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Get prettied up for all of the holiday parties on your agenda this season. Embellished hair accessories can transform your evening look from ordinary to fabulous. Wear your favorite LBD with a dramatic hair ornament for an instant dash of glam. The hair accessories featured here can work with most [...]

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Stanley lunch box cooler set, simple, cool, functional design, from Blackbird
— Angelyne sues city over missed fan mail / LA Observed
— LAT loses its real estate blog / LA Observed
— Heikes hiring at LA Weekly / LA Observed
— Eva gets 2 1/2 stars, Sunday dinner sounds awesome / LAT
— William Rast opens three West Coast [...]

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Taylor from ‘The Rachel Zoe Project,’ from HiStyley
— Rainstorm to hit LA Tuesday / LAT
— Pasadena’s Vroman’s to buy Book Soup / LA Observes
— Lunch at Eva on Beverly Boulevard / Eating LA
— Get Back on Track with Brats and Beer at Rush Street / Squid Ink
— Fred Segal Flair closing in Santa Monica / [...]

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Better Shelter home in Silver Lake is lovely, lovely! From Apartment Therapy
— CFDA/Vogue Announce 2009 Fashion Fund Finalists / Style.com
— Better Shelter’s Silver Lake Cottage Makeover / Apartment Therapy
— Love it, Mason by Michelle Mason Fall 2009 / The City Sage
— Forever 21 starting makeup line / StyleCaster
— How to sew an exposed zipper / [...]

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— Neighborhoods—12th Annual Art & Design Walk Saturday
— Shops—Third Medical Marijuana Dispensary for West 3rd Street
— Shops—Lotta Stensson Moving From Melrose to West 3rd Street
— Eats—Home Cafe Replacing Pastis on Beverly
— Shops—Former Maxfield-ers Opening Church on Santa Monica Boulevard
— Shops—Rock & Republic’s Glossy Robertson Finish
— Eats—Minestraio’s $12.99 Three-Course Lunch Special
— Fast Fashions—Forever 21’s 8TEE4 [...]

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Forever 21 has been busy launching new lines these days—its plus-size Faith 21, and even more recently, new contemporary line Love 21. Love 21 seemed to get a fair amount of online press, but what intrigued me more was the launch of 8TEE4, a collection of American Apparel-esque basics, including burnout tanks, tees [...]

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Matthew Williamson for H&M from Racked LA
— Los Angeles Magazine to Mayor Villaraigosa: FAIL / LAist
— New Website Connects LA Councilmembers to Campaign Donors / LAist
— Trovata Fights Forever 21 With Music / The Cut
— Crowds at Matthew Williamson’s Second H&M Launch / Racked LA
— Alexa Chung and Tennessee Thomas in Wren’s Lookbook / The [...]

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Today’s the day when Forever 21’s plus-size collection, Faith 21, hits stores and online, and based on the traffic I’ve received from the first post—many people Google searching, as well as links from Forever 21’s press page—this is a much-anticipated launch, filling a gap in the market, and not only for shoppers you [...]

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Professional Singer sewing machine from Urban Outfitters
— Free exams at Wallis Annenberg Children & Family Health Ctr / Vital Juice
— Mmm, 2009 Grilled Cheese Invitational! / Evil Monito
— L.A. Unified moves to cut 5,000 teachers and others / LAT
— Love this Singer sewing machine / Urban Outfitters
— Spring shades / The Pipeline
— Bravo to launch [...]

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Copy Collection at Kingsbury
— The new Ed Hardy Outlet and other stores Downtown / LA Downtown News
— Segway PUMA takes to the streets / TreeHugger
— Beauty vending machine at Fred Segal / DailyCandy
— DailyCandy enters into video / DailyCandy
— Men’s Copy Collection at Kingsbury /Thrillist
— Miss Trish of Capri for Target now avail / Target
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Besides looking fantastic—she pulls off challenging horizontal black-and-white stripes and flat mid-calf boots—Satine owner Jeannie Lee gave me the scoop on her latest designing and business endeavors at last night’s Monocle opening at the Brentwood Country Mart.
Along with her recent collabs—Shibuya Mon Amour tees for Forever 21 and the Bacini lingerie line for Anthropologie—Lee has [...]

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Click to expand; looks from Faith 21 from All the Rage
Fashion press is taking note that Cali-based fast fashion retailer Forever 21 is launching a plus-sized line, Faith 21, on May 1 at Lakewood Center Mall, Montebello Town Center, Los Cerritos Mall, Anaheim Plaza and online. All the Rage reports the line, ranging from $3.50-$34.80, [...]

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