Billabong’s Design for Humanity
Turning the fake New York streets of Paramount’s backlot into a real block party put Billabong’s 4th annual Design for Humanity event into a whole new realm of fashion, art and performance–and a massive, fun party, heated up by the company’s hot designs. About 3,000 people filled the “streets” to see artists creating canvases, bands like Fischerspooner and Kid Sister performing and of course, a bunch of hot models...
Read Between the Lines
When it comes to love, are you a Fire, Air, Water or Earth? Author Craig Martin helps you define your style in “Elemental Love Styles: Find Compatibility and Create a Lasting Relationship.” In order to identify your deeper needs and understand how people love in different ways, the book gives you in-depth questionnaires and real-life examples of couples navigating their way through challenges. Bottom line, says Martin—who has...
Shacking Up in the OC
If you like to experience art interactively rather than looking at works on a wall, head on down to Laguna Beach. The Laguna Art Museum (LAM) is showcasing the creations of more than two dozen California artists like Don Ed Hardy, Kenny Scharf, Laurie Hassold, Marion Peck, Travis Somerville and Paul Frank– and their take on the “shack” concept. You can walk through most of their installations, including an unusual take...
The East-West Footwear Toe-Down
For designer Nick Brown, a tall, lanky New Zealander transplanted to New York, it was just too much of a stretch to wear sandals all summer. You might say he got flip-flop fatigue. So he took centuries of Mediterranean tradition and created espadrilles with an eco-friendly woven jute sole and a cotton upper in fun colors and striped patterns, like bold black and white and blue pinstripes. Evoking the Hamptons and Martha’s...
Coco and Loco: Coming Soon
The new star of the TNT/TBS Universe bolted out on stage bright and early at the Hammerstein Ballroom, looking a little worse for the wear–after an amusing video clip showing him in a fat suit with a long beard, putting peanut butter on his feet and having his dog lick it off among other funny vignettes, while waiting for that hoped for call–to get a new show after the debacle of his short-lived Tonight Show gig. 10 a.m....
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