Just as the temps are soaring, allowing insouciance to creep into dressing, it seems reminders are everywhere not to let those sparkling baubles or glossy red lip tubes collect dust (just read my prior postings). Reminding me of this, albeit inadvertently, is my Spanish pal Valentin Toledo, who sent me this vid clip of the uberfabulous Mina Mazzini. Mina (first name is plenty, thank you) has been a major Italian pop star since she hit TV there in 1959, in part because of that voice. But just as much an appeal to fans were her sensual moves, that extravagantly glamorous look almost bordering on camp, or alien (bleached blonde hair, shave eyebrows), and a rebellious cigarette-waving posturing. When Italy’s major network tried to ban her from TV because she wasn’t willing to hide her pregnancy--with a married actor--her fans roared and, in no time, she was entertaining them again. Obviously, a certain Mrs. Richie has been riffing this diva’s look forever. Touche. Mina herself counts among her 76 million records sold her own version of Madonna’s “Into the Groove,” released a year after the original in 1988. Watch this clip to the very end. This summer it’s absolutely about Camp Mina.
Rose Apodaca is a pop culture and style journalist and the co-owner of A+R, the design retail lab in Los Angeles, and its online sister http://www.aplusrstore.com. She consulted on and helped launch Image, the new Los Angeles Times style section, and she contributes to Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Glamour, Style.com, Paper, Preen and other publications. Her first book, Style A to Zoe: The Art of Fashion, Beauty & Everything Glamour, an all-encompassing lifestyle guide written for celeb stylist Rachel Zoe, is now in bookstores. She is currently authoring a biography on Fred Hayman, co-founder of Giorgio Beverly Hills and marketing architect of Rodeo Drive.
A+R is located in Silverlake and now on Abbot Kinney in Venice, CA.
Rose helmed the west coast bureau of fashion-industry bible Women's Wear Daily and was a contributor to W Magazine for six years until March 2006, when she left to join partner Andy Griffith in A+R and focus on related projects. She has long championed Los Angeles and California style and design, from the streets and runways to interiors and food. She is the first recipient of the Los Angeles Fashion Awards Communications Prize for bringing global attention to the region's fashion industry and style culture. With A+R, she continues to showcase rising and undiscovered talent from around the world.
An active supporter of the arts, music and nightlife scenes, she is a co-owner of Beauty Bar Hollywood and Las Vegas, and serves on various arts organization boards. Rose and Andy, who tied the knot in September 2007, live in Silverlake.
* All photographs appearing on this blog were snapped by Rose with her Leica D-Lux 3, unless otherwise noted. Please credit all photographs accordingly.
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I love Peggy...and I loved Bill. Yes, let's see where this ship takes us. xx
Oct 03, 2008 10:16 PM
love a+r! stumbled into it today by chance. you have amazing taste.
Oct 02, 2008 6:10 PM
Hi there!
Due to a bug in the Uber messaging system, I'm really sorry (I won't do it again! I ain't no spammer!) but I have to use the comment system to let you know this:
First Article on Uber Electronica: Mushi Music!
Check out my first article on Uber Electronica!
It's about one of our fellow Uber members: Mushi Music! An original musician to discover, for sure someone to get inspiration from and to follow.
It's here: www.icesixxx.com/theelectronicagrou p
Ice ;-)
PS: watcha still doing here?! Go!
Sep 29, 2008 6:57 PM
Hey Rose! I'll be in touch via the regular email and PLEASE do the same. Been nice connecting again, here at Uber. Sending you great vibes for all current and future writing and fashion endeavors! xoxo
Sep 29, 2008 3:52 AM
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Sep 19, 2008 1:19 PM
Hi Rose - Just ordered two of your "This is not a paper cup's." Can't wait to get them. I've been looking for something designed like this for a long time. Just posted a link to the M+R site on the coffee blog I'm getting off the ground (http://smallaxecoffee.com/node/13) and am excited to post a review once they arrive.
Sep 04, 2008 8:24 AM
Hey Rose, how's it going. Remember me and you're like who and I'm like Sada's husband. Maybe Sada is easier to remember, from Action Sports, with Neil and Paul and John Stoffer. I just found Neil and saw you as a friend so thought I'd say hi. We saw your book down here in Oz (where we live now) and it was totally awesome. Hope you're well, Cya.
Aug 31, 2008 4:33 PM
we love your blog! and your barbie. you're great! xo ands & megs
Aug 27, 2008 1:34 PM
just wanted to throw an eye at you to see how you do and talk about
THE WAY OF LOVE WITH YOU (universal content design ) &
(besides i really like thoses pieces)
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13 ESV
bless you in yeshuas name, sdg, tjm
Aug 26, 2008 10:03 PM
what a totally wild and kooky video - love it, though where did you find it?!
Aug 25, 2008 5:04 AM
Omg, we love that designs, are amazing! we love your page :) xoxo Val & Ugie.
Aug 24, 2008 10:28 PM
Amazing! Nice site :)
Aug 22, 2008 10:37 PM
cool site!!
andy
Aug 22, 2008 11:16 AM
good morning Rose! I love your blog~ So happy that you are doing great~ will pop in and see you soon. Thanks for the good and obviously sad (Paul Starr) readings... lots of love tracey groce
Aug 05, 2008 4:53 AM
WOW , Nice illustration with pictures...Nice pics..
Jul 29, 2008 7:20 PM
Hi Seester...I'm an official Uberist now! Woo! Come by and see my little video that Mikiko made for Hello Butterfly! love you, Blanca
Jul 24, 2008 2:19 PM
Hi!
I'm a huge fan of Uber. I loved your post the other day about Tarina Tarantino! Anyway, I wanted to give you a heads up about a new site, ideeli, that you would enjoy. I actually work for the site, and we sell really great bags and accessories at unbelievable prices. I thought you might want to check it out and see what we've got coming soon, because you (and all of us who read your blog!) should always be in the know about sites like this one. It's members-only, but if you'd like to see what's up on the site, you may use my private code: vip1. Just go to www.ideeli.com to see for yourself :) If you like the site, we'd love you to feature us, and I'd be happy to set up a special invite code for your readers - just let me know!
Best,
Allie
Jul 23, 2008 4:30 PM
hi rose ....i am a interoir designer fromindia.....m quite impressed to see ur collection .....can i buy things here in india ....do u ship in india....i have some close relatives in canada....do u ship in canda.....?
Jul 23, 2008 3:44 PM
i want your barbie. its too nice!!!
Jul 17, 2008 6:03 PM
Wow, Im so flattered and thankful that you enjoyed the show. I hope that you can make it out sometime soon to "The Bullfight " act that I do when it is booked here in town. Its pretty flamboyant , just the thing for these boring summer evenings. lol. Its always a pleasure to see you Rose. Much love, Ava Garter
Jul 16, 2008 9:56 PM
LOVING your blog! Ava looked amazing at Liz's party. She is a class act. Liz is also a dear and am dying for the shoes!
Jul 10, 2008 10:49 AM
Wow! Roger Lloyd Pack "Owen" from the Vicar of Dibley and Andy could be brothers, or at least each others Doppelgänger. Fantastic photos. Thanks for sharing these amazing images.
