Blackburn + Sweetzer Has Moved

Chili Addiction on La Cienega soft opens today! / Eater LA; previously
Wow, 1,000 City Hall layoffs / LAist
Radio star: The Sartorialist will be on KCRW today at 2:30pm / The Spiel
Christian Audigier Ed Hardy-s up a Marc Jacobs bag, gets sued / The Cut
Amazing rainbows yesterday all over the city caught through a beautiful lens [...]

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An Esquivel boot from fall/winter 2010, from Hypebeast
— Ed Hardly? Audigier to debut new flash-free fashions / All the Rage
— Esquivel Shoes fall/winter preview / Hypebeast
— Trina Turk, 15 years young / All the Rage
— At the Peninsula, Strike a pose like a Hollywood starlet / All the Rage
— Vanity Fair Announces Its Oscar App [...]

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I’m not sure when it happened, but men’s and women’s boutique YellowMan at 110 South Robertson Boulevard has closed. When people think of tattooed tigers prowling across T-shirts, Ed Hardy appears like a vision you can’t shake, but YellowMan founder Peter Mui was creating a ‘tattoo lifestyle’ before Christian Audigier with his brand of ‘wearable [...]

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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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Airy spring 2010 trends from CAN
— Fred Armisen at Cinefamily August 2 / Cinefamily
— The Bazaar’s Secret Sherry Society / Pocket Lint
— Did you notice Confederacy now has ecommerce? / ShopConfederacy.com
— Liking the Timberland Oxford heels / The Pipeline
— Spring 2010 Forecast: Light As Air / CAN
— Barnes & Noble now has free wi-fi / [...]

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It’s as if Christian Audigier (who, apparently is moving into Michael Jackson’s home) and L. Ron Hubbard were maniacally laughing from their respective lairs: “Nice try, suckers! You thought you could leave us in LA? You think our cult-ish following stops at the city limits? Not so, not so…”
Right on Wisconsin in Georgetown is an [...]

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Audi chalk ad Downtown from Blogdowntown
— All those roving food trucks / Tasting Table
— KULTURAs Bookstore shutters in Santa Monica / SM Daily News
— Pop-Ups: A Preview of Claw Money’s Fred Segal Stash / Racked LA
— Sad, Farrah Fawcett died / TMZ
— Next Big Trend: Ads on the Sidewalk? / Blogdowntown
— ‘Your Bright Future’ at [...]

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Esquivel Shoes for women from JC Report
— Ado Italian Restaurant Opens in Venice / DailyCandy
— Umami Burger expanding? / Eating LA
— Online Sale Sites Experiencing Growth in a Slow Economy / CAN
— George Esquivel Embraces the Feminine / JC Report
— JCTV Asks: What Is The Most Stylish Thing About Los Angeles? / JC Report
— Iconix [...]

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— Eats—Plywood Erected at Former Doughboys Space
— Drinks—Ed Hardy Rose or Chardonnay, Anyone…Anyone?
— Sales—Jamie Joseph Jewelry at Persimmon Saturday
— Eco—Alternative Earth Launchs ‘Think Earth’ Campaign at Sunset Marquis
— Target—Loomstate Preview in Venice
— Shop-In-Shops—Alexander Wang at Opening Ceremony
— Shops—Palmela G. Swimwear Taking Known LA Space
— Shops—The Green Easy, Medical Marijuana Purveyor
— Shops—The Scout, Cerre, [...]

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In case tattoo-printed tees and hoodies aren’t enough for you, you can actually drink Ed Hardy. Yesterday, at Whole Foods at West 3rd and Fairfax, I witnessed the offload of dozens of bottles of Ed Hardy Rose and Chardonnay heading for the shelves and stockroom. Is it bejeweled and bedazzled? I wasn’t there [...]

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Madonna in ad campaign for Louis Vuitton, shot at Le Figaro in Los Feliz
I’m just not feeling this collab. My Fashion Life reports that Madonna will be teaming up with LA’s Christian Audigier to do a collection for Audigier’s Ed Hardy label:
“Madge who considers Audiger to be a true fashion innovator was wooed by [...]

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DWR Kitchen debuts in NYC; click to expand
— DWR now does kitchens / Design Notes/DWR
— Macy’s cutting 7,000 jobs / Bloomberg
— Jason Wu pieces now avail at Satine on West 3rd / Satine
— Charlotte Ronson’s collection for JC Penney now avail / Nitrolicious
— Sweets for the Sweet: L.A. Valentine Dessert Roundup / LAist
— There’s now [...]

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