Category Archives: Fashion

Finn is In!! – - Marimekko Flagship Store Opens in Beverly Hills

A Marimekko Flagship store opened on November 15, 2012! The new store is located at the corner of Canon and Brighton Way in Beverly Hills. Marimekko is a Finnish company that started out as a dress company. Even the name, Marimekko, … Continue reading

Posted in Fashion, Shopping | Leave a comment

The LA Beat Interview: Rolling Stone Photographer Baron Wolman Talks About His Life, Photography and The Opening of His New Gallery in Los Angeles

As a kid growing up in the outer reaches of LA County during the 1960’s there were only a few avenues by which news of the musical and cultural revolution that was taking place in nearby (but often unreachable) Los … Continue reading

Posted in Art, Books, Events, Fashion, History, Interviews, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Movember

Today is the first day of the rest of your facial hair.  At least for the month of November, I mean Movember. Have you heard of breast cancer awareness, or autism awareness? Most of us have.  They have pink ribbons … Continue reading

Posted in Beauty, Events, Fashion, Health, Miscellaneous, News, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Life Rolls on in Style at the Sugar Spun Benefit!

Jesse Billauer should have been a professional surfer. His surfing career was blossoming when, in 1996, he sustained a spinal cord injury while surfing a local beach. His neck may have been broken, but not his fight and spirit to … Continue reading

Posted in Beauty, Events, Fashion | Leave a comment

Street Artists Support Keeping a Breast!

This is what happens when you take plaster casts of female American Rag Employees and ask some of the hottest Los Angeles Street artist to decorate the casts. The venerable street art gallery Lab Art Los Angeles was the host … Continue reading

Posted in Art, Events, Fashion, Photo Essays | Leave a comment

Upcoming: Vintage Clothing and Costume Sale

The community theatre group, Kentwood Players, will be holding a costume and vintage clothing sale on Saturday, September 29 from 7:30am to 3:00pm at the Westchester Playhouse. There are outfits for just about every possible Halloween costume including “vintage pieces … Continue reading

Posted in Events, Fashion, Theater | Leave a comment

Betsey Johnson at The Grove

I used to live near Betsey in the East Village way back when. Almost every day, she’d cheerily say, “Hi!” to me on the street. I was thrilled. I mean-Betsey Johnson! Betsey, the only one ever to make Edie Sedgwick … Continue reading

Posted in Fashion | 2 Comments

New York’s Hester Street Fair is Back!

Hester Street Fair debuted in June with the Bite Size Food and Craft Festival. Now it’s back with the Hollywood Indie Night Market on July 7, 2012. The show will include more than 100 carefully curated West coast apparel, accessory, and lifestyle merchants “…all who … Continue reading

Posted in Art, Events, Fashion, Food, Shopping | 1 Comment

A Frightening Thing I Found in My Inbox

Posted in Events, Fashion | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

The Ivy Shades Collection

In September 2010, The Ivy Shades Eyewear line debuted its first collection in Houston. A longtime aficionado of fashion and eyewear, she created the brand unexpectedly from a personal pair of shades that she enhanced with gold chains to wear … Continue reading

Posted in Events, Fashion | Leave a comment