Pink Lady
It's official--2007 was the year Ray Ban took over Sunset Junction. Literally every second or third human was sporting a pair, with frames in various shades of pink, red or Pollock. They were worn with porkpie hats, buzz cuts and sunken cheeks during the Buzzcocks, and with berets, white tees and freshly-trimmed bang-mullets during Autolux.
We also saw many skinny jeans in bright colors. And lots and lots of Indian-style leather sandals. There was the expected proliferation of neon fanny-packs although really, this look is getting kinda boring. And did anyone else see the trio of young "wives of Father Yod," each wearing different but equally fabulous headbands, à la 1960s Laurel Canyon?
We found this rather special fuschia femme outside the House of Mirrors. Her name is Erica and she is part of dance company Hysterica. Double points for her Joan Collins shoulder pads.
Top marks to the super-authentic plaid-shirt wearing Kurt Cobain crew. And to the guy with long hair and green tinted glasses who looked like a wizard. Did you see him? Who WAS he?
We loved the pretty lesbians holding hands, but not the fake "Girls Gone Wild" ones in hot pants making out for the leery photographers. Yuk. There were sundresses aplenty, in pretty vintagey patterns, worn by girls with piercings and short, side-parted haircuts in an array of alterna-shades from black to plum to orange.
Saturday brought with it a heavy hipster vibe (skinny pretty boys looking miserable, skinny girls in neon), but they wisely fled for the hills on Sunday, when the tats n' piercings crowd came out to worship at the Buzzcocks altar. Girls wore their eyebrows pencil-thin and their scarlet lips were matte as can be (MAC Russian Red, anyone?). Guys were meth-head gaunt, heavily inked and prone to starting one-man mosh pits.
While avoiding being struck in the face during one of these, it struck me that the so-called 90s revival (yaaaawn) may actually be a good thing for the folks of Silverlake, many of whom have been rocking the grunged-out torn jeans and green hair look for years, regardless of the ebb and flow of fashion.
The more things change, the more they stay the same...
