You may have seen silver-haired James “Jim” Goldstein around town — perhaps at a fashion show or clad in one of his signature python cowboy hats sitting courtside at a Lakers game.You’ve got the ultimate party house already, why build a nightclub?
I get requests all the time for parties here, and I’m also a person that’s been going to nightclubs all my life, so it’s something that I’ve wanted to do for a long time. Whether I end up using it a lot or not, it’s something I’ve always wanted to do: design my own nightclub.
What is the design concept?
The design reflects the overall style of the house: the use of concrete, glass, and leather as the predominate materials. I intend to carry that through the club and combine it with the latest special effects that I’ve seen in nightclubs, such as the ones in Moscow that I’ve just visited. They use some laser effects that go beyond what I’ve seen in clubs in the U.S.
Do you see a connection between fashion and architecture?
Modern houses reflect a dynamic of what’s going on today by trying to keep up with the latest in technology and design ideas. Clothes have the same dynamic, in terms of continual evolution. There is definitely a connection for me because I like to continually move forward in both areas.
Have you been hands-on in fashion design also?
I haven’t really done much in the way of my own design, other than the hats I wear that I designed. I also attempt to make adaptations sometimes from women’s clothes to something that will work for me, because men’s clothes right now are the most boring that they’ve ever been in my life. I am very excited by the Balmain clothing line right now. Although it is geared toward women, there are a few men’s pieces, but they are not anywhere near as exciting as the women’s pieces. The designer [Christophe Decarnin] really is in tune with what I like and hopefully he will start designing some things for me, and I am working in that direction.
–Hilary Scurlock
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THANK YOU for doing this interview. I see this guy everywhere but never knew who he was. I love his candid take on fashion right now.
You may describe this guy as cool and eccentric but to mobile home owners this guy is pure evil.
He makes his money from owning and converting mobile home parks and, thus, evicting mostly poor and elderly mobile home owners. Goldstein routinely asks municipal rent control boards for steep rent increases, like a 60 percent hike — at Carson Harbor Village a few years back.
Each year, the residents trudge down to City Hall to fight him. When he doesn’t get his way, he sues, and sometimes tries to pass the litigation costs to his tenants, who also say he has cut services and skimped on maintenance.
Thus, his fancy clothe, his ultimate party house home and, yes, even his courtside Lakers tickets are bought at the expense of the poor and elderly he exploits.
There is no rhyme or reason why GOD would put this kind of person here on earth. This cold and insensitive individual does infact exploit the poor and elderly and could care less. He is all about money and nothing else.
There is no evidence that he has a caring bone in his body. What he does is to steal from the poor to give to himself. He is like a bear in the woods just waiting for you to retire so that he can eat up what little you have to exist on.
I met this guy this summer at the film festival and I thought I saw Crocodilуe Dundee incarnate! Hе seemed harmless with his wrinkly skin and clothing….