Los Angeles Fashion Week announces designers for next edition

One year after the revelation of its new concept, the new edition of Los Angeles Fashion Week has just announced the list of principal designers invited to show and present from October 18 to 22. 

Among the 13 brands announced, many emerging Los Angeles-based brands and designers will be taking part in the calendar. A smarter offer, still oriented towards diversity, and quite different from the last edition, whose incoherent selection proposed only three brands from Los Angeles, and a few disconnected partnerships.
 
The long-awaited Kwame Adusei brand was founded in 2021 by Ghanaian-born designer Nana Kwame Adusei. The designer has been invited to show at this new edition, and will present his timeless new collection, inspired by chic, glamour and Africa through the prism of body structure. Increasingly courted, the designer recently opened a boutique-gallery in Beverly Hills. 

 
Another up-and-coming LA figure, designer Tommy Bogo, will present his streetwear, utilitarian, sustainable and futuristic-twist collection for men. The designer has already presented his collections at New York Fashion Week and Paris Fashion Week last June. ​

Also spotted at New York Fashion Week in early September, Keith Herron, aka Rooftop, will present his brand Advisry. Founded in 2014 in Sacramento, when he was just 14, Advisry has subsequently developed into a multimedia brand that produces films, releases music, curates a radio station and make clothes. Fashion that likes to mix genres like formal and prep style, also revisits Hollywood glamour and is now opening up to color.

In a totally different story, LAFW will welcome fashion tech brand Neon Cowboys. Also based in Los Angeles, Asia Hall made a name for herself with her first collection of glowing western hats wrapped in neon wire that traces the hat’s shape. This invention led to a collaboration with country music star Kacey Musgraves. Since then, the designer has developed an entire wardrobe specializing in western glowing apparel and accessories. 
 
Sergio Hudson, the 2013 winner of Bravo’s Styled to Rock fashion competition television show, will present his elegant luxury ready-to-wear for women, perfectly in tune with the times, while LA-based designer Pierre Davis, founder of gender-neutral label No Sesso, and first transgender designer to present at New York Fashion Week, will present his latest collection in a runway show.

Also open to New York brands, LAFW will feature the Theophilio label by Brooklyn-based designer Edvin Thompson, as well as designer and actress Tara Subkoff, founder of the Imitation of Christ label in 2000, who, two years after her return to New York Fashion Week, will present her latest creations in an off-site venue. 
 
Flamboyant, the BruceGlen collection, will showcase the fashion of twins Bruce and Glen Proctor. Self-proclaimed “fashion preachers”, the brothers began their career at House of Dereon, the ready-to-wear fashion line launched by Beyoncé and her mother Tina Lawson and discontinued in 2012. Their brand of leather accessories and sustainable apparel debuted their first collection with the New York Fashion Week last year for the Fall/Winter 2022 season. This time, they will be showing in Los Angeles.
 
Spanish-born designer Luis de Javier, currently the only international fashion guest, will be sending out a message of freedom and empowerment with his queer fashion London-based brand. Already present at last year LAFW, AnOnlyChild, Sami Miro Vintage and Demobaza will be joining the 2023 line-up.