A great plug for my second book and upcoming party in this week's The Hollywood Reporter. "Where the Young Turks Go To Drink," is a two-page feature by Alexis Johnson and Degen Penner spotlighting the new wave of hangouts caterting to the entertainment industry's rising power players. […]
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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. […]
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.
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. […]
Enchanting and engaging, this short film shot in Ecuador with a crop of beautiful young locals features Opening Ceremony's fall collection.
The prolific and imaginative Aaron Rose is behind the short, and along with sharing it via email this a.m. […]
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What's on Rem Koolhaas' book shelf? The 1984 edition of Cutting Hair the Vidal Sassoon Way, because, as the Dutch architect told the hairstyling legend himself earlier this week at the London Design Festival awards, “It has great shapes.”
A special lifetime achievement award was confered on our beautiful pal Vidal, there with wife Ronnie, and, per NYT design editor Pilar Viladas' coverage, he charmed the awards dinner crowd with stories of his love of architecture. […]
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To Ed Ruscha, "I Do" is "the world's greatest catch phrase." The artist's take on the institution of marriage is die-cut and imprinted on favor cards that make up the many incredible artist contributions to his friend Bettina Hubby's latest project, a provocative take on weddings. […]
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Ok, so Fashion's Night Out was a great pretense to initiate a thought-provoking installation in our window, mark the launch of six new collections and see old friends who drove all the way from the eastside to the westside. […]
Our Fearless Mistress of Good Times: Linlee Allen
As the last rays of hit the hilltop windows across Silver Lake reservoir, my thoughts drift to tonight’s action around the pool at The Standard Hollywood and cultural impresario Linlee Allen’s weekly exploits there. […]
This week I received a visit from Style Like U's Elisa Goodkind and her shutterbug associate, executive editor Ramona Canino for an upcoming showcase on yours truly. It will appear on the site that Elisa co-founded with her daughter Lily Mandelbaum, seen above during a recent celebration in New York for their inaugural book by the same name. […]
By now, you are well aware that the ravishing blockbuster Alexander McQueen exhibition, "Savage Beauty," at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York comes to an end this Sunday. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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