Blackburn + Sweetzer Has Moved

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6—SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7
WHO: Electronic Waste Collection Event
WHAT: OK, not a sale, but a good event! Dispose of your old Computer Monitors, Television sets, PC Systems, Printers, Laptops, Copiers, Scanners, Fax Machines, Toner Cartridges, UPS & PDAs, Power Supplies, Main Frame Units, Networking Equipment, Mother Board Systems, VCR/VCD/DVD Players, Home Entertainment Systems, Landline and [...]

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Multicolored Graphic Penny necklace; penny studs; glossy Newton’s Cradle beads
I’ve talked about her before—jewelry designer, stylist and all-around very cool woman Racquel Honoré. Her latest ANKH by Racquel Honoré collection is dubbed MMX (that’s 2010 for all you Roman numeral-challenged folks)—her muse, “a mythical time-traveling vagabond who goes back and forth in time creating adornments [...]

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Alright, I know I was just raving about my love affair with Saint Benoît Yogurt, but I would be remiss not to let you know about my financial findings yesterday at Whole Foods.
As I mentioned, you can either keep and resuse the ceramic packaging or return it to the market for a deposit, and [...]

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— Text and photos by Christina von Messling
Unique LA took place this past weekend in Downtown, and I must say it was a great experience. Since it’s the beginning of the holiday season, I was still lacking some bigger and a lot of smaller gifts, and the idea of finding something more creative than a [...]

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Every kid’s dream fort—an actual tent
Design firm Commune has collabed with a stellar list of artists to create a pop up shop, located in its 650 North Robertson Boulevard studio (an awesome space I wish I could move into), just south of Santa Monica in West Hollywood. It’s open Tuesdays and Thursday from 2pm-6pm and [...]

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— Text and photos by Keri Pina
Alternative Apparel celebrated the launch of ReThink on Thursday night in effort to raise awareness with Global Green USA—a nonprofit dedicated to finding solutions to global warming and creating green schools for today’s youth. Supporters are offered a free Global Green Think Earth Tee as a reward for charitable [...]

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Ashanti Fabrics from Viva Vena Cava
Ever since Ma Frangine emailed me the following fabric question (my apologies, it was a while ago), I’ve been avidly following the fashion blog. Always so nice when people reach out! The question?
I am looking for cool fabric shops in LA. Do you know of any good ones? I [...]

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Intriguing news on the retail front. Fashion vet Gale Parker—she was Vogue’s youngest fashion editor, a design director for Ralph Lauren women’s collection, and a muse for Valentino, Warhol and YSL—is set to open Clothespin at 8654 Melrose Avenue, on the stretch between Balenciaga and Alberta Ferretti, on November 6.
Parker, formerly married to sustainable [...]

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Eco label Popomomo presented spring 2010 on the stage of the LA Theatre, where onlookers from a circle of chairs watched models pose and tie colored tape at various angles of a contraption made of planks of wood. Dresses of hemp/organic cotton were the main event here—from the front, simple sheathes or [...]

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Romp at 7982 West 3rd Street, just west of Fairfax, is closing up shop, apparently later today. So, if you go there, like right now, you’ll find 80% off its merch—eco-luxe leather to lingerie. An email from the boutique indicates the UK-based company is relocating to NYC.

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I keep just missing Portola Paints, trying to drop by at the end of the day when it’s already closed, but the eco-minded paints and glazes shop is open at its new 8213 West 3rd Street location, next to Toast. The interior, exterior and decorative paints shop, which moved from Studio City, [...]

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I am in love with this dress. The ‘Brazil’ dress by LA label Kristinit landed in my inbox from the talented hands of LA designer Kristina Lenss, part of her LOVE campaign collection for fall, which melds sustainable fabrics with handmade lace meticulously woven by artisans in the Amazon. For me, the collection [...]

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