"Whatever makes me smile in the morning when I'm getting dressed"

is the best definition of what fashion should be that we've heard this week. And of course it comes from someone with half her head shaved: Brenna Wallace of Heatherette, who was being interviewed by the very camera-friendly Daniel Saynt of Fashionindie at the GenArt New Faces show afterparty, in one of MOLI's Fashion Week videos. Can we stuff enough boldface into this para? We're in a boldface mood, inspired by that boy Daniel, looking spiff in a nice dark jacket, dark polka-dotted shirt, and macho-eleganté dark tie. Supersuave! He can ad lib with a hip notable like nobody else. "She may not be Richie Rich," he started, introducing the half-shaved blond Brenna. When he asked her what her style was, that's when the gem came.

"And the hair?" he wanted to know for all of us.

"In my bathroom because I get bored," Wallace said. 

We should all be so bored.

Go back to makeup, Couric. This boy Daniel is the new himself. (We're also putting some of his Fashionindie posts in The MOLI View — thanks a happy heap, Daniel.) The designers he talked to are all bright, shiny, and promising. Then again, GenArt, around since the mid-'90s, has always celebrated promise and picked great horses to help run the race. He talked to Mooka Kinney's Rachel Antonoff and Allison Lewis, who already have four seasons with Barneys under their mid-twenties belts. They said their collection is very 1960s inspired, very "girl got caught smoking in the bathroom" — is that their impression of the '60s? Interesting. Maybe there's a great story by someone's mother in that reference ...

Saynt talked to A-Z's Dana Lee, looking adorable in all black and '70s B-movie star/math-nerd-looking eyeglasses. Lee said she was inspired by "everyday ubiquities" in the menswear she designs. Hopefully her designs will be as ubiquitous as her inspirations.

Then he went into the elevator to talk to Justin from Semiprecious Weapons because the band was so loud. So was Justin's adorable eye makeup. Very Edie Sedgwick meets Siouxsie Sioux. Justin has a jewelry line called Fetti. He proudly showed off a piece to Daniel, not the camera, but we don't care. We'll look for Fetti too. Is it related to pasta, or to confetti? Or something entirely different? Who knows? Who cares! We're happy to get up in the morning again. What a great antidote to the grand überscheme of Ralph Lauren.

Jana Martin is The MOLI View's contributing editor for Fashion & Design.

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