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As we covered on Friday, opening night ofArias with a Twist, starring Zumanity luminary Joey Arias and puppeteer genius Basil Twist, lured the club kid in all of us and briefly turned the lobby of REDCAT into The Limelight circa 1991 (ok not quite, but James St. James was in attendance for World of Wonder).Photos courtesy o (Read More)
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The School of Style, the how-to-be-a-stylist workshop founded by wardrobe stylist Luke Storey, is back in session this Sunday, November 22. And the class should quickly dispel the myth that styling is an "easy job."
The eight hour classroom session, which takes place at Smashbox Studios' almost-West Hollywood location ($28 (Read More)
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The body of 20 year-old South Korean model Dau Kim, who walked the runways for the likes of Alexander McQueen and Karl Lagerfeld, was found hanging in her Paris apartment yesterday. So, so sad.
Even sadder is that Kim kept a blog where she vented about the pressures of a life described as "lonely." Eerily, her final entry, (Read More)
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Treesje, the Culver City-based bag company helmed by L.A. denizens Sheila Nazarian and Laura Darrah, is hosting a "tailgating party" today and tomorrow.
Located in the driveway of a private residence, the bash will feature pieces from Nazarian and Darrah's spring and fall 2009 collections at 50-80 percent off retail.
Expe (Read More)
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Savings.com your shopping just got easier. No need to thank us, just get yourself a decent outfit and replace that ratty makeup brush. Thats present enough for us.
Why would you ever go designer on a wardrobe st (Read More)
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Jeanne-Claude, the fire-haired dynamo who with husband Christo captivated even the most cynical of us with grandiose works of environmental art, died last night at age 74.
The couple brought Tejon Ranch to life in 1991 with their yellow umbrella installation, in tandem with a similar work in Ibaraki, Japan. The LA Times re (Read More)
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By now, everyone probably knows that thigh high boots are a major fall trend. But there are plenty of us finding it hard to scrounge up the cash for the boots we so badly crave.
Enter thigh high socks, which are just as--if not more-- essential than that expensive footwear. Just add the socks with last year’s knee high (Read More)
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While rebel MC-with-a-cause M.I.A.’s accolades for performance and artistry are well-deserved, she may need to work on her merchandising skills (and karma, for that matter).
In a recent post on Theme magazine’s blog, fashion designer Samia Malik, founder of the label ihtgw, claims that in 2007 the charismatic Sri Lankan ra (Read More)
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As a gal, it can be intimidating to shop in a hardcore snowboarding store, which seem to always be staffed by hot, taciturn male riders.Burton, one of the most venerated snowboarding companies, knows this — and is hosting a special “Girl’s Night Out” shopping event with Teen Vogue tomorrow night (Thursday) with a strict no (Read More)
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Last night, the Burberry boutique in Beverly Hills hosted a small cocktail gathering to showcase theirspring collection and celebrate The Bolter, author Frances Osborne's biography of her great-grandmother, scandalous Jazz Age socialite Idina Sackville.
The most eye catching piece of the evening wasn't Burberry's short, st (Read More)
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Via Vimeo, Raf Simons' "fitting SS10" videos are spare, fascinating, beautiful and slightly creepy. Exactly what you'd expect from the designer who gets tremendous heaps of adulation from Cathy Horyn every season. The belted blazers and trench motif from the runway show are used for dramatic straitjacket effect. “Everything (Read More)
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Kidding. We get it, F21 attorneys: Everyone's favorite fast-fashion women's retailer settled a trade dress suit with Trovata earlier this fall. The OC-borne label accused Forever 21 that it had pretty much copied emulated its designs, leaving the whole should-fashion-be-subject-to-more-stringent-intellectual-property-standa (Read More)
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Kidding. We get it, F21 attorneys: Everyone's favorite fast fashion women's retailer settled out of court earlier this fall on charges that it pretty much copied emulated Trovata's designs, leaving the whole should-fashion-be-subject-to-more-stringent-intellectual-property-standards question unresolved (terms of settlement (Read More)
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Lately, Thursday's have been the big night to party---and this week is no exception.
DJ C.C. Sheffield (who we profiled as an influential in our L.A. Gothic shoot this past September) is resurrecting Le Rev Revue, her popular acoustic music party that used to take place at the Standard Hollywood on Sunset.
Now the fete ha (Read More)
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As they say, one gal's trash is another gal's treasure. And that couldn't be more true last night at the W Los Angeles-Westwood and Yelp.com dress swap, where a bevy of stylish souls came to hunt for holiday wear on the free.
Each guest brought a selection of dresses from their giveaway pile to trade for looks brought by o (Read More)