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Forever 21 Compelled By Federal Judge To Comply with 'Sweatshop' Investigation

Read L.A. Weekly's feature story, "Sweatshops Are Fashion's Dirty Little Secret. But They Don't Exist in L.A. -- Do They?" Forever 21 founders and husband-and-wife team Do Won Chang and Jin Sook can't duck the federal government anymore. On March 7, U.S. District Court Judge Margaret Morrow ordere ... More >>

Forever 21, HSN, Urban Outfitters Clothing Came From 'Sweatshop Practices' In L.A?

If you're feeling warm and cozy about that sweater you're giving your girlfriend for the holidays, beware the following information: Federal and state authorities say that workers were underpaid at L.A. clothing manufacturers that engaged in "sweatshop practices" as they made goods for some of the ... More >>

Sweatshops Are Fashion's Dirty Little Secret. But They Don't Exist in L.A. -- Do They?

Ivy Queen, Plan B, Alexis y Fido - Latino 96.3 Spring Break Bash - 4/14/2012

Latino 96.3 Spring Break Bash Gibson Amphitheater 4/14/12 Better than... Listening to 96.3 on crummy car speakers in traffic. It was ladies' night at Universal Citywalk on Saturday. The girls worked the runway from the parking structure to Gibson Amphitheater, elbows locked and dodging tourists wh ... More >>

Coachella in the Rain: Top 5 Ways We Ladies Can Still Look Cute

See also: *Coachella Preview 2012: Everything You Need to Know About the Performers *Going to Coachella? Bring This Gear or You're Effed! When it comes to Coachella, what's better: 103-degree temperatures or a drizzly, windy, muddy polo field? The latter is what many festival-goers might be facing ... More >>

L.A. Street Fashion: Rose Bowl Flea Market

Every second Sunday of the month in Pasadena is the famous Rose Bowl Flea Market, one of L.A.'s longest-running flea markets featuring tons of vendors selling their goods, from vintage and period clothing to antique furnishings. Something about outdoor flea markets always attracts people with such ... More >>

Joey and Anthony Hernandez, the T-Shirt Millionaires

Sift through the sale rack at your local Forever 21 mall store and you may come across a T-shirt with a picture of a girl staring into shards of a mirror. Retailing for $14.90, it is a seemingly edgy but ultimately innocuous shirt. It has no particular brand affiliation, no band or product or compan ... More >>

Angelo Bowers, L.A. Comedian, Killed by Drunk 21-Year-Old in Attempted Hit-and-Run

The lone fatality of an early-morning DUI pileup on January 3 has been identified as 26-year-old Angelo Bowers. According to comedy site LaughSpin, Bowers -- who didn't have a Twitter or Facebook account -- was somewhat of a comic's comic, well-known and -loved by the insider L.A. comedy community. ... More >>

Top 11 Fashion Trends of 2011

Lina Lecaro ​The barrage of blogs tallying the year in trends and fashion has begun, and of course, we are totally participating. We do it every year, after all. And while we try to note the obvious, we also strive to call out the stuff you're not likely to see on the other blogs, stuff we no ... More >>

Yelping With Cormac: The Author of Blood Meridian Reviews Taco Bell

Yelping with Cormac​At its best, Yelp help can help you find a lunch that won't ruin your day.  At its worse, the website is, if not a petri dish for extortion, a willful enabler of bad, whiney writers.  The first big problem is, according to a judge, no longer up for debate, but the second ... More >>

Blu Interview: We Chop It Up With ​L.A.'s Patron Saint of Lyricism

Blu ​Blu soundlessly materializes in Silverlake's La Mill coffee boutique. The rapper's aura is so serene it forms a barrier against the sounds of jittery fingertips flitting across keyboards and conversations that seem to be in fast forward. I think of a line from "Down to Earth," a song from ... More >>

Brian Lichtenberg: Diva Duds

Six L.A. Neighborhoods With the Most Distinctive Fashion Styles

Jason Levesque​ How we dress can send messages not only about who we are and what we like but also where we're from. There is no singular "L.A. look," and Silver Lake isn't all beards and ironic T-shirts, either. Still, there are certain aesthetics -- in the form of everything from accessorie ... More >>

Ke$ha Gets Sleazy at the Hollywood Palladium (Fans, Midriffs and Glitter Galore!)

Jena ArdellKe$ha loves you, L.A.​ [Originally published Saturday, May 7, 8:38AM] [Commentary by Dave Parkman] What: Ke$ha Where: Hollywood Palladium When: Fri. 5/6/2011 Ke$ha brought her Get Sleazy tour last night to the Hollywood Palladium. Openers were HAIM and Beardo. Here are some phot ... More >>

Lina Lecaro's Coachella Do's and Don'ts

Lina Lecaro ​ Ready and rarin' to go for Coachella? If you packed days ago, and are heading up today, then you probably are. Goodie for you. But those preparing to battle traffic tonight or tomorrow, well, you might need a little planning help. As a seasoned Coachella vet we've done it all (of ... More >>

Know Your Rich People, Los Angeles: A List of SoCal's 20 Billionaires

Richboy Slim, worth $74 billion.​Forbes' annual list of "The World's Billionaires" was released this week, and (gasp) a Mexican, Carlos Slim Helu, took the top spot for the second time in a row. The U.S. grip on the billionaire game, and California's too, has been slipping even as the ultra-r ... More >>

