The above images by Skye Parrott are featured in Dossier’s 3rd Issue. Now on sale.
Last week, I spent an engaging evening at Space 15 Twenty in Hollywood. The occasion was the highly anticipated presentation of Mirror/Dash: the fashion love child of Kim Gordon and Urban Outfitters, which is aptly named after Gordon’s musical side project with her husband, Thurston Moore.
Gordon’s taste charges the space. Mirror/Dash—the line—is simple and summer-y, with contemporary and classic pieces in shades of raspberry, gray and black. One striped tank top pays homage to X-Girl (the fashion line Gordon pioneered with Daisy von Furth back in the early ’90s), and her infamous silver streamers line the walls and windows. Gold and purple glitter is strewn beneath the racks while a Dan Graham-esque hut is filled with sparkly pillows and vintage dresses. Ecstatic Peace CDs, cassette tapes, records and rewired vintage electronics are on display in the back corner of the room.
Happily, there is a table with Martin (aka Anne Albert) jeans and army-like bags and jackets; it’s exciting to see the line back in action. Martin was a neighbor to the first Daryl K store on East 6th Street in New York, which brings me to the rack of Gordon’s Daryl K vintage collection. Fantastic. It is perfectly edited—and all sales proceeds go to Community Resources for People With Autism.
The selection of carefully chosen reading material comprises a variety of intellectual and popular culture, including: Helene Cixous’ White Ink; António Lobo Antunes’ What Can I Do When Everything’s On Fire?; Livability by Jon Raymond; Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2005 by Alice Notely; books on sound art, Patti Smith, New York’s Downtown Literary Scene; and of course the new issue of Dossier, which features an interview with Gordon.
All in all, the pop-up shop (open through the end of April) is the perfect meeting point for L.A.’s fashion, art and music mavens.
Click “Read More” to see an interview with Gordon and the other Mirror/Dash designers.
