Molly

By Karen Ostlund

HOLLYWOOD CA (Hollywood Today)  3/21/10 — Fashion Week continues with a 1 year anniversary of What Goes Around comes Around vintage store at Space15 Twenty,  in the heart of Hollywood .

(1520 N.Cahuenga blvd)

The two co-founders Seth Weisser and Gerard Maione were pleased to celebrate the success of making their vintage lifestyle brands a bi-coastal market.

WGACA  have also showrooms in New York (13-17 Laight St), Oslo-Norway (Kaare Lund, Kongens Gate 24) and Germany-Dusseldorf (Unifa, Weizenmuhlenstra.21) .

The Fall 2010 Collection of WGACA was showcased as model installations for both sexes on two stages inside the store.

Attendees included actress Monet Mazar wearing a Holly Harp dress, model Atlanta de Cadenet Taylor wearing a 80’s dress, 40’s kimono, 30’s bowler.

Olivia Munn from Iron Man 2,  came in wearing a vintage Halston dress with Chanel jewelry, and celebrity stylist Tara Swennen in a vintage YSL tux jacket.

All their garments were purchased at the What Goes Around Comes Around store.

Co-founder and Creative director Gerard Maione is wearing an 80 years old hat from Colorado, and “good old hippie” suede pants, he says::

-“ I admit there has been a wonderful first year, but I expect a better year!” It has been  ruff economy, and not everybody in town know we exist yet”.

“The trend has been black and heavy punk this last year, but now for spring we are heading for more color and a more bohemian style”.

“Just take a look at our store – you see a combination of Moroccan and American Indian field combination, of our spring 2010 collection”.

Fred Segal in West Hollywood is proud to present a newcomer among graphic t-shirt designers, Molly Crabapple.  Dirtee Hollywood Inc.have announced an exclusive collaboration with Molly for their 2010 calender, and a special designed graphic art t-shirt  for their Fred Segal store.

Molly Crabapple is originally a professionally graphic artist based in New York. She exhibit all around the world, and  has drawn for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal , Marvel Comics and Bloomberg Corporation. She says:

-“I started to work with Dirtee Hollywood in 2009, and I am so excited Dirtee Hollywood give me the opportunity to work for them.”

“This is my first fashionline like this, and the reason I wanted to do this project is because I wanted to do something detailed, victorian and sexy. She continues:-“Create something that plays with the way a t-shirt is on your body”.    “An other reason is to enhance the way a woman is built”.

Molly is the founder of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School, and her interest for art goes way back in the days, when she was working drawing in a Parisian bookstore.