It’s not like creating epic shapes doesn’t run in the family, so we don’t know why we were surprised to see Al Merrick’s daughter Heidi Merrick profiled in the LA Times as a fashion designer.
Her clothes have a California romantic quality in bright sherbet-colored satins and chiffons and are sold at Lisa Kline, Dari and Wendy Foster. And she makes more relaxed pieces too, such as the Nonnie caftan, which Merrick was wearing on a recent afternoon in her breezy Moroccan-style abode in Silver Lake. “I try and push the way I live into my clothes,” she says. “When I get dressed, I pay attention to what I want my silhouette to be, what I’m comfortable in, the pieces I gravitate to first. And then I get to my studio and note all those things down. It’s the same thing with surfboards: They are shaped from the thought, research and the time in the water my dad’s put in.”
Heidi’s designs probably aren’t going to win any WCT events, but they’re actually pretty smooth.
[Link: LA Times]
