Archive for November, 2007
A Givenchy Skateboard?
Christmas Comes Early
It doesn’t get any better—or worse!—than this. Five of L.A.’s finest are emptying their coffers this weekend with massively slashed sales.
On Friday, the doors at Smashbox Studios open to the public for a Thomas Wylde clearance that benefits the Cedars-Sinai Women's Cancer Research Institute.
Weekend DYI with Kelly Wearstler
Gobsmacked: Anne Klein Disses Isabel Toledo
Just when you think the Great American Sportswear story is going to have a happy ending, the evil conglomerate rears its bottom line and stinks up the place. Or so that’s what it smelled like with the shocking news tonight that Anne Klein’s parent company Jones Apparel Group is cutting the designer collection and its creative director Isabel Toledo even before the second season could reach store shelves (which it’s not now).
[…]No Swan Song for La Serena
Picking up a crystal-covered riding crop always felt a bit less salacious knowing the shop proprietor was a woman. Call it reverse sexism, but for legions of fans of Agent Provocateur, the naughty knicker firm based in London, the founding couple helming the ship was just as much of the appeal as anything.
Feeling the Love
Dior’s Sweet 60
Project Runway’s Round 1: Rami Takes All
CONGRATS to Rami Kashou for scoring the first round on tonight's premiere episode of Project Runway. Not that there should've been any doubt. Too many of the results on tonight's first installment of the Bravo hit brought into question why some of these contestants even made it this far. […]
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Paper Mag’s Happy Ending
Pulp Fiction: Paper Mag’s L.A. Stories
Phyllis Diller, Jeremy Scott and an army of clubby kids channeling Michael Jackson in “Thriller”? It can only spell one thing: Paper Magazine has invaded L.A.
Paper’s Los Angeles Project 3.0, the annual rite for the New York-based style bible, kicks off Wednesday night with an art opening of legendary comedienne-cum-portraitist Phyllis Diller’s work (including this one of Paper ed Kim Hastreiter) hosted by Mena Suvari, followed by a dance party given by legendary Paris boutique Collette and L.A. […]
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Paper’s Los Angeles Project 3.0, the annual rite for the New York-based style bible, kicks off Wednesday night with an art opening of legendary comedienne-cum-portraitist Phyllis Diller’s work (including this one of Paper ed Kim Hastreiter) hosted by Mena Suvari, followed by a dance party given by legendary Paris boutique Collette and L.A. […]
All You Didn’t Know You Need to Know
How will you ever crunch every cultural tidbit you need to know to come off as chic as your pre-Anne Klein Isabel Toledo dress? Nancy MacDonell provides the Cliff Notes with her sophomore guide “In the Know: The Classic Guide to Being Cultured and Cool.”
What is great about this new pocket volume is that it doesn’t try to please everyone by offering the greatest hits of all time. […]
Ideal Citizen: Tobias Wong Rings Our Bell
Wonder Twin Powers have been activated with this uber-cool collaboration between CITIZEN:Citizen and Tobias Wong. Just 50 of the ccPhone are being made available–and at $2k a pop. Among the features is Wong's illicit twist on the Chanel logo (which has so far been featured only on matchbooks that we sell at A+R, along with Wong's Sunjars), CITIZEN:Citizen's picks of vids, music and their very own personal little black book in a v-card that will be updated twice yearly.
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