Dai Le

Dai Le’s influences come from his native Vietnam, the street cultures of New York and Los Angeles in his adopted country. He was trained in interior design both in Vietnam and New York, leading to him creating large-scale trade-show displays for major companies such as LG

electronics.

In Los Angeles, he honed his skills as a craftsman, creating an all-black fashion

collection that WWD described as being born of “avant-garde wishes and bias-cut dreams” when shown at L.A. Fashion Week Fall 2013.

Out of that show he created a darkly romantic, commercial line of leather accessories. The pattern for each piece was made using a cutting technique he learned as a child in Vietnam to make paper decorations. And each accessory in the line is finished with the use of arduous, leather dying and softening regimens.

The result is pieces that are pliable, and create ever-changing patterns of

geometric forms as they freely move.