Archive for April, 2009

Time Mag’s Design 100

Time Magazine's annual Style+Design issue

The latest edition of the Time Style & Design issue is out, and with it the proclamation that great design now encompasses everything from big planes to small plates.

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Tonight! Audrey Bernstein’s Sexy Bacio

XO: Audrey's at it again!

Once upon a time, there was a Les Deux Café that was the epitome of louche living, in that fabulously tarnished Hollywood sort of way. Tucked away off the boulevard, we’d spend long nights there under the jasmine in the grand patio, supping on loup de mer and rosé, our rusty folding French patio chairs bumping up against those at adjacent tables, jampacked with the likes of Kim Gordon, Sofia Coppola and then-hubby Spike Jonze (yea, that was once upon a time), Vinnie Gallo, Phillip Noyce and Rick Owens, whose other half Michelle Lamy was the grand dame of this old house-turned-hideaway.

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News Alert: Charming in The NYT Styles!

Tord Boontje's Charming Charms. Collect all 12!

The newest arrival of Tord Boontje's whimsical motifs is featured in the May 25 edition of Pulse in The New York Times!
Boontje collaborated with the L.A.-based design collective Artecnica on this latest project, and we at A+R were thrilled to give our input in the process.

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Raven Kauffman Lets it Fly

Raven Kauffman

For all the ballyhoo about It bags, I’ve rarely if ever found any of the hyper-touted totes that are really, truly, well, It. They’re either dated before they hit the shelves, or so festooned with distinguishing lariats, studs, bells and whistles that it all comes off as a jumbled joke.

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Haute on the Heels

The handstitched spine of a look by Juan Carlos Obando

Lucky me. For the trunk show I hosted (last night) for bag designer Raven Kaufmann, Juan Carlos Obando transformed me into a right and proper lady for the evening with a look from his February runway show in New York-custom cut and fitted for my non-sample-size frame.

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Happy Earth Day

When Jeremy Scott Attacks: Dress (seen below) after the designer got to it.

Is it having the Obamas in the White House that has seemingly everyone thinking out of the box with their inspired Earth Day celebrations?

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T is for Timber, Of a Sort

Sebastian E's Plywood Chair

The Design edition of The New York Times T Magazine is out. On the way to Coachella yesterday, the mag made for useful reading. While we already carry many of the newest items featured, including the Future Flora lamps, as always we devoured the features and delicious photography.

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Rachel Pally to a Tee

Sophia Bush

Rachel Pally can drape and shape jersey like the best of them. Like Norma Kamali did years before Rachel was even born, the young L.A. designer gives the stuff T-shirts are made of a new reference, and a pretty glam one at that.

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A Diamond Dog’s Life

Constance Cooper

The club name might be Bowie, but from the platinum-haired seductress on the invite to the platinum insouciance of the crowd, the vision inspiring the new Thursday night club at H’wood called Diamond Dogs is pure Roxy Music.

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Arlo Weiner, Boy Brummel

Only 8 and dressed to the nines, Arlo Weiner

It's not the first story on pint-sized dandy Arlo Weiner, but today's feature on the 8-year-old "clothespony" of 'Mad Men' creator Matthew Weiner and architect Linda Brettler in The Los Angeles Times' Image section, is as entertaining to read as its subject is to watch (and gape I did when writer Adam Tschorn pointed him out to me at a recent party).

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L.A.’s Valentine to Valentino

Valentino Garavani

As Gwyneth Paltrow kept a legion of photographers clamoring over there, Anne Hathaway passed another throng of flickering press, arm in arm with the true superstar who merited all of this wildly unfamiliar pomp and circumstance Wednesday evening at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Valentino Garavani.

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The Crusty Edge

Hysterica Dance Company

Connecting the dots of a developing cultural trend is an irresistible compulsion that I can at least write off as part of the job.
So even if the link ties only two points (as of yet, at least), spotting the reference to "crust" as inspiration for two parties in two very different arenas, and different parts of the globe, seemed like the start of something.

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