Fashion/Music/Art + Design for Humanity

Turning the fake New York streets into a real block  party threw Billabong’s 4th annual Design for  Humanity event into a new neighborhood. About  3,000 people filled the “streets” to see artists creating  canvases, bands like Fischerspooner and Kid Sister  performing and of course, a bunch of hot models  parading down the runway in this summer’s hottest  bikinis. Limited edition products and artworks sold  on site benefited Invisible...

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Billabong’s Design for Humanity

Turning the fake New York streets of Paramount’s backlot into a real block party put Billabong’s 4th annual Design for Humanity event into a whole new realm of fashion, art and performance–and a massive, fun party, heated up by the company’s hot designs. About 3,000 people filled the “streets” to see artists creating canvases, bands like Fischerspooner and Kid Sister performing and of course, a bunch of hot models...

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The East-West Footwear Toe-Down

For designer Nick Brown, a tall, lanky New Zealander transplanted to New York, it was just too much of a stretch to wear sandals all summer. You might say he got flip-flop fatigue. So he took centuries of Mediterranean tradition and created espadrilles with an eco-friendly woven jute sole and a cotton upper in fun colors and striped patterns, like bold black and white and blue pinstripes. Evoking the Hamptons and Martha’s...

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La Dolce Donatella
Feb09

La Dolce Donatella

Donatella Versace, surrounded by Trudie Styler, Eva Longoria, Kanye West and Jennifer Lopez at the Walk of Style in Beverly Hills, February 8, 2007. They’re having fun. Totally off the hook. That’s the best way to describe last Thursday night’s blowout bash at a tented Beverly Hills City Hall for the Rodeo Drive Walk of Style? Award honoring Donatella Versace and her late brother Gianni Versace.  The amount of beauty...

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