‘Art’ Show Goes to Extremes

At Club Blue’s “Art of Fashion,” the choices were extreme: sweet young thangs in pastel-colored satins, streetwise style cats, ‘40s gangsters and dangerous divas wielding daggers.

The fashion show, at Costa Mesa’s Empire Ballroom, unfolded on the runway Friday with a range of male and female guises from DNA in Triangle Square, Costa Mesa, and accessories from Black Flys eye wear in Costa Mesa and Roadkill in Orange.

Roadkill’s tiny pompon and racer striped barrettes, available at Nordstrom stores, are a must-have for trendy gals.

DNA displayed jeans and Modish, ski-inspired suits from Diesel and short, short shifts, satin jeans and mutated preppy gear from Ton and Greed Girl. For him, there were leisure shirts from the ‘40s and ‘50s-- not the ‘70s--from BC Ethic and Kik Wear.

It was retro rehash, but, styled with fedoras, wingtips and waist chains, it was the freshest look to surface in a nightclub.

Glam designer Sandra Harvey closed the show with a seemingly endless procession of femmes fatales slinking, strutting and sashaying down the catwalk in dramatic dresses. The platinum finger wave ‘do of her oldest daughter, Candace Potts, fit Harvey’s collection, available at Harvey’s Costa Mesa signature boutique.

Contrasting Potts’ elegant look were a couple of models with long, uncontrollable locks who crawled on all fours in silk velvet leopard tubes, while another gave the cheering audience a few flamenco and belly dance moves in a body hugging skirt.