Fashion Design

At This West Hollywood Fashion Library, the Prada Dress You Rent Could Save Your Life

To its founder, Los Angeles' first fashion library is less a closet than a medicine cabinet. Shaye McKenney started the Fashion Athenaeum last year in a small square of donated gallery space on Fairfax Avenue in West Hollywood. In her view, the Jimmy Choo heels and Dolce & Gabbana military jacke ... More >>

How Ozwald Boateng Helped Invent the Suits Men Wear Today

Ozwald Boateng barely made it to L.A. from Hurricane Sandy-ravaged New York. He got stranded at a strange time -- just days before the premiere of his documentary film, A Man's Story, which chronicles both his professional and personal life, and is nearly 15 years in the making. But he's here, sitti ... More >>

How to Make It Work for a Living

"Il Teatro all Moda: Theater in Fashion"

Fashion Issue 2011: Does L.A. Have a Fashion Identity?

Starlets, surf bums, shagsters, scarecrows, rocker vampires, and more: Our fashion issue explores L.A. style from the streets up

Hedi Slimane

Crossing the Line: A Space by Tanya Aguiniga

FINALLY, KIDS WHO DON'T WANT TO BE MODELS

Automotivated: Streamlined Fashion and Automobiles

Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston

Alexander McQueen, Rock Star Designer, Dies

Alexander McQueen, the British fashion designer who had earned critical acclaim (and numerous awards) for his innovative and outrageous designs, has died, multiple sources report. The Daily Mail is reporting that his death was a suicide. His brand's website offers the following statement: On beha ... More >>

Haute Couture Exhibit

L.A. Burglars 'Smash and Grab' Marc Jacobs Fashion

For the third time in just over two months, Marc Jacobs, the highly-regarded fashion designer, has seen his Los Angeles store attacked by "smash and grab" bandits, according to the Beverly Press, a Westside community newspaper. Fashion designer Marc Jacobs​The most recent incident took place durin ... More >>

Now: Anand Jon Sentencing Hearing

Today is the morning fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander (known professionally as Anand Jon) is to be sentenced for the multiple sexual assault charges for which he was convicted last November. All the lawyers have arrived now in Dept. 102. Defense attorneys Lenny Levine and Donald Marks have just ... More >>

Bulletin: Anand Jon Verdicts to Be Read 11:30 A.M.

A very confusing morning. It began with the anticipation that partial verdicts in the case of fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander would be read at 3 p.m. Then the reading was called off and now, moments ago, it was announced that verdicts on all counts will be read by Judge David Wesley at 11:30 a. ... More >>

Anand Jon: Guilty 16 Times

Fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander faces life in prison today following his conviction on 16 charges of sexual assault and lewd conduct with minors. He was acquitted on four charges, while the jury deadlocked on three other counts. "Mr. Alexander is a 34-year-old pedophile masquerading as a fashi ... More >>

Tokyo Fashion Ass-Whooping

I put together this little assemblage of girls from Tokyo Fashion Week, which preceded our Fashion Week by one month. Must Tokyo so thoroughly kick our ass in the fashion creativity department? I mean, they've got drama and weirdness down, obviously. Like, what's with the pink crablike neck corsage ... More >>

The End of Fashion Week as We Know It: Wailing Outside Lauren Conrad, the Dead Ferret Con and Other Scenes From L.A.'s Last Smashbox Catwalks

With IMG and Smashbox parting ways, L.A. Fashion Week's Culver City era comes to a close

Fashion Week Diary: Goodie Bag Confidential--The Stuff!

Fashion Week is over now, but for my final Fashion Week post, I wanted to show you what was inside the goodie bags. Every designer, if you sit in the front two rows or so, gives out a goodie bag. Each night, I'd come home, deposit the bags on the floor and sort through the contents. This is a port ... More >>

Among the Size-0 Crowd at Fashion Week

Painful stilettos, accreting around Mandy Moore, and more

Best Place to Dress Like Miss Universe: Tadashi

Ferocity from Afar: New York Fashion Week Wrap-up

New York Fashion Week took its final bite out of the Big Apple last week and most fashion fiends and followers have already moved on to the substantially edgier avante-garde parade at London Fashion Week (happening now). But NYC's shows deserve a recap, especially since many of the looks will be s ... More >>

L.A. Fashion Awards Not Happening This Year

The L.A. Fashion Awards are on hiatus until 2009. Why? Money. As in, not enough of it. Those are the awards that come at the end of Fashion Week. Co-founder Jen Uner told Apparel News “The L.A. Fashion Awards have tremendous support from the fashion community, but the business community hasn’t b ... More >>

FASH FLASH: Uh-Oh It’s Magic In Vegas/Sears & Siriano/LA Fashion Week Smashed Out?

