Heatherette
Heatherette is a fashion label based in New York . The label is owned by the two designers Traver Rains and Richie Rich.
At the end of 1999, Rains and Rich started their collaboration by designing brightly colored T-shirts . Her t-shirt and leather collections quickly became an insider tip in New York's club scene. This is how the stylist Patricia Field became aware of Heatherette and had her design the “Carrie” T-shirt for the television series Sex and the City . The photographer David LaChapelle and numerous celebrities from the music and film scene also wear their designs. Her fans include Gwen Stefani , Pamela Anderson , Pink and Paris Hilton .
Many fashion magazines have published editorials on Heatherette over the past few years , including Vanity Fair , W , InStyle , ID and the Italian Vogue .
2005 seemed Traver Rains and Richie Rich also in an episode of MTV telecast Made with.
In 2007 they were the first non-European designers to design the fashion show as part of the Vienna Life Ball .
Origin of name
The name Heatherette is a combination of the first name Heather and the song Warm Leatherette from The Normal . Richie Rich said he was once "chased" by a girl named Heather, after which he and a friend called each other Heather for fun . So one evening in connection with the song Warm Leatherette (in this particular case in the version by Grace Jones ) the name Heatherette was born .
Individual evidence
Web links
- Presence of the designer duo on MySpace . (English)