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Project Runway

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2011

    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 >>

  • Art+Books

    October 13, 2011

    John Williams' Untitled, an Abstract Painting in My Home

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2011

    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 >>

  • Music

    March 25, 2010

    Nightranger: We Wear It Well

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2009

    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 >>

  • Music

    October 22, 2009

    After a Fashion

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2009

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    April 2, 2009

    LOTUS ENTERTAIN YOU

    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 >>

  • Music

    March 19, 2009

    Nightranger Does Fashion Week

    Stephen Sprouse, Lady Gaga and Box 8

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2009

    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 >>

  • Film+TV

    February 19, 2009

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

    Also, Chain Link, Moscow, Belgium and more

  • Columns

    January 15, 2009

    Dressing Down With the 99 Cent Calendar Girls

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

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2009

    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 >>

  • Music

    December 11, 2008

    Nightranger Attends the Gidget Gein Memorial

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

  • Music

    October 23, 2008

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

    ROCK ’N’ WEAR CIRCUS EIGHT’S GREATS

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2008

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2008

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2008

    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 >>

  • Music

    September 11, 2008

    MTV Video Music Awards: Keeping Up With the Vamps

    VIP = Very Irate People

  • Music

    September 4, 2008

    Queens and Things

    VIP = Very Irate People

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2008

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

    VIP = Very Irate People

  • LA Life

    May 15, 2008

    Rami Kashou

    In or out

  • News

    April 10, 2008

    Project Jump Ship: Moguls Fight Fiercely Over Runway

    ... agents Endeavor to change

  • Columns

    March 20, 2008

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

    Is there a designer in the house?

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2008

    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 >>

  • Music

    February 21, 2008

    Antifashionist Tendencies

    Dressing down; Akbar weekends; you gotta Lavitt

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2008

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2008

    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 >>

  • Music

    December 6, 2007

    Makin' It Work

    Style Wars, Divine Design and Kitchen 24

  • Blogs

    November 27, 2007

    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 >>

  • LA Life

    November 8, 2007

    Project Runway’s Season 4

    Fabulousness all around: a fan’s notes

  • Art+Books

    April 26, 2007

    Christmas in April

    The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

  • Music

    April 5, 2007

    In the Kodak, in the Pink

    And in the dollhouse

  • Columns

    April 5, 2007

    Sebelia's Fashion Fight Club

    And black's back again

  • LA Life

    March 22, 2007

    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

  • Music

    January 25, 2007

    Bringin’ Sassy Back

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

  • Music

    January 18, 2007

    Fab Four

    The View at Spaceland

  • Film+TV

    December 28, 2006

    Sit Up and Watch

    The best TV of 2006

  • News

    September 7, 2006

    Savage TV

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

  • Music

    July 27, 2006

    Grind & Bare It

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

  • Film+TV

    June 1, 2006

    Cook, Lie and Sinker

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

  • Music

    May 11, 2006

    Tiara Girlz

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

  • Music

    May 4, 2006

    Puttin' the Hella in Coachella

    A festivalgoer’s diary

  • News

    April 20, 2006

    Reality Survivors

    Magical Elves

  • Columns

    March 30, 2006

    Project Yard Sale

    Magical Elves

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2006

    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 >>

  • LA Life

    March 23, 2006

    Kara Saun

    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 >>

  • Film+TV

    March 2, 2006

    Project Bitch Slap

    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 >>

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