Reclaimed in LA Silk Gown

No one celebrates reinvention as stylishly and ravenously as bon vivant, Alicia Lawhon. From celebrity dresser at Ron Herman/Fred Segal to her new line Reclaimed in LA, to her incarnation as costume designer and stylist, Alicia’s sensibilities are consistent throughout whatever she takes on. Whatever she touches is unquestioningly Los Angeles. Lawhon states, "My aesthetic started in Nayarit, Mexico where I was born and lived until I was five. Working with whatever we had, we transformed unwanted and discarded items by decorating them, reworking them, making them useful and desirable. Bringing this sense of reinvention with me to Hollywood during the rebellious early '80s, I was thrilled at creating homegrown punk outfits for my new life here. It was not until 1990 that the high-brow aspect of my vision was unleashed. Working at Ron Herman/Fred Segal introduced me to European designers, and I was able to incorporate those inspirations with my ideas and aesthetics. It felt like my formative years in Mexico led up to this moment of postmodern explosive creation, combining the high-brow with the low-brow. 
Inspired by the primitive combined with European or found items and preferring to hand-stitch in gold thread, braid, or using leather to bound and sculpt, collapsing international sensibilities has strongly influenced Alicia’s collections and shows. From The Day of the Dead in Mexico City, with models sporting masks on the runway, to Bali sarongs, to a Palm Springs desert pallet for Fall, Lawhon takes whatever she finds in the world and reworks it into its own recombined and unique form. Whether it’s for a line or for home furnishings, it becomes about a lifestyle, a complete package, creating a totality of reinvention that is uniquely Alicia Lawhon, and very Los Angeles.

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