BC Fashion Week: Dussault Apparel S/S 2009

Deuce will likely be the most interesting show at BC Fashion Week.  Jason Dussault has branched his dynamic label into many avenues, forging a successful design career with numerous celebrity partners and clients.  Last year he partnered up with Gene Simmons to co-produce the Moneybags line, and he's dressed oodles upon oodles of other famous people.  He couldn't be at the fashion show today because he got "hung up" in LA with Kid Rock, Criss Angel and Gene Simmons.  Oh, the rock star life.

This was only partially a fashion show - the other portion was a deranged theatrical fantasy pulled straight out of a David Lynch movie.  The girls were tied up in ropes or handcuffs and wearing only t-shirts, stumbling around the runway to the tune of Blue Velvet as though they had just been freed from some carnal dungeon but were trying to find their way back. 

The men were tattooed and looked as though they had been scrapping all night and still ready for more.  As they walked down the runway they glared at the audience, making eye contact and acting all tough and alluring.  This guy had a piece of rope in his hand and was looking for a damsel to tie up:

To be honest I'm not into the Dussault style, but nobody can protest the extreme detail and attention that goes into the pieces.  Trashed Denim sees Dussault hand paint, sew, dye and wash (13 times for luck) his denim in Canada.

Then he's got Trashed T, which are perpetually crinkled cotton tees.  And the Vanity Project "celebrates man's instinctual right of passage to dominate his prey - and look good while doing it," with bamboo shirts designed by Dussault's friend "Nipper Mulberry."  Who knows what else Dussault will cook up next, if it's not collaborating with a celebrity or designer perhaps he will explore a new theme.

Dussault Apparel aims to "take down the pretentious veil that so many design companies hide behind [and] create a brand that's based on gritty reality rather than the unattainable fantasy land painted in the media and littered along most runways."  Um, mission accomplished.

The show also featured jewelry by Bloodline and boots by Dayton.