LOS ANGELES — It started with a job to shoot for Junk Food Clothing’s fall 2018 look book that landed model and photographer Gabbriette Bechtel a limited-edition capsule with the local T-shirt brand.
Junk Food tapped the multihyphenate creative, who has modeled for Rihanna’s Savage x Fenty line and had her work appear in V magazine and vogue.com, for the nine-piece capsule. The collection is to be celebrated on Thursday ahead of its Oct. 8 launch on Junk Food’s online shop as well as Tees + Jeans, the experiential retail space on Abbot Kinney it opened in partnership with Levi’s.
The collection consists of bodysuits, print tops and accessories bearing a cheetah print, some of Bechtel’s photography used as graphics on T-shirts and even a few of her tattoos embroidered as overlays on some of the pieces.
“I pretty much live in T-shirts and sweaters and pullovers, just cozy things I can wear every day,” Bechtel said of the starting point for the capsule’s direction. “The inspiration is pulled from my own closet. I collect vintage and so I used favorite pieces from my closet like cheetah. I look for rare cheetah pieces when I go shopping so we re-created that.…We also drew
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