November 2011
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Come see Pretty Genius at A Current Affair vintage... →
This past summer, I wrote a little somethin’ on the slew of cool downtown L.A. boutiques for LA Magazine. And I got to follow up the story with a segment on ABC’s Eye On L.A. I thank my mother and the man who once sold me bootleg ADD medication for being the only people to send me congratulatory texts after the show aired.
March 2011
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I will live here one day
I just got back from spending eight days in Palm Springs, where I was covering Fashion Week El Paseo for Palm Springs Life Magazine. Sure, it wasn’t Lanvin. But the week of shows, which this year included presentations from Trina Turk, Oliver Tolentino and Saks Fifth Avenue, among others, is truly the standard of how consumer-focused fashion shows should be done. Pop-up shops in the lobby....
Shameless self promotion: WWDMagic edition
Ok, not that shameless — this is my personal website, after all. But it has in fact been a very busy couple of months filled with a lot of cool happenings that I’m extremely proud to share.
First up is the WWDMagic trade show in Las Vegas that took place over Valentines Day week, which I attended after being chosen as one of 30 correspondents as part of the Teen Vogue Bloggers Lounge....
February 2011
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Happy four year anniversary to me
Four years ago I moved to L.A. after planning my escape from suburban Chicago for as long as I could remember. And I’m not sure that anything will ever match the elation I felt upon stepping outside of LAX and seeing my father waiting for me in my car. As in, my car with Illinois license plates that had been filled with my crap and shipped to California earlier that...
November 2010
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A few friends of mine started a cool website called inthemo.com, which is a social network of sorts that helps users find the best bars, restaurants and shops in cities throughout the world — mostly using video. It’s really impressive — they have a huge compound in Brentwood, their users already number in the thousands and they have over 50 people on staff. Not bad for a start up (does that...
July 2010
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