MAGAZINE
September 10, 2006 | Kristin Young, Kristin Young is features editor at Angeleno magazine, where she covers fashion. Her articles have also appeared in Women's Wear Daily, W, Redbook and others.
[Caption text by Kristin Young] * Resource Guide * Metals, Page 34: Miu Miu gold-sheen hand-painted jacquard dress, $4,705, available at Miu Miu, New York City, (212) 334-5156. Gold silk dress by 3.1 phillip lim, $426, at Neiman Marcus, Beverly Hills, and Barneys New York, Beverly Hills. Suede platform shoe with plexiglass heel, $995, at Sergio Rossi, Beverly Hills. * Fur, Page 35: Louis Vuitton crushed fur wedge boots, $1,780, at Louis Vuitton, Beverly Hills.
MAGAZINE
August 15, 2004 | VICTORIA NAMKUNG
Heads up, Blahnik, Choo and Louboutin; there's a new luxury shoe designer, and he's not lacking in attitude. "A daughter doesn't want to wear what her mother is wearing," says George Mang of his collection of intricately designed footwear, which debuts this fall. "I think I have something different to say than what's out there." A high school dropout who "wanted to grow up to be Keith Richards," Mang started his career at 16 as a department store shoe salesman in Phoenix.
MAGAZINE
February 24, 2002 | PETER MCQUAID
Architectural designer Denise Ip only recently began her love affair with cars, and her heart belongs to her 1969 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme 442. It was one of those love-at-first-sight things. "It wasn't rational. I just knew I had to have it," the 24-year-old says. It was a Sunday. "I was driving through the hills in Silver Lake, and I saw it parked by the side of the road. I don't even remember whether I knocked on the door or the guy who owned it was standing outside.
IMAGE
March 18, 2007 | Mimi Avins, Times Staff Writer
THE stock answer to the "Why do shoes and handbags cost so much?" question usually comes down to the quality of the materials. Fine leather -- aged, cured, buffed or distressed -- doesn't come cheap. But that reasoning becomes a little murky when the hefty price tag hangs from boots or bags made of patent leather, which are flooding the stores this spring, and promise to continue into the fall. Real patent is leather, given a high gloss finish and a coating of plastic.
NEWS
August 9, 2002 | VALLI HERMAN-COHEN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
For persons with disabilities, finding stylish, comfortable and durable clothing can be a frustrating challenge. Many settle for whatever clothes they can rig to fit. Childhood friends Kurt Rieback and Tom Pirruccello met up as adults and started a business, Professional Fit, to help improve clothing options for the disabled.
NEWS
October 6, 2005 | Mark Sachs
ACTRESS Christina Moore has the looks that allowed her to break into TV playing bit parts such as "Gorgeous Woman" and "Sexy Anchor." Her sketch-comedy skills won her a stint on "MADtv." And she's performed in musical productions such as "Big River" and "Annie." But Friday night she goes prime time, costarring in the new ABC sitcom "Hot Properties."