Meet LPA, the Celeb-Approved Line Fashion Girls Will Obsess Over

Do you remember back in June when Emily Ratajkowski wore a floral choker dress on Instagram and fashion girls went nuts?

Lara Pia Arrobio was the brains behind that stunning dress, and is also BFFs with Emily. And today is the long-awaited debut of her label, LPA.

Arrobio, who hails from Pasadena, Calif., is a former Parsons School of Design graduate. She’s held a variety of jobs, including producer, casting director, blogger, photographer, and a brief stint at Kelly Cutrone’s People’s Revolution (the fashion publicity firm that famously employed Lauren Conrad and Whitney Port on The Hills). More recently, Arrobio was a designer at Reformation for five years, where her designs contributed to the success of the cult brand among fashionistas.

When Arrobio left Reformation, she was set to embark on a new job as a designer for Zara in Spain, but she was brought back to the States when a chance to design her very own line came her way through a partnership with Revolve.

“I wanted to move to Europe and have that experience, but the end game has always [been to have] a creative director title, so I couldn’t say no. Also, the Revolve family is a group of wonderful, supportive [people] that I wanted to be around,” Arrobio told Yahoo Style.

The collection is full of opposites: pieces that feel feminine, yet masculine; edgy, yet beautiful; grungy, yet glamorous. That’s what makes the collection so alluring.

Arrobio said the inspiration for the collection was “Dolce & Gabbana meets Supreme.” There’s a sweatshirt with a graphic flame motif on the hood and sleeves that conjures up Supreme’s sporty-street, cool-girl attitude. 

Another favorite from the collection is a supple, floral-embroidered leather jacket with silver stud details that reminds us of Alessandro Michele’s modern-day Gucci girl.

The brand is filled with Courrèges-style ribbed knits, miniskirts, Saint Laurent-inspired furry jackets, and silky, floor-length dresses decorated in flowers that are very Dolce & Gabbana.

The collection has high-fashion appeal, but all the pieces have a Lara Pia Arrobio twist, and for the most part, do not come with a designer price tag.

“The vision is just my aesthetic. I didn’t have to think about it that much,” says Arrobio, who adds that it “has all been in my head for a long time. It felt like a release getting it out and now, I can’t stop working and creating.”

The prices of the ready-to-wear collection range from $58 to $1,300, and will be available at lpathelabel.com and revolve.com today, and fwrd.com in October. It doesn’t stop there. Arrobio has plans to expand into swimwear, accessories and footwear.

It may seem as if it was written in the stars for Arrobio to become a fashion designer, but what would she do if she wasn’t designing clothes? Her answer: “I [would] want to have kids and live on a farm and make wine.”

Click ahead to see our favorite LPA pieces, and then head on over to the site to see the collection in its entirety.

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