By Editors on November 6, 2009
Our friends at A.P.C. just tipped us off on its first overstock sale in L.A. Looks like the event will offer more than the jeans that 80% of Manhattanites now wear on a daily basis. Here are the details (note that the sale is downtown not at the brand’s off-Melrose boutique:
A.P.C. Overstock Sale
Saturday November 14th & Sunday November 15th, 10am – 6pm each day
715 S Los Angeles St (cross street is 7th), downtown
Women’s, Men’s, and Accessories up to 75% off
MasterCard, Visa, American Express, JCB and cash accepted
Stock will be replenished daily.
For more information, call (323) 297-0414
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By Emili Vesilind on November 6, 2009
These blindingly reflective nails belong to Katy Perry — and were shot at the MTV Europe Video Music Awards a couple of nights ago (where she was the, um, host).
What do you think? Like a magpie, I’m drawn to the hyper-sparkliness, but then they do feel a little Lee Press On-style tacky. And talk about high-maintenance! No doubt, some nail minion spent hours gluing on each and every fleck of sequins.
I think I’ll stick with my tailored-looking slate gray for fall. What nail color will you be hopelessly devoted to this season?
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By Emili Vesilind on November 5, 2009
Part II of Jeffrey Sebelia for Fluxus news: The L.A. brand, which recently brought on Sebelia as designer, is opening a store at the Brentwood Gardens complex (11677 San Vicente Blvd., Suite 109) on Nov. 14. Sebelia will be on hand from 1 to 4 p.m. to greet customers and well-wishers.
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By Emili Vesilind on November 4, 2009
Current/Elliott, Oliver Peoples, Kinara Spa, Black Halo, Michael Kors and Free People will be among the 40 deeply discounted brands at the first L.A. shopping event Billion Dollar Babes has thrown in eons.
The membership-only fashion company will be returning to its live-sale roots this weekend by throwing a two-day sale at the Petersen Automotive Museum (6060 Wilshire Blvd). And if it ends up being anything like the old sales the company used to throw — where you could pick up designer jeans for $30 — it’s definitely worth your time.
There’s a VIP shopping day on Friday, Nov. 6, from 12 p.m. to 9 p.m.
But if you didn’t get an invite to that, Saturday is a come-one-come-all day with free admission, open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. But you must RSVP to get in on the action:
Visit www.billiondollarbabes.com/events.html.
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By Editors on November 4, 2009
Michael Cieply has a great piece in today’s NYT on the upcoming closure of Orso, one of L.A.’s longtime power lunch titans, where boxy pinstripe suits and CLK 320s were in no short supply. The West Third Street institution, which opened more than 20 years, is set to close on Nov. 21 (the New York and London locations will remain open).
Of the restaurant’s demise, Cieply writes: “Orso was hurt when the Creative Artists Agency and International Creative Management moved into Century City office towers, shifting the center of gravity for their lunch sessions westward to new hot spots like Craft. And it lost a mainstay when the nearby New Line Cinema — once the biggest house account — cut hundreds of employees in a corporate restructuring.”
Cieply also pointed out what any Angeleno foodie who has ever clutched a pack of Parliament Lights long knew about Orso: a “policy that allowed both the famous and the less so to light up in the privacy of the high-walled patio, even as other places clamped down on tobacco. ‘It was a great place to take actors, because you could smoke outside,’ said a film executive, who did not want to be identified for fear of earning the wrath of less understanding nonsmokers.” —Paul Dexter
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By Emili Vesilind on November 3, 2009
Jeffrey Sebelia, the L.A. designer who won the third season of Project Runway, has reportedly shuttered his longtime label, Cosa Nostra, and signed on as head designer of an L.A. brand called Fluxus, according to WWD.
The line is stocked at Atrium and Saks, and prices range from $66 to $300. Sebelia “revamped Fluxus’ lineup for spring with special wax treatments, sheer Modal and black stripe burnout.”
I know Cosa Nostra had been struggling for a while — the zipper-ladden, rock-inspired collection isn’t for everyone (in fact, it’s for the very few), and after the recession kicked in, it really hit a wall. Here’s hoping Sebelia’s new project stays afloat.
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By Emili Vesilind on November 1, 2009
Taking the crown — at least in my mind — for best Halloween costume of the season is Adam Tschorn, fashion staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, who dressed up as Zach Galifianakis in The Hangover. Baby Bjorn included.
Tschorn nabbed the same graphic t-shirt Galifianakis wore in the movie, and halfway through his own Halloween party, switched out the baby doll for the same army-green man bag the actor wore in the film. Now that’s dedication.
What getup gets your vote for best costume of the season? Send a picture and we just might post!
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By Emili Vesilind on October 29, 2009
Our friends at RackedLA took some photos of the gruesome scene erected inside Marc by Marc Jacobs’ front window on Melrose Ave.
Not sure what’s gone awry in the House of Sunshine, but Racked reports that there is “a headless mannequin in a bikini with a rifle; the Hollywood sign in flames; devilish figures; disembodied hands; and smiling, flayed dudes who look like Bodyworlds rejects.”
Disturbing, indeed.
Photos Courtesy of RackedLA.
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By Emili Vesilind on October 29, 2009
By Emili Vesilind on October 29, 2009
This is so distressing. Josh Woodward, co-owner of the Table 8 and 8 oz. Burger restaurants (there’s an 8 oz. Burger on Melrose Ave.) was arrested in Los Angeles and booked for the murder of his unborn child on Sunday. The release on the LAPD website reveals that there were “suspicious circumstances of a miscarriage” in the 13th week of pregnancy. He’s currently being held, with bail set for $2 million.
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