by Christina Tung
Once again I felt time warped into the wrong season. This time, instead of just colors from the Crayola BOLD Marker Set, fall leaves and red shadow plaids decorated the runway.
Justin Timberlake and childhood friend Trace Ayala has hired design duo Mr. & Mrs. Lindberg to craft their Spring '09 collection, which in my eyes looks like Fall, but that's just me. The models walked straight out of a Tennessee porch, literally and onto the runway, while guests sat on distressed wooden benches surrounded by crisp maple leaves and galvanized pails filled with cans of Budweiser. The clothes - fringe, fringe, fringe. And some denim. The opener was a softened up white leather biker jacket with pyramid studs paired with slouchy denim cutoffs. This girl is no Daisy Duke, despite her plaid shirts, distressed denim and Southern drawl. The William Rast girl resembles a downtown East Village kind of girl if she relocated to the South. Or maybe vice versa? No doubt, model-stylist-designer friend Erin Wasson had a hand in the dirty MOD (Model Off Duty) look.
The boys' looks ranged from a biker-mechanic to modern Southern gentlemen, many wearing strangely abbreviated neckties. Trace & JT donned representations of the two extreme William Rast personas, respectively.
Front row boasted a flicker of celebrities from Kevin Connolly and Jeremy Piven from Entourage, Erin Wasson, Anna Wintour and oddly enough, Rachel Hunter. It was nowhere near the star wattage one might expect from JT's NY fashion week debut, but I guessed that all his close A-list friends and main squeeze (where was she?) were cross-country in Hollywood at the MTV VMA's. Justin certainly proved where his priorities lay, by choosing fashion over music on Sunday night. (He also hosted the star studded Fashion Rocks event a few nights before) And the most impressive part was his role as creative director on the runway when he introduced the designers and even gave Johan Lindberg a playful 1-2 punch.
View the complete collection here.
But, you can watch the show here:
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