Kateri Butler

Photos by Julie Pavlowski In colors only a Venice Boardwalk cotton-candy concessionaire could dream up, Brian Lichtenberg’s tennis dresses evoke a mythical Southern California — the place of little deuce coupes, surfer girls and good vibrations. But like Lichtenberg himself, there’s a mischievous edge to his designs: A leather strap......

Does L.A. need a Fashion Week? I know it smacks of heresy to even entertain such a question. After all, it was just last April that L.A. got a big-deal sponsored week — two competing ones in fact. This time around Smashbox and 7th on Sixth/Mercedes-Benz wised up and combined......

Illustration by Natalya Ugodnikova Metrosexuals, schmetrosexuals. Sure, plenty of fellows regularly tap into the feminine mystique with pedis, manis, facials and more — and they’re looking all the sexier for it — but these things are just so, how shall we put it, cosmetic. Instead of simply curving gender, more......

After attending shows by some 40 designers during L.A. Fashion Week Spring 2004, I find myself in a metaphysical pickle. Sure, we could chat about the flounces, ruffles, ruching, shirring, buttons, asymmetrical necklines, lurex, buckles, danglies, hankie hems, blousons and jersey that dominated the runways. But for the moment I’m......

Photos by Raul Vega Perhaps you think you know all about the perils of Hollywood after endless viewings of The Bad and the Beautiful, but in Girls Will Be Girls, Evie (Jack Plotnick), Coco (Clinton Leupp) and Varla (Jeffery Roberson) show a side to Tinseltown that will blow the popcorn......

Whether looking back at last year, or four decades ago, L.A. Fashion Week Fall 2003 was defined by a sense of nostalgia, punctuated by occasional flashes of brilliance but no revelations. Cargo pants, Jackie Kennedy suits, handkerchief hems, asymmetrical necklines, knickers. I gave up counting the variations on schoolgirl skirts......