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Sewing up Echo Park: Endovanera's David Hershberger

Undercover Empire: Endovanera's Front St. in Echo Park

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It’s almost as if David Hershberger and Mitch Moseley, the forces behind the men’s clothing line Endovanera, don’t want you to find their shop. It’s tucked beneath an underpass in Echo Park, and except for a small wooden sign that ambiguously reads “Front St.,” propped casually at the bottom corner......
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Jennifer Egan

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At 26, Jennifer Egan thought she was on her way to the proverbial big time. She had her own huge office downtown and jet-setted to New York and to Rome on a monthly basis for the corporate telecommunications job she got right out of college. But when the company folded......
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MoJow & the Vibration Army

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It was a memorable sight, like a Black Rock City version of the Saint Paddy’s Day parade: a 6-foot-8 redheaded man in a bright-green jump suit, like a leprechaun on steroids, with looping pedals belted around his waist. He’s playing a guitar, with a saxophone hanging behind his back. Improbably,......
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Rami Kashou

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L.A. fans of this season’s Project Runway hoped hometown boy Rami Kashou would beat out the cocky and overly fierce Christian Siriano for the final win. Days before the final episode aired, we caught up with a calm Kashou via phone, so that Bravo reps could listen in on the......

Trash and Class

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What’s a VIP to do without a VIP tent? Gone was the traditional celebrity secure zone from this year’s Fashion Week at Smashbox Studios in Culver City. Missing were most of the seat stealers and so-called stylists; in their place were more press and buyers and industry folk. Even the......
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SMASHBOX final days

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Check out next week's LA Weekly for continued Smashbox coverage: including, Evidence of Evolution, JEREMY SCOTT and PETRO ZILLIA! www.laweekly.com......

Rags to Riches

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“Are you a smoker?” The suit-wearing doorman at the Peterson Automotive Museum wouldn’t allow us inside for the Gen Art Fresh Faces fashion show and party up on the roof until we answered the question. Some people seemed afraid to declare themselves smokers — would an affirmative answer bar you......

Little Old Lady Power

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As I drive around what’s left of Venice’s Lincoln Place apartments, sunshine glistens over the massive 38-acre complex, burnishing the broken windows, peeling paint, boarded-up entrances and miles of chainlink fence. As cheesy as it may sound, hope, the kind you find in a movie’s happy ending, is in the......
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Whitley Kros, Beck and Juliette Lewis

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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......

Royal Welding

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The first time I hear about King Baby jewelry, it’s through my uncle, who has organized a family vacation with his kids in Las Vegas. Such a man is my uncle. I fly into Sin City to join our families, and my uncle picks me up in his Lincoln Navigator......