This Saturday, LACMA will present the RODARTE: Fra Angelico Collection, a 10-gown installation that will be displayed alongside classic artwork from the Italian Renaissance. Rodarte designers, sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy, have drawn inspiration from Italian painter Fra Angelico among others for their Spring/Summer 2012 couture designs, using their signature dressmaking techniques, sculptural details and a soft fresco color palette to round out the refined collection.
Rodarte’s Fra Angelico Collection Debuts This Weekend at LACMA
Pencil This In: Beats for Boobs, Literary Death Match & Cheese
Narrowing down this evening's event offerings was a difficult task, but we're happy to be the ones to do it. The list begins with free fashion and ends with free wine tasting. Yes, please, to both. Rodarte talks about their new book, a double feature screens "Easy Rider" and Andrew's Cheese Shop presents its monthly lesson in fromage.
Rodarte Exhibition Featuring 'Black Swan' Tutus Opens Tonight at MOCA
Pirouette or plié to MOCA Pacific Design Center tonight (March 4) for the public opening of "Rodarte: States of Matter." Featuring garments from three of Rodarte's twelve runway collections, the exhibition also presents six tutus from the film Black Swan. Rodarte designed the black and white ballet costumes worn in the film.
"Black Swan" Tutus on Display at MOCA's Rodarte Show
Whether it was the allure of elegant dancers on their tippy-toes, the charms of Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis, or the appeal of a disturbing thriller that drew you to the cineplex to see Black Swan, the art of the dance was a big part of the visually dynamic Oscar-nominated film. Part of the world of ballet are its costumes, and the dark-versus-light of the evil and good swans played out on the stage and in the feathers and tulle of the dancing garb.
L.A.'s Rodarte Designs Killer Costumes For 'Black Swan'
Darren Aronofsky's nine-year-old Grimm brainchild Black Swan is finally being released to the world on December 3. Brutal and beautiful, the film is a visually stunning journey of a not very pretty sight, the gory gorgeousness reaching its pinnacle with the ballet costumes -- particularly the glorious black swan costume -- designed by L.A.'s own Laura and Kate Mulleavy of the much celebrated line, Rodarte.
Gap Launches Expensive Designer White Shirts
For the past several seasons The Gap has been in a serious creative rut with completely lackluster clothes and equally dull ad campaigns, but the company aims to change all that with today's introduction of a limited edition collection for women designed by three hot, up-and-coming fashion designers. Following in the footsteps of mass-market clothing retailers H&M, Topshop and Target, all of whom have commissioned high-end designers to create limited edition clothing lines, The...

