Runway LV Cruise 2016

A state: California

A location: Palm Springs

An environment: Bob and Dolores Hope’s estate designed by architect John Lautner in 1973

Here are the main characters.  It’s a landscape, a global atmosphere that creates this cruise collection.  To allow this structure laid here like a concrete cupola in the desert to live for the duration of a show. 

A community of young women lives here.  They stroll in long garments opposite other young women in short attire.  They incarnate the ambiguous atmosphere that Los Angeles breathes; a mutable city that spread to infinity.  It is a strange territory where the Hollywood dream mingles with a fascination for headlines.  A magnetic territory where the essence of glamour blends with an obscure desire for the gothique.  A fascinating territory where the conquering architecture defies a seismic ground waiting to tremble.  Palm Springs, a city that initiated the “resort” mindset becomes the scene where all these travels play out, like an endless come and go, between here, there and elsewhere….