Archive for the ‘Style’ Category
True Love: Courtney Love
Qualifiers such as eccentric, original, even icon get bandied about these days like so many gold stars at a Silver Lake school event: every one is special!.. Um, not any more than your mom is an eccentric original…
One who can claim a crown of gold stars is Courtney Love. […]
Posted in Fashion, Music, StyleRed Carpet Ready with Gregory Arlt
Gregory Arlt gives good face. He’s the only professional our bosom buddy Dita Von Teese embraces on set when she relinquishes doing her make-up herself. And as Director of Makeup Artistry for MAC Cosmetics, he relentlessly tours the world making his mark on editorial shoots, for runway shows and other showcases for the international beauty brand. […]
Posted in Beauty, Event, Fashion, StyleThe Unstoppable Carine Roitfeld
The best part of doing a feature on Carine Roitfeld? Her rapid-fire thank-you, which came with all the enthusiastic effervescence one expects from this spitfire in stilettos. The following story appeared in the Winter 2013-2014 issue of 7Hollywood Magazine, which featured no fewer than seven covers, including Karl Lagerfeld, Courtney Love, Laetitia Costa, Irina Shayk, Jared Leto, Dakota Fanning—and Carine, as seen as the start of the slide show. […]
Posted in Fashion, Film, Media, StyleHollywood After Dark: Giorgio’s
Given the day, I thought I’d share my “La Vie En Rose” column on Giorgio’s, the Saturday night fever at Mmhmm Bar at The Standard Hotel on Sunset. The weekly bash has taken hold of Hollywood—both the city and its shakers and squatters—in a way that’s spilled over into other parts of the culture (just look at the disco-flavored fashions on the recent runways). […]
Posted in Current Affairs, Event, Fashion, Music, Nightlife, StyleLa 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, StyleLife Is As You Write It
On the final hours of 2012, that annual tradition of reflecting on another year in life gets underway. As we have always done individually and together, Andy and I strove to do it to the hilt. […]
Posted in Current Affairs, Family, StyleJust Sparkle
Garbo, Dita and Yours Truly: Join Us Tonight
From hair brushes to jeweled shoe clips to a metal four-drawer filing cabinet, some 849 things that once filled the home and life of Greta Garbo are going on the auction block this week courtesy of her family members in charge of her estate and all in the name of funding future art. […]
Posted in Cinema, StyleMust Watch: Celia Cruz in Zaire
As I tickled my laptop keyboard prepping the morning A+R newsletter with Andy, in the other room, Nina and I caught parts of Soul Power, the engrossing 2008 documentary on the three-day music celebration known as “Zaire 74.”
The concerts brought together some 80,000 fans to experience live African and African-American artists as seemingly disparate as Bill Withers and Miriam Makeba in the name of Black Power and, more specifically, the re-match between Muhammed Ali and George Foreman, billed as the “Rumble in the Jungle.”
Every one of the performances—both on and off the stage—are a captivating testament to the power of culture. […]
Posted in Film, Music, Performance, StyleDinner and Launch with Juan Carlos Obando
It’s My Bag: Supping With Ali Larter, Pals and the Spirit of Devi Kroell
A Hunger For Noir Wave
As one scary flick after another is tapped on this Hallow’s Eve among those settling in for this fright night, I’m reminded by pal Ann Magnuson of her turn in one of the sexiest and chicest looking (if not, let’s face it, bordering on camp at times) films, 1983’s The Hunger. […]
Posted in Cinema, Costume, Fashion, Film, Sex, 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, StyleTurning Japanese: IO Echo
You’re Invited
At the nexus of this week’s whirlwind is the grand opening of our new outpost of A+R. A storefront twice the size of our Abbot Kinney location, this one is located at 171 S. […]
Posted in Design, Event, Interior Design, Los Angeles, StyleOn Tap Saturday: A Current Affair
Saturday, October 6 marks the return of one of my favorite vintage resources, A Current Affair.
Organizers Richard Wainwright (of NEW/FOUND) and Joey Grana (of Scout) have collected some 30 vendors from around the state to tempt me and visitors at the one-day only event at downtown L.A.’s Cooper Building. […]
Posted in Fashion, Style, VintageGetting Bazaar With Elmo And Ms. Brown
The 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, StyleCaught In Her Web: Valerj Pobega
Consider it this crimson-haired Spiderwoman’s kiss for the first half of 2013.
Women’s wear designer Valerj Pobega dedicated the collection debuting today in New York on the concept of arachnophobia, even calling the stark short she created for the season’s showing after that not uncommon fear. […]
Posted in Fashion, Film, Performance, StyleWhite Before Labor Day: Dîner en Blanc
There have been some pretty special evenings breaking bread with friends during these last red-hot weeks of summer, but none more as sui generis than the Dîner en Blanc, the pop-up dinner picnic that finally launched in Los Angeles Saturday before last and has spread over 5 continents to some 15 cities worldwide. […]
Posted in Food and Drink, Los Angeles, StyleA Most Beautiful Goodbye, From Cunningham to Piaggi
How Very Cosmopolitan
Helen Gurley Brown died today at the ripe age of 90. While I didn’t always agree with everything that came out of her mouth or her mind—particularly in her later years where her judgement crossed the line at times—I appreciated her penchant for living her life her way, boldly, unapologetically and, clad in fishnets until the end of her days, with joie de vivre. […]
Posted in Fashion, Media, StyleOn Racked: My Secret Shop
With cities increasingly brimming with wonderful boutiques, it’s always valuable to get an inside tip. I’ve long enjoyed RackedLA‘s “Shopping Confidential” column because of this.
When RackedLA contributor Yale Breslin contacted me with an invitation to submit my secret shopping spot, it was my pleasure to be able to share a place I’ve written about in LVER before and can never get tired of recommending, since I never grow tired of this designer’s wonderful work. […]
Posted in Craft, Fashion, Media, StyleA Night To Remember: Poolside At The Pink Palace
It could have been one of those fantasy dinner parties with icons conjured over an ordinary dinner with friends, a wish guest list of individuals so part of the pop cultural fabric yet so disparate in their raison d’etre that there is no way they could end up around one table. […]
Posted in Beauty, Costume, Fashion, Food and Drink, Performance, Style