07
Apr 09

HERE COMES THE BRIDE

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I love it when amazing women recognize  talent in one another and work together on a project!  With this said, I was so happy to have read that Miranda July has asked Rodarte to design her wedding dress.  We have to wait until May to see the actual creation but I am sure it will be ethereal.  What will Mike Mills wear?

I also have to mention that I fell in love with Ms. July back in 2001 when she was introduced to me by filmmaker Arielle Rudin.  Can you say Joanie4Jackie?  If you are a cool girl who makes films, you want to know that site.  If you appreciate creativity then I recommend you watch Me You and Everyone You Know and read No One Belongs Here More Than You.


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24
Feb 09

FASHION AT THE HAMMER

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Last night I attended Conscientious Consumption: Sustainability and the Future of Luxury at the Hammer Museum.  The panel was moderated by Vogue Editor Sally Singer, who was wearing some amazing shoes and earrings, and featured guests Kate Mulleavy of Rodarte, Dosa founder/designer Christina Kim, the “Godfather of denim” Adriano Goldschmied, and amazing jewelry designer Tom Binns.  Though the night’s topic never truly found ground in the discourse, there was an abundance of striking statements.  Most interesting was Kate Mulleavy and Tom Binns.  Kate brought the intellect and Tom brought the hilarity.

The panel was welcomed by a packed theater, though you’d never know the crowd’s enthusiasm as smiles are rare among burgeoning fashionistas and artists who take themselves way too seriously.  Here are some quips which made the night interesting for me:

Sally Singer:  “The world doesn’t need more things…”  Everything has become “faster, cheaper and more of the same.”

Kate Mulleavy: “There is a lack of connoisseurship in fashion ….and that people are spending their money on things without meaning.”

Tom Binns: “Our idea of what is valuable is questionable.” He also made a hilarious slight about some new jewelry that he had constructed which would then be stolen/appropriated by Marc Jacobs the following day.

Adriano Goldschmied: Suggested that we’d revert to “jeans that we’re familiar with.” He used jeans as an analogy to describe how we run to our mothers during tough times. Due to our economic decline, he predicted our jeans will become loose and much more comfortable again.



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30
Jan 09

SEE YOU THERE / THE HAMMER

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MONDAY FEBRUARY 23, 2009 – 7 PM

Conscientious Consumption: Sustainability and the Future of Luxury

Los Angeles has always been the fashion world’s barometer of lifestyle shifts. Sally Singer, the fashion news and features director of Vogue, asks four leading Los Angeles designers about their strategies, aesthetics, and philosophies in response to extraordinary environmental and economic changes. What is the modern relationship between the ethical and the luxurious (for designer and consumer)? Singer will be joined by renowned jewelry designer Tom Binns; the “Godfather of Denim” and Goldsign designer, Adriano Goldschmied; Dosa founder and designer, Christina Kim; and Laura and Kate Mulleavy, the design duo behind Rodarte. The discussion will be followed by a Q & A session.

I AM FILLED WITH ANTICIPATION!  SEE YOU THERE!


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07
Nov 08

SEE YOU THERE…

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Tonight Paper Magazine will host its second annual 24 hour Department Store in L.A.  Read more here.


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27
Oct 08

Trick or Treat

Halloween is my favorite holiday, so every day this week I’ll bring you something spooky, witchy, or ghostly.  If it is black, ripped or webbed you bet it will be on my radar until the 31st and probably there on after, because that is simply my style.  I love the Mulleavy sisters of Rodarte and am dying to know what they’ll be doing this Halloween.

What are you going to be for Halloween?


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03
Oct 08

California Dreamin'

What do all my favorite designers have in common?  THEY ARE ALL FROM CALIFORNIA! I have anticipated this entry because I feel like this fact too often goes under the radar.  What we do hear is that L.A. Fashion Week is a joke [mostly true] and that NYC is the fashion capital of the world.  Well, where would that city be without all of our California natives?

California, particularly L.A., has received a bad wrap in regards to its fashion choices, but there is no denying that these talents have made the Fashion Intel proud.  In addition, I would like to point out that some of the best fashion bloggers, Because I’m Addicted, Chictopia, Diabolina, Fashion Toast, Karla’s Closet, Taghrid and That’s Chic are ALL California girls.

Now that fashion month is winding down, I wanted to share which looks inspired me during New York Fashion Week from my favorite [Californian] designers.  You can count that this Spring [I know Winter hasn't even started!!!!] I will be wearing my hair in a bun and touting ruffles, black, gray and bondage heels.

Here is a breakdown, if you were wondering more specifically where these designers came from: Vena Cava [South Pasadena], Erin Fetherston [Piedmont, UC Berkeley grad], Jenni Kayne [Los Angeles], Phillip Lim [Westminster, Long Beach State Grad], Rodarte [Nor Cal, Pasadena, UC Berkeley grads], Alexander Wang [San Francisco]


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12
Sep 08

Falling for Rodarte

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The sisters of Rodarte, as you may know, make some of the most beautiful clothes on Earth.  If I were to become a model today, that would definitely be one of the runway shows I wouldn’t mind falling in, because at least I would do it in the most lovely ensemble ever.  Catch model Abbey Lee take a spill after she passes the catwalk, located on the right hand side of the video.


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