Category: Los Angeles
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Style Speaks with Kristin Vartan: Demobaza brings Dystopian Cool to the LAFW runway
Written by Kristin Vartan Demobaza christens their clothes, the “reconstructed uniform.” One look at their Spring/Summer 2024 collection at LAFW, and you’ll know they favor rebellion over conformity. “It’s fresh it’s new, and they don’t conform to any kind of fashion that’s going on at the moment,” music artist, Goldiie Lux told Style Speak’s Kristin…
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Advisry Goes Back To Its Roots at LAFW
Keith Herron’s roots run deep in Sacramento. The City of Trees after all, is where the designer grew up. It’s also where Herron launched his fashion label, Advisry.
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Inside Ralph Lauren’s First Runway Show on the West Coast
The Ralph Lauren Spring 2023 show was a love letter to California, written in a different font than you may have imagined for the brand’s first West Coast Show “I have always been inspired by the natural beauty, the heritage, and glamour of the West Coast of America. California has always been a land of…
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Inside Louis Vuitton’s 200 Trunks, 200 Visionaries Exhibit in Beverly Hills
Fitting two hundred candles on a birthday cake is an ambitious ask. But building a cake for someone’s 200th birthday out of 31,700 Lego bricks, is achievable after 50 hours, with the ingenuity of a luxury house’s French atelier and seven children. The innocence of youth is a protection from envisioning obstacles or barriers. So…
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Dior x ERL & Fendace make fashion-forward mark in LA
The past week was an exercise in keeping up with the [Kim] Jones’–collaborations, that is. From Venice Beach to Beverly Hills the creative director of both Dior Men and Fendi took over the Los Angeles County fashion scene by style storm: A tale of two cities and brand identities: The Dior Men and ERL Resort…
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THE ’90S SUIT WITH A TWIST | ON-CAMERA STYLE
It was the best of times, it was the simplest of times: The ‘90s. The finale to the 20th century was also the era I was born. The prologue to the new millennia was full of minimalist fashion. But it wasn’t this concept of doing “without” something. The neutral pinstripe suits with high-waist trousers, that…
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Gucci Goes Hollywood: A Look Inside the “Gucci Love Parade”
Hollywood Boulevard, a sidewalk with stars that line a street of dreams. These are the aspirations, realized, cemented into the ground iconizing actors and musicians who have “made it.” The Walk of Fame also represents the hopes of aspiring creatives and legends in the making. As Creative Director of Gucci, Alessandro Michele points out in…
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PRINCESS DIANA OFF-DUTY STYLE | THE CHIC LIST
Princess Diana was known as the “People’s Princess.” She was a combination of relatable and aspirational in the way she cared about others and the way she dressed. I’ll never forget seeing a picture of her for the first time amongst my mother’s mementos in my grandparent’s house. I was about eight years old, and…
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summer Loungewear you can take from home to town after the pandemic
*Come back for new posts every ‘Forward-Thinker-with-a-Vintage-Soul Friday!’ Okay, I know I’ve recently made the case for off-duty style that isn’t loungewear, but in my defense this comfy set of isn’t sweats! There are ways to make laid-back look luxurious instead of lazy (and it’s totally fine to have your lazy days too, because let’s…
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Los Angeles Muralist, Ruben Rojas on His ‘You Can’t Quarantine Love’ Campaign
The city of angels is also known as the city of wall art: Crowds normally form to take photos by them, but with the sheltering-in-place order over LA, this is no longer the case. LA muralist Ruben Rojas won’t let that stop him from spreading hope through his craft. On this week’s episode of Keeping it…
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