

Camisoles. Bustiers. Garters. Corsets. All of these were on full display in a show that took place in a dark room punctuated by dramatic columns of white light. The show was titled: "Seduction. Layering to Reveal. Done and Undone."


"California Dreamin'" was on the soundtrack, and that's what was on Wang's mind, too, she said, as she developed her collection, though to others there was a distinct Victorian feel as well.

"It was a California dream, yeah, sexy, underwear, layering, things falling off," she said in an interview backstage. "Also, girls falling off their shoes," she quipped of some models' mishaps involving impossibly long skirts and spiky high heels. "That I didn't plan on, but it happened."

Realizing her vision "was wonderful because it was very much the mood I was in," Wang said. "You know as a designer you feel what's going on around you, at least I do, culturally. It isn't just an isolated exercise. So I really wanted that hippie hair and LA attitude, but the clothes were definitely couture."


"Film is very different than staging 45 girls, and fittings," she noted, adding that "the level of clothing that we make and show is very couture. It's not meant to be contemporary or ready-to-wear, it's really about the craft of creating, incredible workmanship."

She credited her team: "No matter what I dream, if they can't sew it, it's not real," she said.




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