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A Gallery Show for Nail Art? Yes, Really

A gallery show centered on art of fingernail adornment lends itself, naturally, to skepticism. After all, flamboyant fingertip art is the province of the Katy Perrys of the world: entertaining, but not the stuff of art exhibits. So at the opening of "Nailed" at Subliminal Projects in Silver Lake on ... More >>

How to Make It Work for a Living

A gallery show centered on art of fingernail adornment lends itself, naturally, to skepticism. After all, flamboyant fingertip art is the province of the Katy Perrys of the world: entertaining, but not the stuff of art exhibits. So at the opening of "Nailed" at Subliminal Projects in Silver Lake on ... More >>

Top 10 Hottest Music Videos Featuring Supermodels (In Honor of Evan Voytas Somehow Getting Kate Moss for His Latest)

Top 10 Music Videos Featuring Models (Featuring Evan Voytas' Kate Moss Cameo)

Who Cares About Bieber, Gaga, or the VMA's? You Do! Winner Recaps Past and Present

Who Really Cares About Bieber, Gaga, or the VMA's? You Do! Winner Recaps Past and Present

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's Answer To The Recession: Go Shopping

​Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was in his favorite milieu today, among flashbulbs and models. At a Beverly Center event, he announced two new programs, "Fashion's Night Out" and "Shop LA," initiatives intended to spur L.A.'s economy and thus generate revenue for the city. At the press conference ... More >>

Matter's Most

Mercedes' nondealership

THE BLACK LIST GOES ON

Mercedes' nondealership

The September Issue's Fashion Victim

Documentary captures Vogue lioness Anna Wintour at her peak

Girl Scouts Follow the Dough at Auntie Anne's Pretzels

Documentary captures Vogue lioness Anna Wintour at her peak

Fashion Week Diary, Supplemental: A Note on The Fancy Bathrooms, and Other Random Miscellanea, Etc.

1. A Word on Bathrooms: If you ever get a chance to pee in the Los Angeles Theater in historic downtown LA, I urge you to visit the Ladies' restroom. There, you will see this. It's way more impressive than I've managed to capture in the photo. 2. The Guests: Can you imagine these guys at Paris ... More >>

Luxury: It’s What’s For Breakfast

1. A Word on Bathrooms: If you ever get a chance to pee in the Los Angeles Theater in historic downtown LA, I urge you to visit the Ladies' restroom. There, you will see this. It's way more impressive than I've managed to capture in the photo. 2. The Guests: Can you imagine these guys at Paris ... More >>

GO LA: Fat Beats, Fat Tuesday and a Fat Comedian

And a fat lot more to do in L.A., February 20-26

Shalom Documentaries!

"The dirty little secret about Sundance is that the best films every year are the documentaries," says Oscar-winning An Inconvenient Truth director David Guggenheim in one of the trailers for this year's Sundance Film Festival. Actually, it's more of an openly acknowledged fact that Sundance's docum ... More >>

Sundance Film Festival 2009: Shalom Documentaries!

"The dirty little secret about Sundance is that the best films every year are the documentaries," says Oscar-winning An Inconvenient Truth director David Guggenheim in one of the trailers for this year's Sundance Film Festival. Actually, it's more of an openly acknowledged fact that Sundance's docu ... More >>

Crude Realities

One of Anna Wintour's most significant (and profitable) contributions to Vogue, we learn in The September Issue, has been her decision to put movie stars -- rather than fashion models -- on the magazine's cover. That gives The September Issue an unintended but hardly insignificant point of connectio ... More >>

Sundance Film Festival 2009: Crude Realities

One of Anna Wintour's most significant (and profitable) contributions to Vogue, we learn in The September Issue, has been her decision to put movie stars -- rather than fashion models -- on the magazine's cover. That gives The September Issue an unintended but hardly insignificant point of connectio ... More >>

Film Poll 2008: WALL-E World

The little robot that could tops another chart

In Her Madgesty's Court

Also, Paper's trail and Punk Rock Karaoke

Patricia Faure: 1928 - 2008

By Christopher Miles Image source: www.patriciafauregallery.com Gallerist Patricia Faure, a mainstay of the Los Angeles gallery scene for decades, died in her sleep on October 21 at the age of 80. Faure began as art dealer Nicholas Wilder’s assistant in the 1970s. For fifteen years, she and fri ... More >>

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 >>

A Night with the Glamour Girls

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 >>

One Stop Style: Lemon Frog Shop and Seraph Cosmetics

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 >>

Melrose Misplaced

Once the epicenter of all that was hip and cutting edge in fashion, Melrose -at least the part between La Brea and Fairfax- is now just a mish-mash of kinda-sorta trendy threads and Downtown LA fashion alley type shops. The punks are gone. The boho types are all on the Eastside. The rich bitches a ... More >>

Wrinkle-Free Fresh Faces at Fashion Week

Botox - your alternative to sweating

The Nanny Diaries: Child-care Crisis

Who’ll suffer the children?

And I'm Telling You...

The Style Council's Oscar winners and losers

And I'm Telling You...

Thank god for Andre Leon Talley. After enduring E!s super-geeky/freaky coverage of the Oscars red carpet last night, we switched over to ABC's own, and the Vogue columnist was definitely a breath of fresh air, talking fashion and film in a fabulous way that only a flamboyant gay man can. Our only c ... More >>

En Vogue

Prada probes the Wintour of a former assistant’s discontent

The Maude Squad

Our tribute to Harold’s gal, the ultimate granny-chic icon

40 Now, 21 Forever

What does age-appropriate mean, anyway?

Style 2006: Hollywood Forever

Dressing the part in the land of eternal youth

A Well-Worn T

Dressing the part in the land of eternal youth

And The Winner Is...

Well, they weren't exactly the Oscars, but the red carpet was rolled out for the first ever LA Fashion Awards Friday night just the same. (And I've just recovered enough from the after-parties to write about it.) First I'd like to say the Los Angeles Times got fashion week wrong (more on th ... More >>

Selling Day for Night

It’s only time on the boulevard

Hail Seitan

It’s only time on the boulevard

Revenge of the NSW

Why we love to hate Plum Sykes

Get Carter?

L.A. Times, N.Y. Times, Wall Street Journal investigating Vanity Fair’s Graydon Carter; LAT probing whether Carter made deals with Hollywood moguls & companies

Revenge of the NSW

Why we love to hate Plum Sykes

Wines on Target

Why we love to hate Plum Sykes

Getting the Skin-ny

Why we love to hate Plum Sykes

Strike a Pose

L.A. Fashion Week Fall 2003

Venus de Me

The waxing of male beauty

Under the Lava Lamp

The waxing of male beauty

The Feminine Mistake

Between a lark and a hard place

This Note’s for You

Neil Young, beyond the fringe and back again

Slush

Neil Young, beyond the fringe and back again

''I'm Bullshitting as Fast as I Can''

The Art and Artifice of Beeaje Quick

Marketing Memory

Life after publication

Study for a Portrait of a Studio Memo

Life after publication