Because time is far from on my side during Christmas, when Nina was born, I set my sights on Valentine’s Day. Each year for the last four, I rally Andy and galvanize Nina into being a part of whatever wild concept photographer Ramona Rosales and I dream up. […]
Posted in Children, Design, Family, Photography, UncategorizedArchive for the ‘Photography’ Category
La Vie En Rose Goes…7Hollywood
La Vie en Rose wasn’t always a blog. It started out in print many moons ago. So when I had the opportunity to see it in ink again and in a sumptuous glossy magazine that I can hold or download (on iTunes, of course!), I was game. […]
Posted in Fashion, Los Angeles, Media, Photography, StyleAlan Cumming Snaps!
I’ve always had a mad crush on Alan Cumming. Not in a way that I tune into The Good Wife, even if it is a lauded series that everyone tells me I should be watching. […]
Posted in Art, Fashion, Photography, StyleThe Eye Travels With Diana Vreeland
Some films have to be experienced by an over-sized silver screen, and certainly an over-sized personality such as Diana Vreeland requires a sprawling canvas. Thankfully, the co-director and producer behind the new documentary, “Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel,” managed to summon the verve and individuality of this legend in a visually lavish and inspiring 86 minutes that one could imagine would make its subject grin one of those signature Cheshire slashes of red lipstick. […]
Posted in Beauty, Cinema, Fashion, Film, Photography, StyleJenny Shimizu’s Haute Lips
Much has been made about the perfect red lipstick because much can be made with it. A red lipstick can swipe away the blues, to riff on something Pauline Trigere famously said. […]
Posted in Beauty, Fashion, Photography, StyleTo The Max For Mini Cooper
As the morning faithfully reaches 102 degrees in Palm Springs (making it the coolest of the week), we wrap up our three-day shoot for Mini Cooper Magazine, a publication with a global circulation of 375,000 and the incredible Tyler Brûlé-helmed agency, Winkreative, driving its new look. […]
Posted in Design, Film, Media, Photography, Style, Transportaion, Travel, Web/TechFinal Days of California Design
All good things must come to an end, and with the curtain set to drop this Sunday on LACMA’s milestone show “California Design, 1930–1965: “Living in a Modern Way,” we went for a farewell visit Tuesday night. […]
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Play Dirty: Crafting Community at Ace Palm Springs
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. […]
Posted in Art, Craft, Design, Food and Drink, Music, Photography, Sports, Style, TravelTechnicolor Dreams: A Night At The Saguaro Palm Springs
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. […]
Posted in Design, Food and Drink, Photography, Style, TravelMy Talk+Book Signing Friday, March 9 Downtown L.A.
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. […]
Posted in Books, Cinema, Costume, Current Affairs, Design, Film, Photography, StyleA+R Launches Marc Newson-Designed Pentax K-01 with Shoot+See Event
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. […]
Posted in Design, Film, Media, Photography, Style, Uncategorized, Web/TechGala Good Time with Peggy Moffitt, MOCA and Oodles of Rare Rudi Gernreichs
Picture Perfect: Gary Oldman and 100 Pals at Paul Smith
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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