L.A. Fashion Week Issue • bohemian society’s victor wilde • fashion can be dangerous ® SEPTEMBER 21-27, 2018 / VOL. 40 / NO. 44 / LAWEEKLY.COM CORINNE FRANCO’S FETISH BARKER HANGAR GENERAL ADMISSION: OPENING NIGHT PREMIERE PARTY: Friday, September 28, 2018 • 2–10 PM Thursday, September 27th, 2018 • 6–10 PM FOR FASHION LOS ANGELES, 2018 Saturday, September 29, 2018 • 11 AM–10 PM Special Collector Preview Sunday, September 30, 2018 • 11 AM–5 PM and Charity Event TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW: www.popartphotoshow.com Venus Prototype’s bizarre couture brought underground fashion to the mainstream BY LINA LECARO FEATURING THE WORKS OF NEIL ZLOZOWER, MIKE SHINODA, TAZ (AKA JIM EVANS), STEPHEN STICKLER, DENNIS MORRIS AND MANY MORE… L.A. Fashion Week Issue • bohemian society’s victor wilde • fashion can be dangerous ® SEPTEMBER 21-27, 2018 / VOL. 40 / NO. 44 / LAWEEKLY.COM CORINNE FRANCO’S FETISH FOR FASHION Venus Prototype’s bizarre couture brought underground fashion to the mainstream BY LINA LECARO 2 WWW.LAWEEKLY.COM | S - , | LA WEEKLY 3 LA WEEKLY | S - , | WWW. LAWEEKLY.COM 4 L september 21-27, 2018 // Vol. 40 // No. 44 // laweekly.com LA WEEKLY LA Contents 11 You’re Invited to the | S - , You’re Invited to the PACIFICA Saturday OPEN HOUSE October 6ʰ In Beautiful Santa Barbara, California Join us for a One-Day Introduction to The Archetypal Pacifica’s graduate degree programs in Pan in America: WWW.LAWEEKLY.COM WWW.LAWEEKLY.COM Depth Psychology and Mythological Hypermasculinity Studies. 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LA Weekly_Ad_AUG-2018.indd 1 8/2/2018 4:47:59 PM Dual Perspective at Highways 6 Performance Space: See Friday. LA WEEKLY LA GO PHOTO BY E. MONCADA | S - , a bit of a turn back toward video art, with in there. But the downtown transportation blocks and local niche businesses has long a rare screening of artist Martine Syms’ hub’s ticket concourse should be a ne attracted an eclectic and eccentric mix of Incense Sweaters & Ice. Syms’ work at the setting for the nonstop clanging bells and industrial and creative characters. Every intersection of cinema vérité, social media, other metallic noisemaking that will occur two years, they stage an increasingly epic cultural critique and installation art has at Retrocade Experience, a two-day cele- Frogtown Artwalk, in which the public been hailed at galleries and museums, but bration that features more than 40 vintage is invited to discover the fun side of Frog- this short feature comes closer to a famil- pinball and arcade games such as Donkey town at dozens of pop-up galleries, artist iar movie structure, following two main Kong and Pac-Man. In addition to a daily studios, musical performances and art in- WWW.LAWEEKLY.COM WWW.LAWEEKLY.COM characters through a Slacker-like series of Pac-Man tournament, players can rest stallations along the river. Something like vignettes that both tell and muddle their their ngers and wrists between games in 50 visual artists and makers will stage in- story. e Underground Museum, 3508 W. the Arcade Lounge. 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