Skirts and Dresses

LBD (Little Black Dress): An Homage to Breakfast at Tiffany's

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 >>

The Making of a Kindergarten Style Icon: Lena and Mirela at Lola et Moi

The too-cute world of toddler couture

Fashion Week Diary, Day 3: The Battalion, Maxine Dillon, Sjobeck, and an Abundance of Dresses Cute & Slutty

Sjobeck's dresses, Inspired by the designer's grandfather. For real. Day 3. The final day of Boxeight shows. It's nice to see the two bohemian Taiwanese sisters who design The Battalion line are back and bohemian as ever. They showed at GenArt last year. This season, their theme is "The New World" ... More >>

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 >>

The End of Fashion Week as We Know It: Wailing Outside Lauren Conrad, the Dead Ferret Con and Other Scenes From L.A.'s Last Smashbox Catwalks

With IMG and Smashbox parting ways, L.A. Fashion Week's Culver City era comes to a close

Fashion Week Diary: Upper Class French Girls in Samora

Designer Samora showed a Paris-themed collection for Spring 09. Dresses with slim bodices and flowing, ruffly, pleated skirts. High-waisted pencil skirts. Palazzo pants. Again, pink seems to be a color for spring, but when isn't it? Samora's clothes this season are sort of what I imagine every Ameri ... More >>

Fashion Week Diary: Crispin & Basilio's Chic Casual

Crispin & Basilio, the line by Donny Barrios, is the kind of stuff you wear when you want to exude a relaxed, chic, slightly preppy air, yet not appear like you purchased the entire J. Crew catalog. Barrios's clothes are casual, fresh and clean looking, with construction interesting enough that you' ... More >>

So '07: The Way We Wore

How to know if you were a fashion victim in '07

Trash and Class

Fashion Week’s return to form

BRIAN LICHTENBERG

There was something that made me feel sexy about the unveiling of Brian Lichtenberg’s Spring and Summer Collection at the Museum of Architecture and Design. The being in a lingerie store kind of sexy: with a mix of the accomplished and the young shining in everything from classic blacks to outra ... More >>

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 >>

Short Subjects

Hot this summer: the swinging trapeze and frocks with pockets

Lovin' Cups

As usual, there were a bevy of bare boobies on the runways during LA Fashion Week a couple weeks ago, and it got me thinking- why does anybody get boob jobs anymore? After all, clothing falls so much better on small chests. And Playboy models aside, it's so much more chic to be a member of the itty ... More >>

The Generators

Gen Art’s fresh faces are where L.A. fashion begins

Lovely Lady Lumps

Fashion tips and alternatives for knocked-up knockouts

Star Struck

Anthony Franco just might be the hardest-working designer in show biz

Sources

Anthony Franco just might be the hardest-working designer in show biz

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

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 >>

Out With the Old

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

An Anti-Pretty Pretty Boy

Charles Stolarek and His Wooden Mustache

Alchemical Reaction

Charles Stolarek and His Wooden Mustache

Men Without Pants

Charles Stolarek and His Wooden Mustache

Expert Advice: Dress To Impress

Event planner Gary Levitt of Sequoia Productions deciphers dress codes

Style LA 03

Event planner Gary Levitt of Sequoia Productions deciphers dress codes

The Making of a Designer

Monah Li on creation, transformation,faith — and garmentos

Eyes of the Needle

Monah Li on creation, transformation,faith — and garmentos

Living Dreams of Visions

Monah Li on creation, transformation,faith — and garmentos

Going in Style

Monah Li on creation, transformation,faith — and garmentos

Retail Revolutionaries

Monah Li on creation, transformation,faith — and garmentos

Savoir Flair

Monah Li on creation, transformation,faith — and garmentos

Marlene Salcido

Monah Li on creation, transformation,faith — and garmentos

Two Germans on Chung King Road

Loyandford

Style Council

Loyandford

Resurfacing

How to avoid looking like yourself