In what’s becoming a growing movement in street fashion and art collaborations, on May 17, 2008, the 2^nd LABELLAB Exhibition took place at Crewest Gallery in downtown Los Angeles featuring live fashion art creations and installations by LABELLAB members’ Drifter, David and David, and Pretti Vacant Accessories, with a special screening of “Bomb It”—The Graffiti Documentary by Jon Reiss. The Exhibition was an exciting opportunity for emerging street fashion brands to depict their independent style through artistic interpretations in a unique gallery in downtown Los Angeles.

To start, Yoshi from Drifter along with graphic artist for the brand Daniel Cone created a mosaic mobile hanging from the ceiling made of colorful blue, red, off-white, purple, screenprints that shown like cathedral windows as the sun was setting over the city. The inspiration, according to Daniel and Yoshi, came from using their graphic T-shirt screenprints whereby light could shine through the images in the screens to create a different mood in the gallery and also showcase the artistry in Drifter’s brand designs.

Pretti Vacant accessories illustrated “The Good and the Bad” with two plexiglass landscapes depicting her jewelry in scenescapes that were good on top, and bad on the bottom, like heaven and hell. Her plexiglass pieces including boomboxes, turntables, multi-layered deer antlers, hearts, lightening bolts, and other icons of music and graffiti culture captured the attention of all who attended as the perused her incredible display and watched her montage projection of the craft of actually making each piece.

David and David took over the back alley area with their star T-shirt collection and live screen printing onsite which people could watch and purchase at the event. They also had local act, DJ Ray spinning on the turntables in-between sets by the up-and-coming duo, introduced to THELABELLAB by Michelle Ponce, the Miracle Dolls, Danny and Dezy, who performed an acoustic set of their songs throughout the night. The Miracle Dolls will also be playing the first 3 dates of the upcoming Vans Warped Tour.

And in a unique format, “Bomb It!”—The Graffiti Documentary by director Jon Reiss, featured a premiere of what’s to come June 6 at the opening of his film in LA with a screening on the ceiling of the gallery, which not only created a perfect backdrop and effect for the film, but had people looking up must of the night.

By teaming up with Crewest Gallery, one of the only galleries in Los Angeles dedicated to street and graffiti artists, THELABELLAB Exhibitions come with the necessary backdrop to showcase street fashion in completely refreshing dimensions. In last weekend’s show, THELABELLAB was backdropped with an incredible urban photo journalism exhibition curated by Vyal One featuring top images from graffiti and street artists taken from obscure locations based on what takes place within the landscapes of their urban canvases.

Hint water beverages supplied beverages and fans of fashion and art were able to buy on-site, one-of-a-kind creative pieces that each fashion artist made in a pop-up shop format.

For more information on THELABELLAB, go to www.thelabellab.com. Stay tuned for Label Networks TV interviews with the fashion artists from the show coming soon.