GBK’s 2014 MTV Movie Awards’ celebration: tech and trends
Leave it to event planning master and philanthropist Gavin B. Keilly to transform SLS’s ballroom into a more intimate space showcasing great charities and some choice must-haves for summer. As usual, funds and awareness were raised for some worthwhile charities, including Los Angeles Youth Network (which aids abused, neglected and homeless adolescents in becoming […]
Video interview: Alexander Wang on his collaboration with H&M, at the Coachella Music Festival
Above H&M’s Margareta van den Bosch and New York designer Alexander Wang. Alexander Wang (王大仁) is the next designer to collaborate with Hennes & Mauritz, with the announcement made on Saturday at the Coachella Music Festival in Palm Springs, Calif. Online above is video footage from the event, featuring interviews with Wang, Kate Bosworth and […]
We still want our MTV: the Secret Room celebrates the great outdoors
A decade ago, the MTV Movie Awards was Young Hollywood’s kick-off party to summer. In more recent years, it became the unofficial Oscar season “after-party” with its strategic move to April. That said, the pre-MTV Movie Awards festivities planned by Rita Branch and Amy Boatright of the Secret Room (which made the SLS Hotel’s Garden […]
Former Miss Universe New Zealand titleholders feature in upcoming Lucire editorial
Two former Miss Universe New Zealand titleholders will appear in an upcoming feature in the printed edition of Lucire, with New York-based photographer Jon Moe travelling to Los Angeles to capture the pair for the magazine. Laural Barrett (2007) and Samantha Lochhead (née Powell, 2008) both live in the LA area, with Barrett pursuing […]
Eva Mendes shows her spring 2014 collection at California events
Actress Eva Mendes has launched her spring 2014 fashion collection with New York & Company, at two events in California earlier this week. New York & Co. had Mendes as guest of honour at the opening of its new Beverly Center pop-up store at 8500 Beverly Boulevard on Tuesday, while on Wednesday, she celebrated […]
Designer L’Wren Scott, 49, found hanged in apartment—death treated as suicide
Above Mick Jagger and L’Wren Scott pictured last November. Fashion designer L’Wren Scott, 49, has been found dead in her Manhattan apartment, with her death being treated as suicide by New York police. Scott was found hanged by her assistant, whom she had texted earlier in the day to go to the apartment, at […]
Video: Alessandra Ambrósio, Behati Prinsloo show off Victoria’s Secret Swim for 2014
Victoria’s Secret models Alessandra Ambrósio and Behati Prinsloo have added to the promotions for the brand’s 2014 Swim collection at the London West Hollywood. The press day for the swimwear line saw Ambrosio in a white halter-style bikini, while Prinsloo was impressed with her crop-top from the spring–summer 2014 line. ‘The biggest trends for […]
Top of the world and top of the Beverly Hilton with top beauty finds
So many suites, so little time. However, one that was literally head, shoulders and eight storeys above the rest was the TMG International Red Carpet Ready Luxury Suite, which was very international in its products and its welcoming vibe for a carefully curated guest list of celebrities, VIPs and media. The set up atop the […]
A Montage of luxury, invention and indulgence
The venue (the Contessa Ballrooms at the lavish Montage Hotel Beverly Hills) may be new for the Secret Room, but the approach to pre-Oscar Primping is the same. In the case of the event, that’s a very good thing, as far as successful Hollywood formulas go. The headlining charity, once again, was the SPCA LA, […]
Elyse Glickman The rooftop of the Luxe Hotel is a genius spot to plan a pre-award show event. Once again, veteran event planners Mark and Matthew Harris of WOW! Creations and Roger Neal booked the space hoping to continue their respective winning streaks with celebrities and VIPs against a 360-degree backdrop of Beverly Hills. However, […]
