Designer’s Low-Riders Are in the Fast Lane

How low would you go? For those who dare to wear this season’s trendy hip-huggers, designer Daniella Clarke created a line that is downright dangerous. “With these jeans on, no one misses you!” Clarke exclaims. “They you see you coming and they’ll crank their necks watching you go.”

Clarke, 30, who’s married to former Guns N’ Roses guitarist Gilby Clarke, launched her Frankie B. line this year, naming it after their 5-year-old daughter, Frankie Barry.

The petite former model said she started making the jeans for herself when she couldn’t find ones that fit.

“I would buy jeans that didn’t fit me right, go home, alter them and lower them. . . . People would always stop me and ask where I got my pants.”

Clarke said she was inspired not by what she was seeing in the fashion world, but by her memories of the ‘70s camp classic TV show “Charlie’s Angels,” which she started watching when she was 7.

In fact, she named her hip-huggers after characters on the show: “Charlies” are the ultra-low jeans; “Sabrinas” are an inch higher.

She’s also inspired by the world of rock. “I hang around it so much,” said Clarke, who lives in Studio City. “I’m also part hippie. I always think about what girls would have worn to Woodstock in the late ‘60s.”

She can already boast a celebrity clientele: Jennifer Lopez, Daryl Hannah, Pamela Anderson and Sarah Michelle Gellar own the jeans.

“People who wear these pretty much have to leave their modesty at home,” said Clarke, “you have to be a little bit daring.”

Frankie B. jeans, about $95, are available at Nordstrom, Sharon Segal (in Fred Segal, Santa Monica) and Traffic in the Beverly Center.