Beautifully free spirits: 2017’s Indie Beauty Expo
On any given day, the California Market Center in Downtown Los Angeles is buzzing with the goings-on of the city’s fashion industry. Racks of clothing are pushed and pulled from here to there, buyers bounce from one showroom to the next. Hopeful designers showcase the next season’s must-have dress or handbag. That all changed when […]
Dimitrios Kambouris, Kevin Mazur, Christopher Polk, Stefanie Keenan, John Sciulli, Emma McIntyre, Matt Winkelmeyer, Frazer Harrison The 23rd annual Screen Actors’ Guild Awards, held at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center on Sunday, honoured outstanding performances from 2016 in film and television. From the moment the ceremony began, the stars wasted no time diving […]
La La Land gets 14 nominations for 2017 Oscars, including leads Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling
The lists of nominees for the 89th Academy Awards were announced on the morning of January 24 in a live stream that took place in six cities around the world, rather than at its traditional home of the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. La La Land surprised with 14 nominations including Best Picture, Best […]
GBK puts the ‘lounge’ back into its Golden Globe Century Lounge
Elyse Glickman For GBK’s last several award show-outings, Gavin Keilly and his troupe went high volume and high production, complete with backdrops at such larger-than-life places as the W Hollywood. The sampling, gifting and revelry went on for days at these things (well, two, to be exact, but you get the idea, based on our […]
A Golden mine of beauty finds, as the Secret Room honours 74th Globes nominees
J. C. Olivera Among the celebrities attending: Rénée Oldstead, Amara Karan, Katie Leclerc. Anyone attending a Secret Room event during an award show weekend can count on discovering cutting-edge, kind-to-the-environment beauty products. However, the Secret Room Events honouring 74th Golden Globe Awards nominees and presenters focused almost entirely of skin care and wellness products made […]
Art Lewin Bespoke: when crowd suits the occasion
Above, from top: Art Lewin with Daniel Simons. Interior at Art Lewin’s Santa Monica store. Eugenia Kuzmina. With Kelsey Scott. Patrika Darbo. Whether you’re going for an audition or a job interview, the first impression is critical. With a guest list that included actors, attorneys, and LA power-brokers, nobody understands this better than Art Lewin. […]
Celebrity Connected: a platform for the “green party”
Elyse Glickman After an intense, divisive US presidential season, and its controversial aftermath, Californians were ready to kick off award show season. Celebrity Connected not only got the party started, but provided some much needed pre-Christmas comfort and joy to greet the Hollywood creative community. The W Hollywood became a Garden of Eden, filled with […]
Pretty Little Liars’ Lucy Hale has been named as a spokeswoman and creative director for Casetify, a company retailing cellphone cases, Apple Watch bands, Macbook sleeves and clutches. The capsule collection of 34 pieces has been launched in time for the new Apple Iphone 7, based around the idea of ‘delicate but daring,’ a […]
Green with beauty: a holistic understanding through Organic Spa Magazine
Randall Michelson Since 2007, Organic Spa Magazine has inspired and informed readers on green beauty and living. By no means limited to the world of day spas, Organic Spa educates and motivates on all aspects of a holistic lifestyle. At the famously posh Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills on a rather balmy October evening, members […]
Sponsored video: Carrera’s Maverick reputation
A Lucire special promotion Eyewear’s one of those categories where it’s hard to differentiate, and if you’re not licensing from a major fashion label, then you have to dig deep. Carrera, the Italian eyewear label, has done just that, hiring Academy Award-winning actor Jared Leto to be its face of its 2016 campaign—and going a […]
