{"id":40072,"date":"2018-05-03T23:52:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T03:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=40072"},"modified":"2018-05-04T00:18:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T04:18:02","slug":"byron-lars-and-my-met-gala-dream-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/byron-lars-and-my-met-gala-dream-look\/","title":{"rendered":"Byron Lars and My Met Gala Dream Look"},"content":{"rendered":"

My designing friend Stacy Lomman teaches at the famous Fashion Institute of Technology<\/a>, her own alma mater. Every year, during the final semester for graduating students, the school brings in designers<\/a> to mentor the students as they work on their final projects in the categories of intimate apparel, special occasion, knitwear, children\u2019s wear, and sportswear. Students doing an eight-semester degree have a chance to be chosen for the school’s massive “Future of Fashion<\/a>” show, while the students getting a four-semester degree have their pieces shown at a chic exhibit.<\/p>\n

Stacy taught a fourth-semester class this year, which was working with the design theme of “Cabinet of Curiosities.” To judge the creations, she recruited FIT graduate and all-around nice guy Byron Lars<\/a> as her class’s designer.\u00a0 I was thrilled by this because Byron was one of the young New York designers<\/a> I admired in the early 1990s. I’m so thankful that I didn’t follow conventional closet-purging wisdom and divest myself of Byron’s ruffled baseball vest.<\/p>\n

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I blogged about that vest in February 2010, and then decided I wanted to know more about Byron’s current work than I could find on his website. I reached out to his people and, within a month, he kindly did an interview by email even though he was busy working in China.<\/p>\n

CLICK HERE FOR MY 2010 BYRON LARS INTERVIEW.<\/a><\/p>\n

Because I’m a tricksy hobbit<\/a>, always looking for a precious vintage item, I threw in this question among the ones about his Byron Lars Beauty Mark collection<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“I still have a ruffled \u201cbaseball\u201d vest of yours that I got at a sample sale back in the day. I\u2019m haunted by the fact that I never got the long-sleeved jacket version.\u00a0 If you happen to find one in a size small in the back of your closet, will you give it to me?”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Alas, he doesn’t even have one himself, though he did promise that if he ever made anything similar, he’d get it to me.<\/p>\n

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