Canadian designer Jeremy Laing hosts a trunk show at Zainab
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Jeremy Laing, the Canadian designer who trained under Alexander McQueen, hosted a trunk show at the Zainab boutique on Thursday night, featuring pieces from his spring and fall 2010 collections.
The 30-year-old Toronto resident had already planned to be in town for the Coachella festival when boutique owner Zainab Sumu asked him to show at her store.
‘I like that L.A. has multiple nuclei,’ noted the bespectacled Laing, who stayed at the Avalon Hotel and hit up the Getty Museum before leaving town Friday morning. ‘And I love the weather ... though strangely it’s warmer in Toronto right now.’
Laing’s stunning silk-heavy collections marry bold shapes -- think waist-length, strong-shouldered jackets -- with major fluidity, in the form of clever drapery and tailoring (one draped shirt boasted side sections of fabric that dropped nearly to the knee). The overall impact is edgy, but never forced. ‘There are a lot of easy things,’ said Laing while showing the collection. ‘Things you can just throw on.’
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