Feature Label: House of Bare Spring 2009

Posted 3 years, 9 months ago on August 28, 2008 by

houseofbare6 Feature Label: House of Bare Spring 2009House of Bare makes its debut this spring with a col­lec­tion avail­able exclu­sively at Wel­come Hunters.  Behind the label is Johnny Rodriguez.  Rodriguez is no stranger to the fash­ion indus­try, hav­ing worked as a designer for over five years.  Inter­est­ingly enough, up until this point, Rodriguez worked with wom­enswear earn­ing praise and acco­lades in media out­lets such as Woman’s Wear Daily, Paper, and Missbehave.

Accord­ing to Rodriguez, the excit­ing ven­ture into menswear was the “eas­i­est way of expand­ing [his own] per­sonal wardrobe.”  The idea of cre­at­ing a func­tion­ing brand, how­ever, came unex­pected.  House of Bare began as “a lit­tle inside joke.”  The name, House of Bare was thought up, and then “silly ideas” were tossed around, “and the next thing” Rodriguez knew, he was “mak­ing pat­terns, cut­ting, [and] sewing.”  The label’s first col­lec­tion encom­passes Rodriguez’s fash­ion tastes.

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Dis­cov­er­ing Rodriguez’s own per­sonal aes­thetic reveals quite a per­sonal col­lec­tion.  Rodriguez’s typ­i­cal every­day wear is “messy, over­sized, and sim­ple.”  This look trans­fers over to his col­lec­tion in which he plays “with shapes and proportions.”

Rodriguez likes “ill-​​fitted and awk­ward sil­hou­ettes” with a dash of skin for fun. His color of choice is heather gray, because “it’s an amaz­ing mod­ern day neu­tral [that] can be mixed with flu­o­res­cent high­lighter col­ors to black and any­thing in between.”

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House of Bare will be avail­able this com­ing spring at Los Ange­les fash­ion hot spot, Wel­come Hunters.  Ulti­mately, Rodriguez wants peo­ple to have fun with his col­lec­tion “and make it their own.”  He feels that his clothes “are sim­ple yet clever enough that any­one can incor­po­rate a piece into their exist­ing wardrobe with ease.  Fash­ion should be fun and not taken so seriously…it’s just clothes.”

GETTING TO KNOW JOHNNY

JOHNNY’S FAVORITE…

Design­ers: Hen­rik Vib­skov, Kim Jones, Eric Lebon, Acne, Bern­hard Will­helm, So Last Sea­son, and Alexan­dre Herchovitch

Web­sites: Face Hunters, Style Bub­ble, Lynn & Horst, Refinery29, Bored & Beautiful…and if course theFASHIONISTO!

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JOHNNY LAST…

Read the Japan­ese mag­a­zines POPEYE, and MEN’S NON+NO

Read the BUTT Book and Balen­ci­aga Paris

Watched the movie Crook­lyn

Lis­tened to the Uncanny Alliance CD “The Groove Won’t Bite” that has been on shuf­fle from ’94

Wore an over­sized white Daniel Palillo t-​​shirt from Wel­come Hunters, ripped black denim shorts, and white patent glad­i­a­tors from Top­man

Please visit the House of Bare blog for more pic­tures and information.

Pic­tures from House of Bare

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