Rami Kashou

In or out

Fashion Week, Take 2: Marvin & Quetzal line dazzles

Sleek and elegant, but still tinged with that trademark vibe of rascally weirdness, the fall/winter line by Marvin & Quetzal helped finish Fashion Week Mexico with a dazzling bang. The young duo, among the most promising working in Mexico today, used a bright palette of colors yet managed to kee ... More >>

Fashion Week, Take 1: Paola Hernandez dolls it up

It's Fashion Week Mexico right now, a week-long fair of new moda showcasing the fall and winter collections from many of Mexico's established designers and some exciting up-and-comers. Five years ago such a sentence might have sounded like an oxymoron. A fashion "scene," in Mexico City? Yet the ... More >>

It's A Wrap- LA Fashion Week Trend Report

Another LA Fashion week has ended and now that we’ve recovered –from the clothing cacophony and that nasty cold that’s been going around- it’s time to survey the overall style statements. Yes, there actually were some, and not surprisingly, many came from the crowds not the runway (remember ... More >>

Heavens to Betsey

We love retro fashion references as much as (maybe more than) the next wear-bear, but the regurgitation coming out of New York Fashion week this season is ridiculous. Cobrasnake's crusty slacker scene aside (see previous post), the 70's and 80's aren't just serving as inspiration these days, they ... More >>

Cobrasnake at Fashion Week, NYC

Mark "The Cobrasnake" Hunter hit NYC's Fashion Week and returned with pictures of runways, parties, ingenues and behind the scenes looks at what happened. Click here or any of the photos to see all of Cobrasnake's Fashion Week photos. All photos by Mark "The Cobrasnake" Hunter

Trash and Class

Fashion Week’s return to form

Smashbox DAy TWO: The Verdict: Heatherette is Fierce

Ok, I've finally gotten out of my Heatherette-induced K-hole. I've had a lot of time to think about what I saw. If you asked me yesterday what I thought of the show, I'd have said it was like someone ate a Jo-ann's Fabric store and threw it up all over. Then ate a fourth of July church picnic , ... More >>

Calling All Label Whores: Intermix opening in LA

Kitson is about to get some fierce competition... Intermix, the über popular NYC fashion boutique has announced it will open its first West Coast shop on Wednesday, September 26th (despite what you may have heard from Daily Candy). When I lived in NYC, Intermix was THE place to go for up-to-t ... More >>

Back in Black

Fashion Week Trendmeter

King Jeremy the Wicked

Around the world and back with designer Jeremy Scott, guest-starring Karl Lagerfeld, Cory Kennedy, Mario Testino and the FedEx lady

Sneak Peak: Project Comeback

An exclusive first look at Jeffrey Sebelia’s post–Project Runway collection as the bad-boy designer still battles for respect

The Generators

Gen Art’s fresh faces are where L.A. fashion begins

Where Are You Hollywood?

Last season we had Charlize. Jack Nicholson. Lara Flynn Boyle. Courtney Love. Tommy Lee. Gina Gershon. Anthony Keidis. Mena Suvari. Mike Tyson. Er...Sporty Spice. And of course there was Paris. Aahhh, we'll always have Paris...or so LA Fashion Week thought. But so far this season, and with only ... More >>

Metro 7: Wal-Mart's Debut

That's right I said Wal-Mart. I was up to the congested sinus cavities with apprehension and preconcieved notions. The show itself was partnered with MyTVNetwork and their two shows, Fashion House and Watch Over Me, the former a bitch-slap-athon Dynasty style between Bo Derek and Morgan Fairchild, ... More >>

Hers, Not His

Girls In Films

Last week at Cinespace, fashion blogger Diane Pernet and photographer Dino Dinco debuted the You Wear It Well fashion film festival, presenting an opportunity for L.A. fashionistas to see rarely screened films and get inside the minds behind the mode. It was a very haute affair for the City of Angel ... More >>

Stuck On Rainbows

Petro Zillia designer Nony Tochterman invites us to view the world through her candy-colored lenses

My Fashion Week Haute List

Between all the schmoozing and the boozing, the cruising and the perusing (someone stop me, please), it was near impossible to find the time to do any actual writing about fashion. Now that I've had a few days to process the peculiarly exhausting whirlwind that is LA Fashion Week at Smashbox Studios ... More >>

Kara Saun

Magic Moments with Merlin

I had to say hi to the gentleman in the magical skirt and tie waiting to see the Bradley Bayou show at Smashbox on Wednesday night. His name is Merlin and he's not a wizard, he's a fashion designer from Honduras. He flew in specially, as he plans on showing at LA Fashion Week next season. So far, s ... More >>

Everything Old Is Vintage Again

Beauty and Madness

How I learned to love L.A.’s Fashion Week

Going in Style

Agent Provocateur