The Golden State - Stacia Fall 2011 Photo Shoot

It's a wrap! Another fun, successful day shooting the Stacia collection is complete. It was a long, hot day at Tapia Park in the Malibu Canyon photographing the Fall 2011 collection. After months of rain and chilly weather in LA, we finally saw the sun, and it was a scorcher. A beautiful day in the canyon and a perfect backdrop for my new Fall collection of bamboo space-dye knits inspired by, none other than, our beautiful Golden State.

We had a great, all-woman crew yesterday and we cranked it out (32 looks in all) in less than 6 hours. Our gorgeous Manhattan Beach-native model, Lauren James, was a real trooper. And of course, we couldn't have gotten all these great shots without our fabulous photographer, Erika Seress. Hair/makeup by Jacqueline, photographer's assistant, Kira, and my go-to gal, Amy (thank you!!) - a great crew of strong women!

Tapia Park was a serene location with unlimited scenery to shoot against - huge bolder rock formations, still-life distorted tree trunks, fields of golden brush, pebbly creek beds, and all set against the gorgeous Malibu Canyon mountains. We even saw a large skeleton body of an unknown animal by the creek (yikes!)

So here's a little teaser of what's to come from Stacia this July - the Quail stripe caftan in bamboo/cotton - one of my favorite new pieces from the collection.