Ayo LA! Insight gear, food and drinks, and music from Black Black at the Insight warehouse sale tomorrow, Nov. 22.  Wish I could go. Luvs me some Insight.

8940 Ellis Ave, Los Angeles

Digital Gravel teamed up with the good people at 722 Figueroa Showroom (Ludwig & FORDBRADY) to create a temporary holiday brick-and-mortar experience, showcasing the excellent quality and finely styled clothes, footwear, accessories, books, art, housewares, and furniture that the companies are well known for.

Taste the rainbow and get an eyeful of the experience in the video below

722 N Figueroa, Downtown LA
213-687-8425

20% off the fall collection at Built By Wendy, coast to coast.

New Yorkers, if you missed yesterday’s Manhattan party, there’s always Williamsburg!

• 46 North 6th Street, Brooklyn

• 7938 West 3rd Street, Los Angeles

• 3520 20th Street, San Francisco

Hellz-Bellz has internship positions available. Looking for dedicated peeps to get the job down in the areas of marketing and design. Get first-hand experience in the fashion industry from one of the hardest working ladies in the business! Here are the details:

*Live in or around the Los Angeles Area

*18 and over

*Have an interest in learning about the fashion industry esp. marketing and design

Contact via e-mail with “INTERN POSITION” as the title to: info@hellz-bellz.com

The other day, I got a surprise message in my inbox from a gorgeous lady named Nena. Inside were pictures of fabulous earrings - bamboo style made of richly-patterned fabrics - that she makes herself. After being floored by the craft(wo)manship, I clicked on her Myspace page and saw that this talented lady has so much more to offer than the few pictures of accessories she included. Check out my favorite of her wares after the jump…

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Swindle Magazine is, hands-down, one of my favorite magazines. Every issue is packed with culture, lifestyle and visuals that are informative and stimulating.

Issue #17, is no different. Among the many articles in this issue, Swindle brings us East L.A.’s obsession with all things Betty Boop! The cover story by Camille Lowry, Betty Boop Born & Praised in L.A., delves into the Betty Boop phenomenon with the Chicano Youth of East Los Angeles. The article makes some interesting points:

Colin Gunkel of the Chicano Studies Research Center at UCLA points out that Betty “looks a bit like a chola. She resonates with a style that’s perhaps more cha-cha than chola.�

Colin believes that Betty was appealing because she was able to successfully negotiate the good girl being bad. He says, “She’s racy, sexual and flashy without compromising her morals, which are the competing demands of our culture.�

You can read the rest of the article at Swindle.com or pick up issue #17 at your local Borders.

In our apocalyptic future, weapons will be wearable, chaos color-coordinated and guns will be designer. But we won’t have to wait for nuclear fallout to be fancy: Peter Gronquist debuted his exhibit last night at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles with weapons of mass consumption on display.

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To celebrate the opening of a new Chanel store in Los Angeles next month, Chanel is introducing 4 limited edition nail colors. Inspired by famous streets and the pop-art colors of sunny skies and surf, the polishes are called appropriately enough - Melrose, Rodeo Drive, LA Sunrise, and LA Sunset. The limited edition colors will be available in store and then online beginning in June. I need to get down to LA in May - I really need the Robertson Boulevard purple!

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While we’ve got Built By Wendy on our lips, we ought to shout out their spring sample sale this weekend, that starts tomorrow. Hit it up and get your cute on!

Kendo just got some hot new styles in store including purple patchwork, clay stripes, lumberjack blasers, liberty and black frost dunk highs, air tech challenges, air structure triax 91’s and nike world cup and varsity dunk hi packs! Get ‘em quick ’cause they’ll go fast!