Category Archives: Media/Publishing

A Front Row Seat

Speaking of Paris fashion week… Kirstin Sinclair’s book, A Front Row Seat which came out in December is a fun romp through all the great fashion week angles we love. From backstage to the front row and the streets overflowing … Continue reading

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Vanity Fair, Campaign Hollywood

Vanity Fair is rolling out the magazine’s annual week-long cocktail fest leading up to the Oscars for the 13th season and doing all kinds of fun things online for the occasion with their newly launched site where they will present … Continue reading

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City of Style by Melissa Magsaysay

LA Times‘ fashion editor (and fellow former WWD fashion editor) Melissa Magsaysay has a new book coming out that she wrote and our friend Donato Sardella photographed. I am so excited for her! Nothing cooler than your first book, congratulations! … Continue reading

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Fifth Avenue, 5AM

In between holiday dinners and parties last week and this weekend I finally got to reading Sam Wasson‘s book that’s been sitting on my nightstand forever. Fifth Avenue 5AM came out in 2010 and that’s how long I’ve been trying … Continue reading

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The Farley Project

My friend Elissa Kravetz recently launched The Farley Project an anti-bullying initiative which is the topic of the day with everyone from Christina Aguilera to Lady Gaga promoting their own ‘accept & love everyone as they are’ causes, which there … Continue reading

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The Fashion Pictures, St.Petersburg with Deborah Turbeville

This started out as a post on Arcana Books , which has one of the best collections of art, fashion and photography books on the West Coast and an obvious choice for gift shopping but then it turned into a … Continue reading

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Pretty Much Everything

This month Taschen is releasing Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin’s new photography book, Pretty Much Everything ($700, who said books are cheap gifts? Now that is a freakin’ cool holiday gift for someone you love!) Looking through it is … Continue reading

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Vivian Maier, Street Photographer

Vivian Maier belongs in the same camp as Robert Frank, Helen Levitt, Dorothea Lange and Henri Cartier Bresson, the only difference is that she worked as a nanny by day and a photographer only when time allowed, by day or … Continue reading

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Caulfield’s Opening Night, Rose Apodaca’s New Book

Last night at Caulfield’s inside The Thompson Beverly Hills, a flock from LA’s art and fashion world gathered to celebrate the opening of Beverly Hills’ newest dinner and drinks haunt and to toast one of my favorite fashion editors’ new … Continue reading

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Lana Del Ray in Wonderland

My favorite songstress of the moment Lana Del Ray just bagged her first magazine cover (of what I am sure will be many) for Wonderland Magazine. Bets on her opening the spread of Elle’s next music issue, I’m sure Joe … Continue reading

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