Project Runway

If George R. R. Martin Wrote Every TV Show Ever

Dance Dance Revolution

5 Most Fashion-Forward Muppets (Sorry, Miss Piggy)

As you know, in fashion, one day you're in and the next day you're out. How then to explain the cheerful ubiquity of Miss Piggy? Last August, the porcine mop/puppet turned up at Opening Ceremony to promote a muppet-themed apparel line. This month, she graces a spread in InStyle magazine sporting J ... More >>

John Williams' Untitled, an Abstract Painting in My Home

Why The LAUSD Didn't Let Jamie Oliver Into Their Schools: The Real Reasons [Chart]

Many here in Los Angeles were perplexed when the LAUSD refused to let British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver into their schools to film season 2 of his Food Revolution show. Banned from the cafeterias of this city's public schools, Oliver staged a campaign -- in the press, on Facebook, in a tomato suit ... More >>

Nightranger: We Wear It Well

Villaraigosa Promises Another Wave of City Worker Layoffs

For a guy who hasn't made full use of his mayoral powers over the past four and a half years, and instead has opted to fly around the world and make guests appearances on such TV shows as Project Runway and All My Children, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is suddenly acting kind of like, well ... 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 >>

Fernando Botero Exhibit At The Bowers Museum: Food Art In Actual Sizes

Even if you're the sort of person who follows Top Chef instead of Project Runway, it's difficult sometimes not to feel a bit guilty as you watch Padma in her cocktail dresses and halter tops while you sit on the couch eating actual food. (Of course this may change soon, if yesterday's Twitter report ... More >>

Stage Raw: Molotov Cocktail Flung in the Cold

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS MOLOTOV COCKTAIL FLUNG IN THE COLD Photo courtesy of HighwaysThat's the PR description for the "Free Performative Mixtape (dub)zeck being staged at Highways on Saturday, Aug. 1, 8 p.m. And it's free. "Plunging Pa ... More >>

LOTUS ENTERTAIN YOU

Nightranger Does Fashion Week

Stephen Sprouse, Lady Gaga and Box 8

Fashion Week Diary, Day 1: Grai, Society for Rational Dress, Raquel Allegra and a whole lot of black

It's a strange time for fashion. The 500-pound gorilla in the room threatening to squash all the 98-pound models is, of course, the crappy economy. If you remember, our city's semi-longstanding Fashion Week at Smashbox died a sad death last year in October, just before the nation's banks started sel ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Delhi-6, Fired Up, Madea Goes to Jail

Also, Chain Link, Moscow, Belgium and more

Dressing Down With the 99 Cent Calendar Girls

Also, stores that are "so last year," and wearable pop art

99-Cent Only Calendar Girl Contest

(View more pics in the 99-Cent Only Calendar Girl slideshow.) You know how Project Runway inevitably has the inevitable segment where the aspiring designers are asked to assemble a stylish outfit from stuff purchased at a grocery store--coffee filters, tablecloths, et cetera? Well, the costumes in ... More >>

Nightranger Attends the Gidget Gein Memorial

Lecaro mourns, porns, and gets adorned with L.A.'s original punks and scene makers.

Nightranger: Maggie Barry, Box 8, Shin BBQ, Brian Lichtenberg, and Fashion Accessories by Cobrasnake

ROCK ’N’ WEAR CIRCUS EIGHT’S GREATS

Fashion Week Diary: The Pre-Pre Show

Every October for the past several years, Fashion Week in Los Angeles begins with the Gen Art show. Actually, it begins properly in September with people going on diets and many frantic emails between fashion reporters, stylists, buyers, and publicists, with a deluge of invitations in the mail, and ... More >>

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 >>

MTV Video Music Awards: Keeping Up With the Vamps

VIP = Very Irate People

Queens and Things

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

Rami Kashou

In or out

Project Jump Ship: Moguls Fight Fiercely Over Runway

... agents Endeavor to change

Tabloid Takeover: L.A. Fashion Week's Celebrity Overdose

Is there a designer in the house?

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 >>

Antifashionist Tendencies

Dressing down; Akbar weekends; you gotta Lavitt

Bitter Sweet

Psych... The slide show of Project Runway's final five designer collections at Bryant Park on Bravo.com may have led us to believe there were 5 finalists up for the grand prize this year, but apparently it was some kind of runway ruse. Former LA Weekly staffer and Club Fuck/Sin-a-matic doorgirl Swe ... More >>

Welcome to the Jungle

Speaking of Project Runway (below post), this will come as no surprise to those you’ve read our past posts: we actually kinda liked drag designer Chris’s winning leopard-print number last week. His wrestler diva’s red locks and big cat look is right up our alley. Guess we’re not the only ... More >>

Makin' It Work

Style Wars, Divine Design and Kitchen 24

STYLE WARS TONIGHT!

I'm not a "designer," but I am a fierce competitor -and a STYLE Councilor- so I figured why not? Watch me compete TONIGHT against 7 other fearless fashionistas and deconstruction dymanos at Style Wars. I suck on sewing machines, but as I found out last night, this competition isn't for thread he ... More >>

Project Runway’s Season 4

Fabulousness all around: a fan’s notes

Christmas in April

The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

In the Kodak, in the Pink

And in the dollhouse

Sebelia's Fashion Fight Club

And black's back again

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

Bringin’ Sassy Back

Fab Four

The View at Spaceland

Sit Up and Watch

The best TV of 2006

Savage TV

From freak shows to freak accidents to freakin’ mayhem. Reality goes wild

Grind & Bare It

Tiara Girlz

Puttin' the Hella in Coachella

A festivalgoer’s diary

Reality Survivors

Magical Elves

Project Yard Sale

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

Project Bitch Slap