Fashion and Style

Institute for Art and Olfaction Will Bring Together Art and Perfume

I spent a solid 30 minutes last Friday night attempting to figure out what exactly was "old lady" smell, sniffing through several bottles trying to find a version of it, before I finally gave up -- but not without learning a thing or two about scents. If that doesn't strike you as an evening of enc ... More >>

The Bizarre World of Makeup Artists, Where Ovals are Perfection and Monsters are Beautiful

When the International Makeup Artist Trade Show rolls into town, it brings with it a million tiny pans of eye shadow -- and the utter conviction that the right shade of lipstick can change your life. At the Pasadena Convention Center, where the trade show took place earlier this summer, beauty i ... More >>

Silverlake Beard/Mustache Contest Brings Hairy Hipsters to L.A. Public Library

Adam Gropman​The L.A. Public Library's Silverlake branch wants to raise a lot of community awareness and a little extra funding. That means they're probably gonna throw a bake sale or a car wash or maybe a used book clearance event, right? Are you kidding me? This is Silverlake! They hold a ... More >>

"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

Goodwill Goes Hollywood: A Star Is Born

Broader Than Broadway

Mad Men's Allison Leach Designs Gorgeous Uniforms for First & Hope; Local Designer Martin Zepeda Creates LBD for Tar Pit

First & HopeStaff at First & Hope model their uniforms (L to R): A dining room assistant/runner uniform, a floor-length hostess gown, a bartender/server uniform, a cocktail server mini-dress, another bartender/server uniform, a server dress and a female bartender dress.​ Remember when bagels w ... More >>

Top 5 Classic Sci-Fi Characters That Would Have Looked Even Cooler with Mustaches

Lando pimped the 'stache even in a galaxy far, far away​We're nearing the end of Mustache May and as people across the web compare facial hair, we couldn't help but wonder if some of our favorite, classic sci-fi characters would look even cooler with a little (or a lot) of fuzz above the lip. ... More >>

The Smell Of Michael Jackson, Hair And Now: Company Formulates Cologne Based On MJ DNA

​A company that makes fragrances based in part on the DNA of dead celebrities has unveiled a Michael Jackson signature scent that's purported to be based on genes extracted from locks collected from the pop star's head. Hairy! Los Angeles-based My DNA Fragrance recently partnered up with cele ... More >>

Wine Hair Gel, Or What to Do With That Crappy Bottle of Merlot from Your Last Dinner Party

Thank goodness for hair gel. Now we can all finally get over our Sideways "I'm not drinking any f#cking merlot!" complex. Of course, we all know that celebrity hairstylist Ted Gibson makes a mean cocktail party chignon (a fancy and expensive name for your grandmom's bun). Now he's added a line of wi ... More >>

War Tapes Jewelry: Neo-Victorian and Lolita Merch

Becca Popkin War Tapes may be best known for cranking out brooding jams at clubs and loft parties across Los Angeles, but Becca Popkin, bassist for the Downtown-based group has another talent that will be on display when the band embarks on its nationwide tour with VNV Nation this Saturday at Club N ... More >>

Barbie Doll Body Parts as Jewelry: Margaux Lange's Ear Earrings and Hand Necklaces--Like Dahmer's Refrigerator, Only Pretty

Would you wear these bizarre jewelry items made by Brooklyn artist Margaux Lange? They are made of chopped up pieces of Barbie dolls. They are plasticky, strange, cheerful, and just a bit creepy in a budding serial killer kind of way. I particularly enjoy the earrings made of ears. And the little da ... More >>

EASTER SCHMEASTER

Michelle Obama's Election Night Dress

America did the right thing at the polls this time around. I'm so happy, even Michelle Obama's odd election night dress is looking good right now. The crisscross empire waist and side panels are meant to be strategically slimming, I believe. Sure, the swath of red splashed across the front is discon ... More >>

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

Fashion Week Diary: Beach Bunny Babes, Butts and Boobs

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 >>

Jay Diola

Hair apparent

Grammy Hair Talk: Night of the Long Bob

If you're doing Pink's hair, even if you're not doing her hair in pink, you have to remember she's still Pink.

Trash and Class

Fashion Week’s return to form

Royal Welding

Jewelry fit for a king or a queen, baby

Whitley Kros, Beck and Juliette Lewis

Yes, one half of Whitley Kros is Mrs. Beck, Marissa Ribisi. The other half is Sophia Banks, Marissa's long-time friend. Beck was of course, the musical director for the show. He did a great job as you can imagine, with two turntables and a microphone, he stayed up int he DJ booth and let his wife ... More >>

Fashion Week(S) ! BoxEight Kicks It Off

Every year LA Fashion Week seems to get a little longer. It has been pushed to nearly a month long string of shows and satellite parties. Today BoxEight, the alternative art/ production company returns for a second attempt at bringing LA Fashion back downtown (where some say it belongs), with their ... More >>

Snip, Snip

Headed toward a split ending with your hairdresser? A cheater’s guide to some of L.A.’s most seductive salons

Short Subjects

Hot this summer: the swinging trapeze and frocks with pockets

Sebelia's Fashion Fight Club

And black's back again

Sexy Beast

GODDOLLARS goes for the jugular

Strung Out

Wahine Beads entices would-be jewelers

Dark Shadows

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab’s uncommon scents

Star Powder

Napoleon Perdis gives L.A. a make over

Fashion Flashing

The Phantom Jasmine

Best nighttime scents

One Love

The evolution of a swimsuit

Go, Speed Dater!

Fashion adventures in the online hookup

Sources

Beauty and Madness

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

A Living Spectacle

L.A. Fashion Week

Rich Dog, Poor Man

Getting the Skin-ny

Expert Advice: Dress To Impress

Event planner Gary Levitt of Sequoia Productions deciphers dress codes

Style LA 03

In This Corner

L.A.'s competing Fashion Weeks

BEK

Stink Bomb

Hector Schechner strikes back

Sensible Shoes for Swing Kids

Re-Mix

Style Council