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It's 9am in Los Angeles and J Brand’s Scotland-born, Zimbabwe-raised Creative Director Donald Oliver is already hours into his day. “This is actually quite late for me,” he laughs, coffee in hand, attempting to combat lingering jetlag from a recent “aggressively” paced trip to Europe for the Premier Vision fabric fair. “I come in and start my day because I find it easier to think when it’s quieter … To start creatively first,” he explains, talking down the Skype lens.Having previously lived in London and New York for different design periods of his life, it’s been two and a half years since  J Brand’s Founder and CEO Jeff Rudes lured him to sunny California. “I think it probably is an L.A. thing,” he laughs, referring to his power mornings that often now include a beach run. “In New York I guess I rolled into the office about 10am. There, we used to work ‘til like 12, 1 in the morning,” he recalls of his time split between Calvin Klein, The Gap, DKNY and Vera Wang, in the city of 24-hour nail bars and laundromats.Behind the 47-year-old’s desk, digital design drawings, portraits of effortlessly beautiful women and fabric samples are pinned to a latticework of notice boards. “We should have blinkers on you,” he jokes, putting on his own black-framed spectacles, “so you can’t see our inspiration boards for next fall.”This morning, I’ve introduced J Brand to Skype. And given the fact that the company is entirely open plan – creative director and all – I’m starting Friday with the rest of the team as they bustle into the design room that’s set against the building’s 1930s raw brick façade. “Casual Fridays last from Monday until Friday here,” Oliver smiles, bucking the trend with a cardigan and tailored Rick Owens pants. “Living in the L.A. lifestyle and the weather, there’s an ease to how we take that inspiration and use it,” he says of the J Brand aesthetic. “Through osmosis what happens is that the collection becomes very casual. No matter what you’re designing there’s a casualness to it, which I didn’t really realise was happening until we had gone through a few seasons, and I was like ‘Oh my, things are very easy!’ And that’s sort of the process of how L.A. influences the design team.”And he’s clearly enjoying the new perspective: “I live on the beach just off Venice,” he says, still entranced by his ocean view. “I see the waves crashing every morning and that’s something that I’d never had in Zimbabwe growing up. It is a land-locked country, so I did not see the ocean until I was 19. Living on it is a really special part. I miss the pace and the rat race of New York and London, the bars and energy, but I’ve never compared L.A. to New York or London, being in L.A. is just different.”In spite of the recent spotlight thrown on the city thanks to Hedi Slimane’s Saint Laurent studio switch, for brands like Rodarte, Band of Outsiders and The Elder Statesman, Los Angeles has long had a thriving fashion scene. “I’ve always thought of it as a creative culture. Saint Laurent moving is part of the process: the idea of having a city gel with a surfing culture all mashed up into one point of view. I think the whole boho chic idea of L.A. has never really gone away, just in and out of trend.”Denim, on the other hand, has always been a Los Angelian essential. “What’s so amazing about Jeff and the vision that he had when he started the company was that he wanted to create something that was amiss,” he explains. “The dark skinny jean with no top stitching was a new, sophisticated approach to denim when you think about the current trend of the jeans market in 2004 – it was all about top stitching, the back pocket design, the logo positioning.”He smiles, “A lot of people paid a lot of attention … I mean I worked in some of those companies.

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