Globe, designers and distributors of shoes, clothing and cruiser skateboards, unveiled its upcoming Year Zero collection this past Monday at the Roosevelt Hollywood premiere of its acclaimed surf movie Year Zero. Produced in conjunction with the film, the Year Zero collection features unique, one-of-a-kind pieces inspired by the film’s dystopian, post-apocalyptic art direction. →

Celebrate the Difference
A lookbook of Civil Clothing’s Fall 2011

Our good friend, Brian Leung, created his concept clothing brand to celebrate the diversity that blesses Los Angeles. As a long-time Angeleno himself, Leung documents the music, film and art percolating in the streets and uses his journalistic endeavors to inspire his fashion designs. →

SIR/FQ magazine art director, Abel Munoz, is a couture shoe designer and Costa Rican native based out of Toronto. With SNL/Bridesmaids actress Kirstin Wiig wearing his shoes, a coveted write up in WWD and a nod in an Italian Vogue spread (for his chic, multi-buckled Petronia,) Munoz is a rising star with few peers.  And for good reason.

His shoes are sassy, yet refined and beautiful, made for women of “any age who love luxury and shoes.” They are architectural, bold and streamlined, perhaps echoing his graphic design back ground.
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Los Angeles based film/art studio CHARLOTTEBOBCATS.COM recently worked with Evil Monito in this film project entitled “Amy Frederick.” Take a look below.

Gordon Voidwell – Ivy League Circus

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Gordon Voidwell is a prince of the Bronx, a self-styled musician and fashion writer who can, with a single song, make you dance and think about hunger and down and out living. His songs draw influences from electro-funk and Italo disco, traditionally dance-driven genres, but his lyrics are acerbic and world-weary, engaging unsavory realities as much as his funky sounds try to transform them. In this Q&A, Voidwell discusses rapping for white kids, writing songs against anti-intellectuals and dressing to the nines. →

An interview with Jiji Panda
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In China, the national symbol is not a dragon, a Ming dynasty urn, or a red star, but a cute animal- the giant panda. Infamous worldwide for their generally docile nature and overwhelming cuteness, pandas have even been sent to other countries from China as big greeting cards of peace, a practice the media termed “Panda Diplomacy.” As of this article, they are still listed as an endangered species. However, a new species of panda is breeding successfully, in fashion and cute goods sites all over the world, and he doesn’t eat bamboo and loaf around, smiling. →

Sample Sale Season
New Work Studio- Los Angeles, CA
11/18/10

Ladies, get ready to empty your wallets and cop those threads you’ve been eyeing for months. →

Movember and Repeat Offender
The Echo-Los Angeles, CA
11/12/10

MOVEMBER, the month formerly known as November, is a moustache growing charity event held during November each year that raises funds and awareness for men’s health.  Movember challenges men to change their appearance and the face of men’s health by growing a “Mo” (slang for moustache) for 30 days.  Conceived in 2003, and inspired by the women’s breast cancer movement, the Australian Mo Brohs set themselves on a course to create a global men’s health movement where funds are raised for cancers that affect men.  →

SENA  is a contemporary women’s line developed and produced in the heart of the Garment District in New York City.

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Milkmade + Garbstore Autumn Showcase
Milkmade Select Shop – Venice, CA
10/21/10

Milkmade is partnering with workroom to bring you a presentation of Garbstore’s Autumn/Winter Collection, entitled The Road Below.  Come shop an extended selection of the current season’s offerings from Garbstore and receive 15% off on the entire line, as well as 10% off on all other clothing & accessories, storewide. →