Nut day. Consider this image of Sigrid Agren by Paolo Roversia as a kind of placeholder, like the lulling classical music played when you're on a hold on a call…pretty enough to enjoy, a respite from reality… […]
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Consider this an open invitation to my first talk/reading and booksigning this Thursday for Fred Hayman – The Extraordinary Difference: The Story of Rodeo Drive, Hollywood Glamour and the Showman Who Sold It All at the downtown campus of the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising. […]
If it weren't for my days in the store and the odd outing, I would live in either leggings and crazy shirt or small-sized men's pajamas.
Today was not one of those days. […]
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We want to hop a plane to Rio or Bangkok after reading Michael Kimmelman's story in Sunday's New York Times on the new show "Design With the Other 90 Percent: Cities."
Organized by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum but exhibiting in the United Nations visitors’ lobby, it focuses on projects worldwide turning slums into more humane, modern places to live. […]
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The question over what to masquerade in later this month was resolved with the mail today. A box arrived with a trio of handmade masks I'd recently ordered from Kalon Studios.
Saturday night is alright for fighting, Sir Elton once told us, and I'm certainly fighting the urge to close this laptop and head out to a late-night birthday bash for Gabriela Artigas somewhere in Hollywood at her sister Tere's place.
I met the striking Artigas siblings late one night, in what seems a zillion years ago, at Diamond Dogs, the too-fast-to-live, too-young-to-die nightclub at H'Wood in Hollywood, thrown by my pals Bryan Rabin and Kelly Cole. […]
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This weekend's inaugural Art Platform—Los Angeles, the city's entry in the modern and contemporary art fair circuit, offered the opportunity to see the work of new artists, catch up with pals who were exhibiting…and avail 14-month-old Nina with new stimulation to "ooh" at. […]
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I cringe at talk about the good ol' days, when folks go on about how their generation really rocked the establishment with their bold art and even bolder ways of having a sinfully outrageous time. […]
