Surviving as a free downtown print weekly since Richard Nixon was President is no mean feat. So kudos to Los Angeles Downtown News editor and publisher Sue Laris for making it to a 40th anniversary year.
For this week’s celebratory issue, Laris has penned a long and very amusing essay titled “How To Start Your Own Newspaper.” The piece starts out as a checklist for prospective media barons, before eventually detouring to a golden anecdote:
The total we needed to start the company was $1,400, which was a lot of money to us at the time. I had no idea of the right way to get a business loan, so I walked into our bank, then a United California Branch in Inglewood, and asked for the loan officer.
Fashionista.com is an online explosion of personalities, companies, events and trends that shape the fashion universe. We chronicle the fashion trail from the runway to the first Canal Street knockoffs, while dishing the latest in supermodel gossip and finding the hottest new designers.
It may have been a sleepy President’s Day here in the good ole U.S. of A., but if you’re looking for a little visual wallop, Super Monday in the U.K. offered luxed-up sex at Burberry Prorsum, fifty shades of black at Erdem, a “this is your brain on Christopher Kane” performance for PPR, and the return to the catwalk of Tom Ford.
Fashionista.com is an online explosion of personalities, companies, events and trends that shape the fashion universe. We chronicle the fashion trail from the runway to the first Canal Street knockoffs, while dishing the latest in supermodel gossip and finding the hottest new designers.
I went through a rogue piercing phase around age 18: Nose, lip, navel, other things… And while I still fantasize on the daily about actually going through with a septum piercing, I’ve seen too many keloid horror stories on LiveJournal (don’t judge) to bring myself to get my ear cartilage done.
Fashionista.com is an online explosion of personalities, companies, events and trends that shape the fashion universe. We chronicle the fashion trail from the runway to the first Canal Street knockoffs, while dishing the latest in supermodel gossip and finding the hottest new designers.
We’ve been crazy about the costumes for Anna Karenina since the first stills were released, and it looks like we’re not the only ones: They’ve been nominated for this year’s Best Costume Design Oscar.
Fashionista.com is an online explosion of personalities, companies, events and trends that shape the fashion universe. We chronicle the fashion trail from the runway to the first Canal Street knockoffs, while dishing the latest in supermodel gossip and finding the hottest new designers.
Meet Willie Greene. He’s the 18-year-old behind Tumblr’s most followed fashion blog, WeTheUrban. And he’s turned it into a magazine–marking the first time a tumblr has ever turned into a serialized print publication.
Fashionista.com is an online explosion of personalities, companies, events and trends that shape the fashion universe. We chronicle the fashion trail from the runway to the first Canal Street knockoffs, while dishing the latest in supermodel gossip and finding the hottest new designers.
It may be the shortest of all the fashion “weeks,” but LDN sure knows how to pack a punch in the form of spectacular personal style. This is the home of the Spice Girls (OK and punk), after all.