Sundown Salon #14: Showdown! - WOODEN MOUSTACHE

Showdown! will include Wooden Mustache's Spring 2005 line. Concepts and themes are derived from flags. In addition to being involved with the runway show, Wooden Mustache will present separate performance entitled 'Spinning', which incorporates flag spinners, models, a baton twirler, and a woodwind quartet. Wooden Mustache is a blend of boring and bold. The overall aesthetic and combination of details is meant to present its wearer as a conflicted, competent collection of intelligence, know-how, and wit. The pieces are often designed with an element of childhood simplicity or idiocy. When the wearer can recognize this soft self-inflicted mockery as healthy and smart, the juxtaposition set up suggests a sharp sense of self-assurance.

BIO: Chuck  Stolarek is a freelance designer and artist currently living in Los Angeles, CA. After graduating from Rhode Island School of Design in 2002 with a BFA in furniture design, he soon moved west to begin his career as a designer and musician. Aside from conceptual furniture and sculpture, Chuck enjoys painting, bingo, developing his clothing line Wooden Mustache, and composing and arranging for the wildly popular Beverly Hills Wind Trio Company. www.woodenmustache.com