Blackburn + Sweetzer Has Moved

Pay your rent or mortgage or buy a pair of Acne jeans? From Style File
— Santa Monica Looking to Raise Parking Prices / LAist
— Trunkshow LA Designer Discount Boutique opens in Santa Monica / DailyCandy
— Santa Monica moves closer to cat declawing ban / LA Unleashed
— Yum! The Smash Burger at Umami Burger / [...]

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— Shuttering Shop News—Cook’s Library Closing April 30
— Sales—Erin Wasson’s Garage Sale at Rogue Status in Venice Today!
— B+S Eats—Busy and Tasty First Night for Minestraio
— Shops—Opening Date for CB2 at 8000 Sunset
— TVs—Bania!
— Target—Rogan Rolling Out Loomstate April 19
— LA Fashion Week—BoxEight Day 2 Proves Rocky, But Captures Indie Spirit
— Shops—What Comes [...]

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Looks from Maxine Dillon; click to expand
The second and final day of BoxEight was a bit rocky in regards to the collections that were presented.
Some of the more commercial lines were solid and pleasing to the eye: Hayley Starr’s concept of the versatile dress—you can wear one of her styles in more than [...]

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Looks from COA; Smoke & Mirrors, Laeken, and Skingraft; click to expand
The first day at BoxEight continued on with the goth and grunge vibe that was so prevalent at Gen Art yesterday evening. Lots of blacks and greys (COA for guys, martinMartin for guys and gals, Skingraft for gals only); leather (Skingraft had some intricate, [...]

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Fashion folks now have the Gen Art/BoxEight fashion week lineup, along with BoxEight’s growing schedule, but while there’s still no word on designers from Downtown LA Fashion Week, CoLA—City of Los Angeles Fashion Week—has now released an intriguing designer roster of shows, which includes B.Son, Fremont, COA, Eksempel, Joyrich and Brian Lichtenberg. Per the [...]

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Click to expand the sexy!
— Jezebel thinks Vanity Fair cover is sexist / BlackBook
— LA Times, Sans “California,” plus a note from David Simon / Franklin Avenue
— Fashion week schedule at BoxEight / BoxEight
— More on Vacation record shop in Los Feliz / DailyCandy
— Corkbar opens Downtown / Thrillist
— Metallics in Milan / NYT
— Sounds [...]

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A look from Society for Rational Dress fall ‘09; a look from Raquel Allegra spring ‘09
The fate of LA Fashion Week has been looking pretty grim for sometime, but we finally get some good news from Trade Talk that three stellar LA labels—Society for Rational Dress, Raquel Allegra and Grai—will be kicking off the fall [...]

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