While most of the obits summarized the historical and cultural impact of hair icon Vidal Sassoon, who died Wednesday at his Mullholland home, Los Angeles Times Fashion Critic Booth Moore decided to provide a glimpse in Sunday’s “Image” section on his role in the city he made his home. […]
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With influential style makers such as jewelry designer Annie Costello Brown, textile designer Rachel Craven and footwear designer Beatrice Valenzuela, the Echo Park Craft Fair is not your usual neighborhood craft fair. […]
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As a result of a call today from the studio of interior designer Suzan Fellman to A+R, while sneaking a peak at her site I happened upon these gorgeous wallpaper and textile offerings based on the work of the multi-threat creative genius Cecil Beaton. […]
Posted in Design, Fashion, Interior Design
We’ve been on the road and in the air since April 4, covering thousands of miles to reach Edinburgh (holiday in a castle), London (friends and design), Milan (design+furniture fair) and finally Palm Springs (A+R Toy Lab at the Crafting Community). […]
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Forget Coachella. There in the desert, unleashed, raw imagination is at the core of an upcoming gathering lead by renown artists Karen Kimmel, Tanya Aguiñiga, Cathy Callahan of Cathy of California fame, bag designer Clare Vivier and teeming with underwater photography, skateboarding, sneaker customization and smores. […]
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Regrets, I’ve had a few…Truth be told, they are very few since I find it counterproductive living life that way. But one regret I cannot shake is recently lingering in Nashville and skipping out on the opening festivities in San Francisco for the Jean Paul Gaultier retrospective at the de Young Museum. […]
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A rose needs 81 hours to grow and thrive. A factoid that I was not aware of regarding my namesake flower. But this bit of horticultural insight inspired the premise of the new short “81 Hours In One Suitcase” directed by pals Aaron Rose and produced Apple Via for the brand 81 hours. […]
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It is always a wee punishing stepping into Mona Moore and not go into rapture. The boutique, with its spinning mirrored disco ball and neon pink silhouette of a woman’s midsection, is filled with the kind of shoes, bags and baubles that belong on a lit Lucite pedestal. […]
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The brisket was delectable and the iced Tecate like gold dust at a jam-packed reception marking the six-week showcase of the mighty talents of Marfa at the Heath flagship in Los Angeles. […]
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Joey Grana of Scout and Richard Wainwright of NEW/FOUND are back this Saturday evening and all day Sunday with their wonderful vintage marketplace, A Current Affair, in the penthouse of downtown’s Cooper Design Space. […]
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To get my beauty sleep for tomorrow’s book signing at the Palm Desert International Fragrance & Flower Festival, the organizers checked me into the new Saguaro Palm Springs tonight.
The twelve-hued rainbow of paint that colors the place inside and out still seems fresh from the room doors to the dressers to the patio walls. […]
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Folks, I’ll be giving a talk on Hollywood and L.A. Style, the dawn of Rodeo Drive, indie boutiques and the indie beauty industry and the role Mr. Fred Hayman played in all of it tomorrow, Friday, March 9, from 11-noon at the downtown campus of Otis School College of Art and Design. […]
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We love any excuse to celebrate. Being selected as the first design retailer outside of Paris to debut the innovative Pentax K-01 hybrid digital camera by industrial design star Marc Newson is reason enough to toot our party horns. […]
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Life is good for Gary Oldman. As he charms his way through interviews and parties in L.A. this week in the run up to hearing his name announced in the best actor category at this Sunday’s 84th Academy Awards, he also marked the opening of his collaborative photography exhibition with lensman Jack English Thursday night at the Paul Smith flagship on Melrose Avenue. […]
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…being able to get silly every Valentine’s Day with talented pals such as photographer Ramona Rosales and Nina’s dear “uncles” Joseph Brooks and Garry George, who returned from India with this fab frock which immediately served as the inspiration for this year’s theme. […]
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Juan Carlos Obando has to be greeting this morning with a major smile on his beautiful mug.
The reviews from his Fall 2012 presentation yesterday at the Lehmann Maupin gallery in New York are as vibrant as the palette coloring the effortlessly fluid dresses he showed. […]
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No one can describe me as having a green thumb. More often than not, I massacre plants. But in an effort to meet one of my 2012 resolutions, I spent some time Sunday planting thyme, Italian parsley and oregano plants we picked up at the Hollywood Farmer's Market that morning. […]
Join us today in celebrating J.C. Obando's first trunk show at Barneys New York at the Wilshire Boulevard door in Beverly Hills, from noon to 3 p.m. The talented J.C. […]
Andy got back a week ago from a whirlwind trip to Paris to scour the Maison et Objet for new products for A+R.
The upshot? There was plenty of design, but only a select few pieces made the A+R cut. […]
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