Eli Russell Linnetz has written his first feature film and plans to start rolling cameras next winter.
“Because it takes place at the show,” said the California-based creative, who directs music videos and shoots photography in addition to his growing ERL fashion business. He described the film as a “comedy, but dramatic.”
Her fall collection, titled “Crash,” was cinematic as well as dramatic, a tongue-in-cheek tragedy involving a cast of high school characters who die in a car accident, prompting Linnetz to create some heavenly, dressier looks in white. . besides her usual cozy, worn-out casual clothes of hers.
“I'm always designing for these characters in my head,” he said, rattling off the punks, jocks, skaters, stoners and theater buffs who inhabited this season's narrative. “Focus on what it means to be an American teenager.”
His fashion history was established in 1997, but his baggy cargo pants, flared jeans, plaid shirts, striped sweaters, and zebra-print prom suits seemed vaguely and pleasantly retro, but not definitely marked by time.
It turns out that Linnetz wasn't so easy to pigeonhole in high school. She “she was on the wrestling team, but she was also in the choir, in school plays, and also in children's art. “I was always the guy who jumped between every group of friends,” she said, reflecting, “I was always more interested in other people than myself.”
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