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"  GENETIC has a strong eye for an It girl. Off of a recent campaign with on-the-rise Langley Fox, the brand&amp;#039;s founder, Ali Fatourechi, has tapped Liberty Ross to design a collaboration with the LA denim brand. Ross has made a swift return to the fashion world, literally walking back\u2014quite fiercely\u2014onto the scene on Alexander Wang&amp;#039;s Spring 2013 runway. So how did the model find her way to the realm of denim? &amp;quot;Ali and I met through a mutual, great girlfriend of ours and it was really just a very natural, organic process. I realized a few days later that he doesn&amp;#039;t just make jeans, but my favorite jeans.&amp;quot; I wanted to do something in Los Angeles design wise because I love the idea of being able to live in a city and work in a city\u2014not having to get on planes every night, she says. &amp;quot;I knew that denim was my thing\u2014I&amp;#039;m a real denim girl. So Ali and I became friends and one thing led to another and this is what we came up with.&amp;quot; Next came actually designing the line. Ross took a look back, to a childhood spent in gritty West London and an LA dreamland set in a roller rink. &amp;quot;I was born in England, but my family very soon moved Los Angeles with all my siblings\u2014there&amp;#039;s six of us. My mom and dad were quite free spirited, they basically said, &amp;quot;come on let&amp;#039;s go do the American dream.&amp;quot; And so they opened this really crazy iconic sort of nutty roller rink [Flipper&amp;#039;s Roller Boogie Palace] where everyone would come and play and jam.&amp;quot; Even the LA roller rink had a decidedly Brit vibe though: &amp;quot;My dad brought all the punk bands over from England and it was like a real moment in Los Angeles,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;I think now there&amp;#039;s a real comeback in disco,&amp;quot; Ross explains\u2014this found its way into a gold-and-black geometric print in the collection: &amp;quot;I wanted to find a print that kind of embodied that and made it feel bold and exciting.&amp;quot; While that print is all Studio 54 meets LA\u2014on skates\u2014the collection&amp;#039;s distressed dark grays, overall dresses and muted plaids recall Ross&amp;#039; first foray into modeling in the heart of the waif era in the &amp;#039;90s. &amp;quot;The plaid is more a reflection of my London days, modeling in the early &amp;#039;90s days of London grunge that I was so much a part of.&amp;quot; What holds it all together is a motif of gold hardware across the collection\u2014a little reminder that a bit of disco glamour is always appropriate. The collection hits Net-a-Porter exclusively on August 22, and after that Ross isn&amp;#039;t quite sure what&amp;#039;s next. Will there be another stroll down the Balenciaga catwalk? &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ll have to see,&amp;quot; she says,&amp;quot; I haven&amp;#039;t even thought about shows yet\u2014I&amp;#039;m just like giving birth to my first collection. But I think I&amp;#039;ll go to Paris.&amp;quot;  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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