TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2010


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[DAY 1: KICKING OFF] [DAY 2: ROCKING OUT] [DAY 4: PARTYING HARD]

PAPER L.A. PROJECT 2007 IN PICTURES

(( PAPER's 24-HOUR DEPARTMENT STORE: MEET THE VENDORS! ))

Colette
This legendary Parisian boutique-slash-gallery is still tens across the board! Stocking the likes of Gareth Pugh, Jeremy Scott (see below), House of Holland, Y3 trainers and the music of Heartschallenger (see below), Colette is one-stop shopping for ITK (in the know) kids.

Opening Ceremony
Humberto Leon and Carol Lim have recently moved their New York City avant-garde boutique vision to the West Coast -- to Charlie Chaplin's former dance studio, specifically. Decor includes hydraulic jewelry cases and labyrinthian arrangements that reflect the iconic congestion of W.C. life.

Undefeated
Aka "Undftd," this LA boutique (with locations on La Brea and in Silver Lake and Santa Monica) is best known for limited edition sneakers produced by Nike and Adidas exclusively for Undefeated. Other claims to fame... Air Jordan 4s and the billboard project on La Brea which mixes fine art with street art and places it where everyone can see it... Brilliant!

M.A.C. Cosmetics
Keeping drag queens, rappers, and trust fund sisters pretty for over 20 years. With a pound of base and a whole lotta color, the world can be a better place!

The Smell
This all age punk/noise/experimental party palace still stinks... in a good way! Indie bands and abstract artists take refuge here and find common ground at the vegan snack bar.

Levi's Damien Hirst
The bad-boy artist (who's now a good boy?), most recently in the news for his diamond-covered cast of a human skull, continues his obsession with anatomy and the bling factor. A new collection for the Levi's Warhol Factory line features skull shaped patterns outlined with crystals.

Screaming Mimi's
Retro chic is the look here. Sixties vintage platform shoes, '70s Chloe dresses and '80s Member's Only jackets are just a few of the treats that can be found at this New York institution.

Ooga Booga
Created by a collective of young artists and designers, this raw storefront space houses a menagerie of zines, novels, comics and independent music. As well as clothing lines such as Amy Yao, Keep Company shoes and Tagbanger shirts.

Mollusk
This multiple-locationed surf shop specializes in exclusive handcrafted boards from top shapers like Manny Caro, Michel Junod, and Chris Christenson. Bonus: A cute, real surfer-boy staff that will recommend a "stick" best suited for your pleasure.

Citizen-Citizen
An online project featuring emerging British object-art designers who transform everyday objects into objects of desire. Our personal favorite is the 18-karat-gold-dipped coke spoon.

RVCA
Pronounced "Rooka," this art-surf-skate line was founded by designer P.M. Tenore in 2001. The line features a who's who of contributing artists like Mark Hunter (see below), Mark Mothersbaugh, Brendan Fowler among others.

Show Pony
A little pink shop/art-space in Echo Park owned by artist Kime Buzzelli. In addition to selling an eclectic mix of vintage clothes and antique wares, on the first Saturday of every month Bizzelli pairs an indie designer with a specific artist, creating a designer/artist residency of sorts.

Creative Growth
A San-Francisco-based facility for developmentally disabled adult artists that provides an environment for artistic freedom, gallery promotion and personal expression. Creative Growth recently teamed up with PAPER -- see the results here.

Jack Spade
A Jack Spade messenger bag is the bag of choice for city-dwelling men with good taste. Recognize.

Lost + Found
The coolest kids in the under-four-feet-tall crowd (and their parents) will want to head to Jamie Rosenthal's children's boutique, which she describes as "Alice in Wonderland meets Jimi Hendrix."

William Good
Nick Graham (of Joe Boxer fame)'s new venture involves taking items from Goodwill's discard bin, hiring designers to gussy them up, and selling them -- in effect, preventing 75 percent of Goodwill's donated items from ending up in a landfill. The highly-anticipated collection will be on sale for the first time at PAPER's 24-Hour Department Store!

Heartschallenger
Heartschallenger comes straight from the unicorn-dappled brain of our favorite Renaissance woman Leyla Safai: She sings, she makes clothes, she drives an ice cream truck.

The Cobrasnake
If you've been photographed by The Cobrasnake (aka Mark Hunter) you've made it. If you've interviewed his mother (ahem, Carol) you've doubly made it.

Supreme
The cool New York skate shop to end all cool New York skate shops, helmed by James Jebbia, recently opened shop in L.A. Now it's the cool L.A. skate shop to end all L.A. skate shops. Go figure.

A+R
Pronounced "A Plus R," this global design boutique (with two locations -- one in Silverlake, one on Abbot Kinney) is run by PAPER favorite Rose Apodaca (and former West Coast bureau chief of WWD) and her husband Andy Griffith.

Ingo Maurer
Not only did Ingo Maurer design the big neon pink-orange light in PAPER's conference room, but he recently had a huge exhibit of his brilliant lighting designs at Cooper-Hewitt!

Threeasfour
We were joking that new PAPER interns should be required to look at a photo of Threeasfour and be able to identify on the spot which one is Adi, Gabi and Ange. In other words, these avant-chic designers, nominated for CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Award, are some of our favorites.

FUCT
A legendary skate brand founded by Erik Brunetti and Steve Rocco's World Industries in the early '90s that still knows how to create a good, old-fashioned anti-establishment ruckus.

Rodarte
In just a few years, Pasadena-based designers/sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy have created one of the most talked-about, respected, exciting and beautiful new clothing lines.

