We've always had a mad crush on L.A. Eyeworks and the visionary crew behind the brand. That whole "visionary" thing is no pun either–they really fit the bill as one of the few fashion-related brands with a truly design perspective.
On my adventures last night (which I will get to posting some time today!), Cameron Silver snapped this pic of us. We'd been chatting about how much we adore Dita Von Teese's manager, Melissa Dishell, and were suddenly inspired to send her a snapshot via Mr.
A+R Venice neighbors Christopher Glancy and Jay "the Jeweler" LeCompte walked into the shop last fall and immediately had us hooked…on their carefully crafted, weighty sterling castings of pharmaceutical pills, bottle caps, cigarette butts and flies.
Even though they won't be available until April, The New York Times is first out the gate (or in the house?) today with its feature on Seletti's Palace Stacking Porcelain Tableware.
Crochet beignets and seafood gumbo? Not as tempting to the taste buds as the real McCoy, but a tickle to the senses, nonetheless.
Food artist Clare Crespo laid out a Mardi Gras feast of King cake, ham, soft shell crab, purl'd, ehem, oysters, cafe au lait, and more, all carefully crocheted and served up on Heath dinnerware, apropos given most comforting of food celebrations is now on view at the Heath Los Angeles flagship.
One individual's collection can mean so little or so much to another, and in the case of the late avant-garde fashion collector Marcia Berger, the more than 1,500 pieces she passionately accrued from Maison Martin Margiela since his start in 1989 is nothing short of a Holy Grail to acolytes of the Antwerp designer.
File under Small World: On opening my mail today after three weeks away, I see there's a show at none other than Fahey/Klein here in L.A. for Ruven Afanador, the hotshot sharpshooter I recently spent a Saturday in a Paris studio with as he photographed Dita Von Teese.
Gone are the days of “every man for himself," drives the overarching theme of "Cohabitation," the forecast for 2010-2011 offered at the recent Maison&Objet design and furniture expo in Paris.
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Pal Pleasant Gehman just sent a reminder for the Hollywood premiere screening tomorrow night, Wednesday Feb. 3, of Stuck!, the camp redux of a 1950s, bad broads-behind-bars B-movie.
