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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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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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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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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Friendship is a gift. There were gifts aplenty Sunday night in honor of Bryan Rabin, whose latest milestone is a reminder to all of us how long we’ve been connected and, in most cases, due to the many good times orchestrated by the thin, white duke himself. […]
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Friends at Harper’s Bazaar had their skates on this morning. On the heels of Michel Hazanavicius beating Martin Scorcese at last night’s Academy Awards for Best Director bragging rights for his equally praised “The Artist,” which took the ceremony’s top honor as Best Film of the year, the magazine unveiled just minutes ago a portfolio appearing in the April issue inspired by the film and created in collaboration with Michel. […]
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Part of the pleasure of a road trip is the discovery of delicious places to fill our bellies. On our somewhat-spontaneous adventure to San Francisco this last week (to catch the final hours of the SFMoMa show on elderly design icon Dieter Rams, and, across town, the first days of the nascent star Miss Nora Woods) , we found such a place for lunch after our first night out, in wine country Paso Robles. […]
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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. […]
Tea time just got better. Andy just sent word through A+R that the stunning glass Teapot with Diffuser by Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen and Kasper Rønn of Norm Architects and Design Studio for Danish brand Menu has dropped in price from $80 to $60! […]
By now, it should be no surprise, that if the inimitable Pink Martini is playing in Los Angeles or New York or even now Paris (more on that later), among the shifting ensemble of guest musicians and singers is one performer on the triangle who has become a near-regular: the equally inimitable Queen Bee of Pop (Counter) Culture and co-founder of Paper Magazine, Kim Hastreiter. […]
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In spite of a career as journalist-curator-retailer based on endlessly ferreting the Next Big Thing, I've had an equally consuming passion for the past. What people wore and surrounded themselves in served as a intuitive mnemonic system for me to recall my school history lessons, thanks in large part to growing up with a mother who frequented dusty antique shops and garage sales and filled our family suburban home with stuff a century-plus years old. […]
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Malcolm Maclaren could very well be turning in his grave. Then again, the grand poobah punk provocateur might find the sight of pint-sized schoolchildren clad in skinny tartan bondage pants hooked with pleated half skirts and multi-buckled boots courtesy of a mass retailer utterly subversive. […]
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Nearly 24 hours after we christened the new Caulfield's in Beverly Hills with a party officially launching The Extraordinary Difference, and I'm still too shattered to do a proper posting on the night. […]
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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. […]
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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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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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. […]
In case you've been lounging under a rock these days, you already know tonight is Fashion's Night Out—worldwide.On Abbot Kinney in Venice, A+R is celebrating with the U.S. debut the revolutionary Mutewatch from Stockholm, the John’s Phone from Amsterdam and Airbag Craftworks from Frankfurt. […]
Keep Shopping. Everything Is Fine.
Or so Anna Wintour, politicians and a kazillion retailers around the world keep proclaiming with this week's latest installment of Fashion's Night Out. Now, I'm not going to get all Cathy Horyn on you, Dear Readers, and claim that the annual event started in 2009 to get folks back into stores and spending their hard-earned cash no longer has its purpose. […]
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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. […]
It's always a pleasure when one of the designers we feature in A+R gives us a surprise shout-out. That was the case in today's New York Times "Shopping" feature on dish racks as selected by Richard Joseph, half of the Brit brother team Joseph Joseph, one of our top lines in store. […]
I'm absolutely mad for cork. Whenever I see a piece of industrial or fashion design made from the stuff, I swoon.
Turns out a woman in the cork oak-growing region of Gallura in Italy is similary smitten for the stuff. […]
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