Blackburn + Sweetzer Has Moved

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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As longtime B+S readers will know, I am quite a fan of LA label Society for Rational Dress—the hardware and leather details, the sexy drape of silks and knits, a confident femininity that doesn’t need poufs and pink and excess to tell the story.
I would’ve never guessed a couple weeks ago when the [...]

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Thanks to writer extraordinaire Emili Vesilind for including B+S in her recent LA Times story, ‘Fashion world turns to bloggers to get the word out,’ an interesting read about the LA online landscape, which includes some of my favorite peeps (DailyCandy’s Crystal Meers and Society for Rational Dress designer Corinne Grassini, I’m looking at [...]

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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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Looks from Society for Rational Dress for Barneys; click to expand
This is exciting news—LA label Society for Rational Dress has created a two-piece collection (with more pieces to come) exclusively for Barneys.
The pieces are available at 14 Barneys Co-Ops, locally at The Grove and South Coast Plaza, and described by Senior Buyer Megan Mitchell [...]

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