Blackburn + Sweetzer Has Moved

A Look from The Battalion
— Texts and photos by Christina von Messling
Love it or hate it, one of the main characteristics of fashion coming out of LA is its lifestyle/street-style casualness and wearability. Last Thursday, three designers were showing their version of it at Downtown LA Fashion Week—dancer-inspired at The Battalion, rock references at Future [...]

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For spring 2010, designer Louis Verdad of label Louver sent a parade of cream with touches of navy and gold down the runway (black having been his hue of choice last season). But before the creamy legions made their walk, Verdad projected images of power women and icons such at Michelle Obama, [...]

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Skingraft designers Katie Kay and Jonny Cota gave us rock-edged Amelia Earhart last night at Downtown LA Fashion Week. Naming the female flying legend, and flight in general (aviation, birds) as inspiration, the label’s ‘leather-armor’ pieces (studded, pleated, tailored like a glove) were the real standouts, though leather leggings, shorts with [...]

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T by Alex Wang from The Pipeline
— Frederic Fekkai expanding Melrose Pl salon, closing in BH / Fashion Rules!
— A taste of Susan Feniger’s Street / Daily Dish/LAT
— Guess CrossFit LA is moving from La Brea to Santa Monica / Vital Juice
— New Scout in Hollywood might open this week / Twitter/joeygrana
— Origami Vinyl in [...]

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Louis Verdad’s Louver Collection; click to expand
Downtown LA Fashion Week’s MOCA presentation of Louis Verdad’s Louver collection and the vintage runway show presented by Cameron Silver, owner of the high-end vintage store Decades—he set the red carpet vintage movement in motion with the canary yellow Jean Dessès vintage gown for Renee Zellweger at the 2001 [...]

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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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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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