beach Barbie goes to a rave\u201d portrays much of the population of young Hollywood these days, it\u2019s a cinch to picture these modern, chic, roll-out casual clothes in the Brentwood Farmer\u2019s Market, or on a Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf run with Papparazzi nipping not far behind.<\/p>\n

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