Frankie B. Jeans & Genes

Frankie B. designer Daniella Clarke was inspired by her "love affair with music" for her latest collection, not too surprising considering she married a musician— Gilby Clarke a former Guns-n-Roser. So what does a "love affair with music" look like? Smudgey morning after a night on a tour bus eye makeup, toussled hair, and of course, jeans. Sparkly jeans (glitter and metallic laced denim) skinny jeans, flared leg jeans, cropped jeans, jean shorts, and more jeans. Nothing too ground breaking here, except for a couple of bell bottom low waisted jeans, which I thought we all agreed were currently out of style. The most interesting trend this season was seen here too— high waisted jeans. That's right ladies pull up your pants, the high waist is coming back (think Falcon Crest, Sergio Valenti, and Jordache, not soccer mommy jeans). But Daniella also designed a special pair of britches, called HER2 jeans named after a specific form of breast cancer that one in four women afflicted with the illness get. The HER2 gene leads to rapid growth of the cancer and few women go into remission once the gene kicks in. Daniella created this line for the Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization so that women could learn about the recently discovered HER2 gene. The jeans are a dark denim, straight leg with pink seams and pink pocket details. At the end of the Frankie B. show breast cancer survivors walked arm in arm down the runway with models.

Kind of made me not want to go chase Gilby Clarke or Taryn Manning down for a photo, you understand, right?

Posted by Linda Immediato

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