LA Rocks Fash­ion Week’s pre­sen­ta­tion of Lau­ren Elaine’s Fall 2010 Black Label col­lec­tion stood on it’s own amongst the glitz and glam of the famed Sun­set Strip. Held at The Key Club known for host­ing some of rocks finest acts, was the per­fect set­ting for Lauren’s “Lit­tle Red Rid­ing Hood” inspired col­lec­tion. The red car­pet was teem­ing with a vari­ety of young Hol­ly­wood “In Crowd”, many of whom donned fash­ion wear pro­vided by Lau­ren Elaine.

Record­ing Artist/​Actress Kayslee Collins kicked off the event backed by an edgy but homo­ge­neous rock/​punk band, the set being high­lighted by a punk rock ren­di­tion of Lady Ga Ga’s “Bad Romance”.The crowd was fully warmed up when Lauren’s pre­sen­ta­tion began with a bril­liant array of gowns and dresses which lead up to the “sur­prise” ending…A stun­ning “Lit­tle Red Rid­ing Hood” gown, the model flanked by Harley the “Wolf” (a Siber­ian Husky) as they glided down the run­way to David Bowie’s “Putting Out the Fire (with Gaso­line). The crowd was thrilled and stood up as the gor­geous Lau­ren Elaine met at the stage’s end with “Lit­tle Red Rid­ing Hood” and the “Wolf”.
Next up was the head­lin­ing music act “Dar­ling Stilet­tos”, who served up a scorch­ing set of 80’s style metal, fueled by wild gyra­tions and a more than gen­er­ous help­ing of sex appeal. Capping off the evening was the dark visu­als of “Stella Rossa” who’s haunt­ing key­board sounds and bizarre the­atrics were rem­i­nis­cent of an H.P. Love­craft story. A really great act.

Check out our video cov­er­age, hot pics, and shots from the red carpet!

Art on walls. Seems sim­ple enough.…But dig­i­tal art pro­jected on the illus­tri­ous white walls of Alys Beach? A WHOLE dif­fer­ent story. Every June, for the past three years, artists and vis­i­tors from all over the world make their way to the infa­mous and always cap­ti­vat­ing Alys Beach for one of the world’s most amaz­ing events - Dig­i­tal Graf­fiti.

An event I anx­iously await for every year, this fes­ti­val of arts stands alone in its beauty, mag­nif­i­cence and grandeur. If you’re not famil­iar with Dig­i­tal Graf­fiti, then you are way behind the curve. The grow­ing pop­u­lar­ity of DG has only proven that Alys Beach knows how to throw a party. Not only a party, but a world-​​renowned cul­mi­na­tion of artists, music, fab­u­lous peo­ple, and of course all come together at Cal­iza Pool, my out­let to another civilization.

After hun­dreds of sub­mis­sions, and much debate I’m sure, DG has recently announced the list of artists who made the final cut and will be show­cas­ing their art on Sat­ur­day, June 12, 2010. You DON’T want to miss this!!!

1. “Aes­thetic Species Maps” by David Mont­gomery of Fer­nan­d­ina Beach, Florida
2. “Alys Beach 3D Struc­ture Pro­jec­tion” by Christo­pher Lee of Dothan, Alabama
3. “Bomb­shell” by Don Relyea of Dal­las, Texas
4. “Eye Spy” by Rus­sell Beans of Seacrest, Florida
5. “Five Por­traits in Five Min­utes” by Kasumi of Cleve­land, Ohio
6. “Flight­pat­tern” by Gwen Van­hee of Zedel­gem, Belgium
7. “Frosti” by Matt Pear­son of Brighton, United Kingdom
8. “Geom­e­try of Poi” by Kate Riegle — van West of Chicago, Illinois
9. “Green­ray” by Andre Rangel of Portugal
10. “Human Flux” by Nikola Mihov of Sofia, Bulgaria
11. “Inner Klänge” by Lemeh42 of Moter­ado, Italy
12. “JD’s Fun House 2010″ by John Daniel of Panama City, Florida
13. “Kalei­do­scopia” by Andy McK­e­own of Shrews­bury, United Kingdom
14. “Laser Art” by Christo­pher Lee of Dothan, Alabama
15. “Lumi­nous Curiosi­ties” by Christina Pier­son of Los Ange­les, California
16. “Moon­lit McGill” by Amber Bush­nell of Mis­soula, Montana
17. “Night Walk­ers” by Yan­dell Wal­ton of VIC, Australia
18. “Organic Cycles” by Kris­ten Regan of Pen­sacola, Florida
19. “Part of the Surge and Not the Sea” by Kevin Romoser of Wayne, New Jersey
20. “Planet Cal­iza” by Kurt Lis­chka of Santa Rosa Beach, Florida
21. “Re-​​Birth” by Said Dokins and Mauri­cio Rodriguez of Cuauhte­moc, Mexico
22. “Res­o­nance” by Charles Raf­fety of Mis­soula, Montana
23. “Roberto” by David Ter­ra­nova of New York, New York
24. “SAN” by Jack­son Petit of The Bahamas
25. “Sous­bleu” by Gwen Van­hee of Zedel­gem, Belgium
26. “Take Care” by Matt Pear­son of Brighton, United Kingdom
27. “The Ancient Mariner” by Michael Bur­ton of Lin­coln, Nebraska
28. “Trans­mis­sion (32 chan­nels)” by Sam Holden of Lon­don, United Kingdom
29. “True Fic­tions: Home of the Brave” by Mal­colm Lit­son of Lon­don, United Kingdom
30. “UGOKU” by Kasumi of Cleve­land, Ohio
31. “untitled_(memory)” by Matthew West of Sioux Falls, South Dakota
32. “Vacio” by Daniel Ivan of Ame­cameca, Mexico
33. “Void?” by Bala Boyd of Freeport, Florida
34. “Walk­ers” by Nick Rands of Lon­don, United Kingdom
35. “White Dishes” by Stephanie Paine of Lafayette, Indiana
36. “Win­nipeg Sto­ries: Sac­ri­fi­cial Mem­o­ries” by Clint Enns of Win­nipeg, Canada

