Fashion Design

Rodarte Sisters' New Book Rodarte, Catherine Opie, Alec Soth Unveiled at the Hammer Museum

Patrick Range McDonaldSisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte​ In a rare public appearance on Wednesday night, the sisters of Rodarte, who rank among the most famous and celebrated American fashion designers today, discussed their first endeavor into the book world. Held at the Hammer Muse ... More >>

Simone Legno of tokidoki: Italian-Japanese Fusion

Fake Designer Goods Sellers in Downtown L.A. Ordered by Court to Stop it: Now You Know Where Not to Buy Counterfeit Goods

For real.​Fake designer fashions and accessories downtown are a fixture. They've been there longer than most loft-dwellers. And while there have been occasional crackdowns, you pretty much count on being able to find three things downtown: Heroin, homeless addicts and counterfeit Louis Vuitton ... More >>

TUTU MUCH

Full Figured Fashion Week: How To Be Fashionably Fat

​ These lovely ladies aren't fashionistas, they are "fatshionistas." They were out in force when Full Figured Fashion Week came to Los Angeles for the first time this past weekend. They gave me some tips on how to survive stylishly in a thin person's world. 1. Love your body the way it is. ... More >>

WHERE'S THERE'S A WILL, THERE'S A NEW WACKY COMEDY

'Tis The Season For Cheap (Fake) Sunglasses In L.A.

​Notice a lot of high-end Italian sunglasses out there perched nicely on the noggins of people who don't have the rest of the couture ensemble to match? Us too. Let us be so presumptuous to suggest that at least some of these designer light-ray filters are ... fake. A U.S. Customs and Border ... More >>

Sashay Mayor V: Hizzoner Hits 'Runway'

In between solving a $500 million budget shortfall, choosing a new Los Angeles Police Department chief and making sure those potholes get filled, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa found time to appear on this week's season finale of Bravo's Project Runway.Bravo​ They had a little fun with the city's ... More >>

After a Fashion

Best of L.A.: Club Wear

Anand Jon Sentence: 59 Years to Life

After hearing fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander argue before his court for an entire day for a new trial, Judge David Wesley declared there were no new grounds for granting such a motion. Then, following emotional victim statements delivered by three of the women the designer was convicted last N ... More >>

Nightranger Does Fashion Week

Stephen Sprouse, Lady Gaga and Box 8

Fashion Week Diary: Out of the Smashbox, More Rough Edges, Less Bitchiness

A smaller, friendlier show for recessionary times

Luxury: It’s What’s For Breakfast

Makeup for Pussy Cats: Hello Kitty & MAC

Last year they did Dame Edna, now they're doing a Hello Kitty line of cosmetics. "Somewhere between a coy girl and sexy siren, M·A·C Hello Kitty represents the desire in all of us to be both innocent and mischievous," says their PR. She is coy girl, sexy siren, and all cat.The color palette is bl ... More >>

Michelle Obama's Inauguration Dress Predictions

Has she picked her dress yet? Womens Wear Daily asked designers to send in sketches of what our new First Lady should wear on Inauguration Day. Isaac Mizrahi, Monique Lhuillier, Carolina Herrera, Badgley Mischka, Karl Lagerfeld, Diane Von Furstenberg, even Betsey Johnson (oh please no, Michelle) sub ... More >>

Fashion Week Diary: Debra Davenport, Giving Talbots A Run For Its Money

People kept asking me "Who is Debra Davenport?" and I kept having to say, "I'm not sure." A bit of googling reveals that she is the CEO of a luxury women's fashion house headquartered in Phoenix Arizona. HauteAZ tells us "She received her B.A. at the age of 19, her M.A. degree at the age of 21, and ... More >>

A Night with the Glamour Girls

Anand Jon Rape Trial Nears

A semen-stained comforter, a tampon and a camera. These were some of the items listed on a Beverly Hills P.D. search warrant when officers raided fashion designer Anand Jon's pad in March, 2007. Later that year Jon was charged with a list of offenses more often associated with spring break at Lake H ... More >>

Bryan Rabin

When heavy hitters want to tap into L.A.'s vast and idiosyncratic cultural reservoir, here's the man they call

OUTFIT OF THE WEEK: JEREMY SCOTT & KELLY CUTRONE

Last week we started a new Style Council feature in which we spotlight a stylish scenester out on the town, and we chose a gal who really stood out from the crowd of carbon-copy cuties around her at The Kress, the fancy schmancy new restaurant and nightclub in Hollywood. The sentiment on her Hyste ... More >>

Jennifer Egan

Jen art

FASHION NIRVANA?

