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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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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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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It’s a Valentine made in Hollywood, this evening’s installment of “Jane By Design” on the ABC Family network featuring yours truly in what will no doubt be a blink of a cameo on the new hit series. […]
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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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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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Sparkling shout-out in this week's Wall Street Journal by Marshall Heyman on the recent party for the Tony Duquette-Coach collaboration collection that I co-hosted with pals Nina Clemente and Tracee Ellis Ross (the trio of us pictured above). […]
Today, January 27, marks a half century of my darling Andy Griffith gracing this good earth.
Still foxy as ever at fifty, Darling.
Happy Birthday.
xo+R+n […]
Posted in Current Affairs, StyleCONGRATULATIONS to the talented Arianne Phillips for her Academy Award nomination in Costume Design for her beautiful work on W.E.!
This is Ari’s second Oscar nomination, and so well deserved. […]
Posted in Art, Current Affairs, Film, StyleCRAZY HORSE Trailer – Documentary by Frederick Wiseman
With Andy spending his last night faraway in Paris after a freezing weekend navigating Maison et Objet, I thought of the upcoming release by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman on that marvelous Parisienne institution, the Crazy Horse. […]
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If you haven't yet, get yourself over to the MOCA Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood to catch the final hours of Hedi Slimane's ode to the Golden State and first solo museum show, California Song. […]
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If the best job in the world is one where it doesn't feel at all like work, then being able to glam it up and cohost a party with truly fabulous pals such as Tracee Ellis Ross, Hutton Wilkinson and Nina Clemente (as we're all pictured above) was a great gig, indeed. […]
If brevity is the soul of wit, then today's feature on the talented Michael Schmidt by The Los Angeles Times fashion critic Booth Moore makes its point as brightly and condensed as a Swarovski crystal. […]
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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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Every year, Pantone, that gatekeeper for any industry that relies on color, christens a new shade designated to reflect the aspirations of both the times and the trends. For 2012, that is a reddish-orange hue imbued with the real and imagined qualities of optimism, revival and energy and dubbed Tangerine Tango. […]
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As you likely can tell from the dearth of entries as of late, I'm soaking in all the hoopla that comes at this time of year.
It's some work, some play. […]
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