Sad but true: today is your final chance to catch Mattia Biagi's "Storm of Life," a stunning installation comprising of 1,300 black umbrellas opened in all the artist's fearless glory inside the historic Merchants Bank Building in downtown Los Angeles. […]
Archive for July, 2011
Tonight: My Booksigning for The Extraordinary Difference
Tonight, Tuesday, July 26, Mr. Fred Hayman and I will be signing copies of our new book, The Extraordinary Difference, at Neiman Marcus in Beverly Hills, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. […]
Lenny Kravitz, David LaChapelle Make the Call
It's always a kick spotting our design finds out in the world, and it was no less so receiving this image of Lenny Kravitz with a black POP! handset to ear as he walked the streets of NYC. […]
Ones to Watch: Artists Gordon Bowen, Bettina Hubby
From second-skin mash-ups in a downtown alley to the lyrical bronze totems installed in an Eagle Rock vault, there is much to love and covet from two of L.A.'s rising star artists, Bettina Hubby and Gordon Bowen, whose latest works made the drive out to see them worth every mile. […]
Posted in Art, Current Affairs, DesignA Last Gasp for Balenciaga
Better late than never. That was certainly the thinking when we set out after a long day in the store on Sunday evening for San Francisco, a six-hour drive north from home which ended the following morning on July 4 when we arrived inside the parking garage at the de Young Museum to catch the closing day of “Balenciaga and Spain."
It was well worth the impromptu road trip, as I'd hoped after receiving the sumptuous catalog on the show from our dear manager Rafael for my birthday in May. […]
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