LA Fashion week is in full swing, and though it's too early to make judgments about the season as a whole, some definite trends are already emerging. Hello again grunge! Yes, the plaid flannel is flapping in the breeze once again, along with Chris Cornell hair, motorcycle boots, Indiana Jones-styl ... More >>

Sonic Youth: They Are Not Rock. They Curate Rock.

Marc Jacobs asked Sonic Youth to leap. Their response was "How high?"

Movie Reviews: Alvin and the Chipmunks, Look, The Perfect Holiday

Also Lagerfeld Confidential, Man in the Chair and The Protagonist

15 More Minutes

Fashion week is officially over, but that doesn't mean the strutting has stopped completely. Thanks to a power outage in my area, I missed the David Yurman menswear show at the Paramour mansion last night (cant get dressed in the dark!) but I hear it was, as Kimora Lee Simmons would say, pure fabu ... More >>

Local Sensations

LACMA’s “Art and Music” series

Sticks + Skin + Bones

Fashion Flashing

Beauty Bars Across America- TONIGHT!

Tonight (Wed, 10/4) kicks off the month-long Fashion Targets Breast Cancer (FTBC) charity event at Beauty Bars across the nation. The Council of Fashion Designers of America, with Rose Apodaca and Trina Turk, are hosting our local fundraiser at the Cahuenga Beauty Bar tonight. Get a martini* and a m ... More >>

Cory's World

Reality Survivors

Magical Elves

Scenes From L.A. Fashion Week

We Heart Denim...Honest

I'm not sure if any of us Style Council gals were at the denim shows last night... Buffalo, Yanuk and Taverniti were the designers showing, and even though denim and sportwear are LA's greatest exports - or at least most lucrative - how exciting can a pair of jeans get, right? Maybe that's why I ... More >>

And The Winner Is...

Well, they weren't exactly the Oscars, but the red carpet was rolled out for the first ever LA Fashion Awards Friday night just the same. (And I've just recovered enough from the after-parties to write about it.) First I'd like to say the Los Angeles Times got fashion week wrong (more on th ... More >>

Nightranger Show and Tell

More Fashion week fierceness is on the way, but for now here's some visuals to go with Nightranger (Fashion Week addition) in this week's paper. Top photo: Paris and her fuzzy date (along with the designer of 2B Free, left) at Paramount Studios. Bottom photo: Richard Branson's idea of LA style? ... More >>

The Atkins Advantage

If you think the hottest spot at LA Fashion Week is backstage with the models or front row with the celebs, you're sadly mistaken. Those in the know have been making a beeline for the lo-carb Atkins booth in the lobby at Smashbox. Greg (the happy one on the left) and his partner in crime Key, have ... More >>

Louis Verdad's flirty 1950's-themed

Louis Verdad's flirty 1950's-themed show capped the opening night of LA Fashion Week, pulling in a healthy front row celebrity turnout, including Gina Gershon (she's the one in the newsboy cap in the background), and Paris Hilton, a slimline Jack Osbourne and Kimberley Stewart sitting all together. ... More >>

Destiny’s Child

The Scissor Misters

Snakebites

The Now Garde

10 L.A. Designers

The New-Old Now

Silk cut

Strike a Pose

L.A. Fashion Week Fall 2003

The Making of a Designer

Monah Li on creation, transformation,faith — and garmentos

In This Corner

L.A.'s competing Fashion Weeks

Suit Yourself

Marlene Salcido

A Defense of Missile Defense . . .

. . . is enough to torpedo your appetite