Jeremy Scott
Fashion maverick Jeremy Scott has posed in his MySpace profile photo with both Lindsay Lohan and Cory Kennedy, if that gives you an idea of him, and his clothing.

Modern Appealing Clothing
Also referred to as MAC, this sibling-run (Ben and Chris Ospital) San Francisco boutique carries an expertly-curated mix of global designers and local brands -- making it, hands down, one of SF's best shops.

Hit + Run
If you like your silkscreening done on the fly and at parties, then you'll love Brandy Flower and Mike Crivello's T-shirt line/movement HIT+RUN. The duo set up shop at a party, enlist an artist to create a silkscreen design and make T-shirts on the spot.

(( ANDREW ANDREW'S SONGS TO SHOP TO ))

Andrew Andrew are PAPER's go-to, identically named/dressed DJs, and as such we like to take them with us to L.A. They DJ-d last night's Levi's On the Rox art exhibit and tonight they'll be DJ-ing and hosting PAPER's 24-Hour Department Store. To get you in the mood for spending money on limited edition wares, we asked them to give us their favorite songs to shop to.

1. "Ballade Des Petites Petons" - Andre Popp (La Musique Qui Fait Popp: Highlights From The Works Of Andre Popp 1952-1962)
2. "Girl in a Sportscar" - Alan Hawkshaw (Essential Vibes & Grooves 1967-1975)
3. "Mo'Hawk" - Alan Hawkshaw (Essential Vibes & Grooves 1967-1975)
4. "Always True to You in My Fashion" - Peggy Lee With George Shearing (Anything Goes: Capitol Sings Cole Porter)
5. "Rich Man's Frug" - Cy Coleman (Sweet Charity)
6. "Oh Calcutta" - The Dave Pell Singers (The Sound Gallery Volume 1)
7. "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)" - Talking Heads (Sand in the Vaseline, disc 1)

(( FOUR QUESTIONS FOR BARBARA BESTOR ))

Barbara Bestor is one of Los Angeles' foremost modern architects, and something of a celebrity round these parts! So we were quite thrilled that she designed this year's PAPER Project Space. In the midst of the madness, we were able to ask Ms. Bestor a few questions...

1. Tell me the idea behind the PAPER Project space...

Weeellll, we had to accommodate both a hanging art show and a whole bunch of stores, and the space had been rented with the condition that we COULD NOT TOUCH THE WALLS OR THE CEILINGS! Plus, we had to build and/or install the whole deal in about a day! Plus there was little money, so I was trying to find used movie sets and things like that, but then I realized that the scaffolding we would have used to install it with would actually make a better structure itself. So we made a model or two in the erector set vein and then tried out wrapping it in various materials (paper, tyvek, etc.) to see what would be better-faster-cheaper. Et voila! The semi-Christo, scaffolding-PAPER world, with the lounge in the middle... The idea was to make a flexible building within a building, a substructure for all these magazine activities!

2. You are clearly very inspired by mid-century modern Los Angeles architecture... Why are you -- and so many others -- so taken with this movement?

Well sometimes I am very inspired by that, but right now I guess my favorite buildings are 1920s L.A. modern, 1972 sea ranch/Northern Cali, 1890s New England Queen Anne oddities, contemporary Tokyo retail, Marfa stuff, old Herzog de Meuron... All over the map really! BUT, that being said, I think the pull of the mid-century stuff is that it took the modern desire (seen in Frank Lloyd Wright's prairie style and the European modernist glass houses) to integrate the house with its natural surroundings, and realized it in a variety of accessible, inexpensive and (with the help of our warm climate) truly indoor/outdoor houses... They are so simple but usually really, really good spaces.

3. What exactly is "Bohemian Modern" -- the title of your 2006 book?

Well, it is a manifesto for a modern architecture that is not rigidly prescriptive and antiseptic -- especially in how you live with it in the everyday. In my neighborhood there are all these great examples of people living in modern environments that are at the same time truly expressive of their individuality, sort of the antithesis of the high modern culture that you sometimes see in decorating magazines where the architectural aesthetic dominates the individual. I think my favorite poster-boy and girl for this manifesto are Charles and Ray Eames, whose house in Santa Monica Canyon was a pair of industrial machine-aesthetic boxes but then had these surprising color panels and a ridiculously rich collection of artifacts, rugs, furniture, etc. -- sort of a treasure house on the inside.

I was just in Tokyo and saw a great contemporary example of the bohemian modern thing -- though it was really two different spaces... On one side of the Omotesando is the new Prada store by Herzog and de Meuron, which is brilliant, hyper-modern, with a good landscape design, full transparency, etc, etc. On the other side of the street is a little sign that says "loveless," and you go down this dark tunnel, down two stories into a dark, gothic, cavernous space with very cool records and rock clothes -- and it is super glamorous and thrilling. So to me, the bohemian modern thing is sort of the dual appreciation of these superficially conflicted realities -- the desire for aesthetic beauty and pure perfection on the one hand, and the desire for messy, dark, human sexy stuff on the other. I think design work that can acknowledge that spectrum of desire is very powerful.

4. What's your favorite building in L.A.?

Man oh man. That changes a lot. A standard for me is the Schindler Kings Road house. I had my (first) wedding there even! I also love the Art Center School building by Craig Ellwood at twilight -- it is a bridge over a ravine and it just glows magically. I like a lot of landscape work here too, like Melinda Taylor's upper level gardens at the Concert Hall, the garden at the Norton Simon Museum, the weird little Noguchi garden in Newport Beach... yadda yadda

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This story was published on November 9, 2007.
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