What do you wear to a fashion-flavored garden-party gala? Florals of course -- and since the event included looks from Valentino’s fall 2017 main collection on mannequins posed throughout the gardens, there was plenty from the house on hand too.
Fashion in full bloom at Lotusland’s ‘Avant Garden’ gala
An inhabitant of the cactus garden blooms as if on cue for the annual Lotusland fundraiser in Montecito, Calif.
(Adam Tschorn / Los Angeles Times) By Adam Tschorn
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Senior features writer Adam Tschorn is a former small-town newspaper editor, game-show question-and-answer man and fashion scribe who joined the Los Angeles Times in 2007. He currently covers a wide range of pop-culture topics with a focus on cannabis culture. Holding a B.A. in philosophy and an M.A. in journalism, he feels perfectly suited to looking at things, asking “why?” and writing down the answers.