For Yotam Solomon fashion extends beyond mere design. Read more...
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January 24, 11:40 pm
Bus Stops: Look both ways before you explore Hollywood Boulevard
Last week, as I was riding the bus along Sunset Boulevard, it occurred to me that there's another famous street just one block up: Hollywood Boulevard. Read more...
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January 23, 11:34 pm
Costume design Professor Deborah Landis fashions workshop from history and student experiences while teaching in Cuba
Last May, when costume design Professor Deborah Landis was invited to conduct a workshop at a film school in Cuba, she had no idea what to expect. Read more...
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Deborah Landis, founding director of UCLA’s Copley Center for the Study of Costume Design, has worked on numerous films including “Animal House,” “Blues Brothers” and Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video. (courtesy of Natasha Rubin)
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January 17, 11:23 pm
Bus Stops: _Exploring Amoeba Music and Roscoe’s in Hollywood_
If I had to sum up this week's trip in a word, it would be "crazy." Read more...
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January 11, 11:12 pm
UCLA’s cupcake princess
Perhaps in conventional circumstances, when a princess goes to war against a general, we expect the one with the bow in her hair to lose. And so it was easy to dismiss 2009 UCLA alumna Dorothy Tong, the self-proclaimed "Cupcake Princess," when she competed on season two of Food Network's "Cupcake Wars." After all, the final competitor standing between her and victory was Bruce Zipes, a gruff New Yorker who wore camouflage and called himself "The General." Tong opened Cupcake and Cookie, an online bakery specializing in her trademark cookie-filled cupcakes and cupcake-filled cookies, only a month before appearing on the show. Read more...
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UCLA alumna Dorothy Tong is the founder of the Los Angeles-based bakery Cupcake and Cookie and the winner of the season two finale of “Cupcake Wars,” a reality show baking contest on the Food Network.
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January 11, 11:10 pm
Fashion or Whatever: Silly Bandz craze appeals to child within
They come in shapes that range from little princess castles to horses and unicorns. Read more...
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Silly Bandz, founded by Robert J. Croak, are rubber bracelets that come in different shapes, including animals, castles and even Justin Bieber.
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January 11, 11:07 pm
UCLA alumni launch fashion line Château Davana
Diana Kohan literally ditched studying for a final to watch a fashion show. "I left my stuff in Kerckhoff during finals weeks and walked into Ackerman and I saw this insane runway show … with models and dresses and music and everything and I got really emotional," Kohan said. Disinterested in her psychology final, as well as school in general at the time, the UCLA alumna saw this fashion show put on by UCLA's Fashion and Student Trends club as the catharsis for her decision to pursue fashion as a career. Having grown up making her own clothes and taking sewing classes, Kohan was always interested in fashion, but didn't think of it as a possible career path until she discovered the fashion club at UCLA. Read more...
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The “Bobbi” dress from UCLA alumna Diana Kohan’s clothing line, Château Davana. (courtesy of Chateau Davana)