Atten­tion ladies! We finally found a good excuse to buy another lit­tle black dress—and this time it’s for char­ity! The White-​​Wilson Cen­ter for Women’s Imag­ing has part­nered with local orga­ni­za­tions to host The Lit­tle Black Dress Party to help pro­mote pre­ven­ta­tive health­care and raise money for local char­i­ties. Men, you are invited too, and you do not have to wear a lit­tle black dress. In fact, we encour­age you not to!

With the cur­rent eco­nomic con­di­tions, White-​​Wilson Med­ical Cen­ter has seen a decline in pre­ven­ta­tive health screen­ings, specif­i­cally amongst women ages 18–55. Unfor­tu­nately, these eco­nomic dif­fi­cul­ties don’t change the fact that early detec­tion is the most effec­tive way to fight back against debil­i­tat­ing dis­eases such as breast and colon can­cer, osteo­poro­sis and heart disease.

In response, White-​​Wilson Med­ical Cen­ter and Emer­ald Ladies Jour­nal have part­nered with Dillard’s, Qan­tum Com­mu­ni­ca­tions, Cox Com­mu­ni­ca­tions, The North­west Florida Daily News, Image Print­ing, Emer­ald Chic and the Emer­ald Coast Con­fer­ence Cen­ter to raise aware­ness regard­ing the impor­tance of pre­ven­ta­tive health­care amongst women and to host this elec­tri­fy­ing event. We are pas­sion­ate that pre­ven­ta­tive care is the best way to save lives.

The Lit­tle Black Dress Party is May 22 at the Emer­ald Coast Con­fer­ence Cen­ter, and will fea­ture live music by Déjà vu Band, a fash­ion show by Dillard’s, a live auc­tion, heavy hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar. Tick­ets are $60 and cor­po­rate tables of 10 are $600; 100% of event pro­ceeds will ben­e­fit The Shel­ter House, Oppor­tu­nity Inc., and the local chap­ters of The Amer­i­can Can­cer Soci­ety and The Amer­i­can Heart Asso­ci­a­tion. Call 863‑8204 for tickets.

We still need items for the live auc­tion as well as event spon­sors. By part­ner­ing together, we believe that we can make a dif­fer­ence in the lives of the women in our com­mu­nity. We are proud to bring you this excit­ing new event and hope that you will slip into your favorite lit­tle black dress (or black suit for gen­tle­men) and come cel­e­brate life and good health with us!

For more infor­ma­tion on this event or for a list of rec­om­mended annual health screen­ings visit: http://​www​.white​-wil​son​.com/​l​i​t​t​l​e​b​l​a​c​k​d​r​e​s​s​p​a​r​t​y​.​htm.

Some­times pic­tures just don’t do it. Thank­fully, our TV crew cap­tured some video footage of the Direc­tives West fash­ion show. You can see our pre­vi­ous post for more info and pics from the event. It was fab!

Located in old down­town Los Ange­les at the Spring Arts Tower, Smash Box’s Con­cept LA was pre­sented in a room which had the ambiance of a 1940’s bank.

Con­cept LA boasted a wide vari­ety of design­ers and new up and com­ing Los Ange­les fash­ion design and con­cept. The myr­iad of mood and music into which each designer con­tributed a piece of themselves, showcased the more gut level fash­ion that presently thrives in the LA area.

Punc­tu­ated by the set­ting, designer Jen Awad’s self described ver­sion of a “post apoc­a­lyp­tic” vision of the 40’s and 50’s brought into the “now using mod­ern mate­ri­als” was a big hit with crowd and media alike. Her inspired uti­liza­tion of the clas­sic” form and sil­hou­ette of a woman”  and com­ple­ment­ing selec­tion of back­ground music that brought the focus to her design line, Jen paraded her array of 40’s — 50’s influ­enced and “acci­den­tally 80’s mix” designs down the run­way to an enthu­si­as­tic crowd. Jen Awad is one the LA stand-​​out design­ers to keep an eye out for.

Pho­tos cour­tesy of our LA Fash­ion Cor­re­spon­dence Team: Chris­t­ian Lewis — Producer