Diamond Gal Circle Brings Cute and Sexy Japanese Street Fashion to Los Angeles

See more photos in Shannon Cottrell's gallery "Gal Crazy at Holiday Hot Mess." Tuesday night, the gals took over Royal/T, the Culver City maid cafe/art gallery, for Holiday Hot Mess. Hosted by Diamond Gal Circle and Tune in Tokyo, the event focused on the Japanese subculture known as gyaru, or gal. ... More >>

Happy Hour: Miru 8691 in Beverly Hills

K. Robbins​ The place: Miru 8691, 9162 W Olympic Blvd, Beverly Hills (310-777-8378) The hours: Daily, 5-9:30pm The deals: From the website, "Drive off town to search for cheap eats or put your self out on the street with food truck or Drive back to Beverly Hills and enjoy 16 oz Sapporo for ... More >>

Movie Review: THE ROMANTICS

Deaf Man Choked By Forever 21 Security Guard In Hollywood Threatens Suit

YouTube​Attorneys for a deaf man taken down and choked to blueness by a Forever 21 security guard at the Hollywood and Highland Center in Hollywood threatened to sue the fashion retailer if it doesn't come up with a satisfactory settlement offer, according to ABC7. The chain suspended the gua ... More >>

Security Guard Goes UFC On Deaf Guy At Hollywood & Highland Center

YouTube​The latest in what seems like a string of videos capturing security guards behaving badly hit the internet this week: This edition (after the jump) has a guard pretending to be a UFC fighter and choking out a deaf man as his also-deaf friend tries desperately to alert the meathead that ... More >>

From Disney Store to Tiffany's, The New Santa Monica Place Aims For Happiest Mall On Earth

For beachside locals, Santa Monica Place provided the quintessential mall experience throughout the '80's and '90's. (Fun fact: it was featured for mall scenes in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Pretty in Pink and Beverly Hills, 90210). At some point, though, it started to seem comparatively shabby n ... More >>

South Central Farmers: New Life with a Ceremony, a Festival Water

Brooke BurtonTribal Elders and South Central Farmers at Buttonwillow Farm's Blessing​ The sun rose over Buttonwillow Farm in Bakersfield early last Saturday morning, as Native American elders and members of the South Central Farmers collective gathered to bless the land for future harvest. In ... More >>

Nightranger's Coachella Check-list: Desert Dos and Don'ts

Ready and rarin' to go for Coachella? If you packed days ago, drove up Wednesday or Thursday morning and didn't over do it at the parties last night, then you probably are. Goodie for you. But those of us preparing to battle Friday traffic in hopes of getting there before sunset tonight, well, we mi ... More >>

People Make Mistakes: Chris Brown Fan Appreciation Tour @ Avalon (11/18)

The shrieking washed through Avalon in a solid wave of 14 year-old girls wearing short dresses from Forever 21 and boys whose bright sneakers gleamed in the darkness like the eyes of ghosts trailing sparkly wallet chains. Chris Brown's Fan Appreciation show last Wednesday was morally tormenting. I ... More >>

Best of L.A.: Shopping

Girl Scouts Follow the Dough at Auntie Anne's Pretzels

The Follies Sisters' Past Lives: Tap Dancing Around the Antimodernity Movement

Why live your life in the past? Because the present kind of sucks

Best Day in the 'burbs

Going carless in Glendale and Montrose

Best Steals and Deals on Robertson Boulevard

Saving cash amid the flash

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 >>

OUTFIT OF THE WEEK

As you can probably imagine, we see a lot of "hot" and "not" fashion out there while patrolling LA's clubs and hubs every week, but sometimes it's all about context... The funky lame ensemble and multi- colored hair here wouldn't have caught our eye at Cinespace Tuesday or Club Moscow or any night a ... More >>

Booka Shade, Avalon Hollywood, July 26

Booka Shade, July 26, at Avalon Hollywood Text and photos by Dennis Romero It’s a relatively new medium boxed in by opposing conventions: rocking out versus remaining faithful to the linear, lockstep groove of the modern dance floor. Few – perhaps Kraftwerk, the Chemical Brothers and the firs ... More >>

Zen and the Art of Cougar Hunting

Zen Kern's cougar class: life-coaching an evolving dating paradigm

Sunny and Mild: Getting to Know Our Fair-Weather Friends of Local News

Or, how Ted Turner saved Dallas Raines from network hell

Those Skinny Britches: Grabbing L.A.'s Thinnest Jeans ...

... before the wide-bottoms take over

Chills, Hills and (Cheap) Thrills

Catching the fashion bug takes on new meaning during flu season, or so we've discovered. The collections and presentations at Mercedes Benz fashion Week at Smashbox Studios the past few days have been fairly interesting, but nobody should have to cram into stuffy rooms filled with bitchy fashion fi ... More >>

Lovely Lady Lumps

Fashion tips and alternatives for knocked-up knockouts

Best Secret Trendy Bargain Bin

Best Mall for (Actual) Rats

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40 Now, 21 Forever

What does age-appropriate mean, anyway?

Out With the Old

Cashing in your clothes? What to bring, what to leave and what to expect . . .

Mall Ratting

Jersey Girl

Rachel Pally’s fashion for all

Where to Shop Now: Downtown Discounts

No Said Fred

Edited by Kateri Butler

The Making of a Designer

Monah Li on creation, transformation,faith — and garmentos

Sex, Mugs and Rock & Roll

Beautiful People: I’m Your Biggest-Paid Fan