Blackburn + Sweetzer Has Moved

— Eats—Name of La Brea Dining Restaurant Revealed
— Shuttering Shop News—Borders La Cienega Has Its Last Day
— Shops—Anticipating Alexander Wang at Opening Ceremony
— Shops—Beverly Connection Gets a Trim
— Real Estates—Shaved and Shredded at Former Pixie Market Space
— Shuttering Shop News—Fornarina, MM Melrose Project
— Bags—Clare Vivier Restocks Target’s Red Shop with Textural Clutches
— Shops—Who What Where…Can’t Wait! [...]

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Clare Vivier adds the cross-body Mini Sac to her offerings, from the designer’s blog
— L.A.’s latest storm brings heavy flooding / LAT
— Check out Vivier’s new Mini Sac in red, camel and black / Clare Vivier; previously
— Conan and NBC Finalize Their Divorce / Gawker
— Draft Plan to Lay Off 1,000 City of L.A. Employees [...]

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You can count the ways in which I love designer Clare Vivier’s handbags—literally, starting back last March at a trunk show at Taylor de Cordoba gallery, and then onward, I fell in love with La Trop, obsessed over the navy messenger bag, dreamed of outfitting my MacBook with a suede Vivier sleeve, and then, boom!, [...]

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Get Clare Vivier’s clutch here!
— Clare Vivier’s clutch now avail via Target’s Red Hot Shop / See Vivier
— Battling a beard-ette, hilarious / Style Section LA
— M Cafe’s ‘Little m’ debuts today in Beverly Hills / Daily Dish
— BabyCakes Now Open on 6th Street / Blogdowntown
— Lot B closing at LAX / LA Observed
— Food [...]

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— Clare Vivier does a clutch for Target’s ‘Red Hot Shop’ launching Jan 1! / See Vivier
— Kiki de Montparnasse pop up at Mondrian Hotel / All the Rage
— The 11 Sexiest Editorials From 2009 / Refinery 29
— LAT’s Lakers Blog Loses Blogging Brothers to ESPNLA.com / Fishbowl LA
— LAX flight schedule back to normal [...]

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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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Clare Vivier will be participating in the Community Shop, can’t wait to see her chic laptop cases she’s collabed with Commune for the event! For now, the navy Vivier bag I am still pining after
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21
WHO: Pegah Anvarian
WHAT: Tent sale, featuring 300-plus dresses, $50 each from XS to XL; cash only
WHERE: 7340 Lampson Avenue, [...]

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MCM is looking lovely, from All the Rage
— Jobless rate tops 10% for first time since 1983 / LAT
— How to write a great novel / WSJ
— BLD spiked milkshakes recipes! / Squid Ink
— Holt Renfrew, now LA designer Clare Vivier sends off to Steven Alan / See Vivier
— Apartment 3 has closed its boutique, [...]

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Love the Pendleton/Opening Ceremony coat shown left…but at $500 and with short sleeves not exactly practical, from The Pipeline
— Downtown Fashion Walk in tonight / Downtown Fashion Walk
— Negotiating the Downtown Art Walk / Style Section LA
— Rock Fashion Week moves venues to Peterson Auto Museum / CAN
— Tour of the Ed Hardy warehouse / [...]

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— Pets—Adorable Shep-Hound (Or Bass-Herd) Needs a Home
— Eats—Doughboys Reveals Its New Exterior
— Shops—Culver City’s Rolling Greens Nursery Expanding to Beverly Boulevard
— Eats—Butcher Shop/Cafe Salt’s Cure to Open Early 2010
— Causes—What a Croc, Leslie Mann, Lacoste and ‘Vogue’ Get Pink
— Causes—Breast Cancer Awareness, Flowers to Travel Cases Make an Impression
— Shop In Shops—More [...]

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Hot on the heels of her kudos from LA Weekly, LA handbag and accessories designer Clare Vivier lures me once again. My La Tropezienne has been in my clutches (literally, I take it everywhere) since I picked it up at Vivier’s house in June, and has garnered endless compliments and ‘where-did-you-get-that?’ stoppings on the street [...]

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Stella McCartney’s gorgeous spring 2010 collection, from WWD
— Yes! Stella McCartney spring 2010! / WWD
— Clare Vivier handbags in LA Weekly ‘best of’ / LA Weekly; previously
— Kudos for the Little Next Door / Style Section LA
— Disappointment at Rockwell in Los Feliz / Let Me Eat Cake
— MIA at Atwater Village Farmer’s Market / [...]

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