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Bottega Louie is an Italian restaurant and patisserie in downtown Los Angeles. It’s stylish interior combining sleek modern design with traditional elegance and an excellent menu make this a beloved eatery. Visit BottegaLouie.com for more. 700 S. Grand Avenue Los Angeles, CA (213) 802-1470.
Two born and bred Angelenos, Marissa Mills and Lisa Present, will spend the rest of their day finalizing production on Devine Design, the 5 day holiday shopping sale benefiting Project Angel Food in Beverly Hills that kicks off with a huge gala party and VIP preview tonight. This year’s event is honoring Kelly Osbourne as a Woman of Style and the runway show will feature Thom Browne’s collection Black Fleece for Brooks Brothers (tickets can be purchased to the 5 day event here).
Marissa and Lisa, co-owners of Style Firm, an event and fashion show production company based in Beverly Hills, spend 80% of their time in the spring working on fashion, and 80% of their time in the fall focusing on events; Divine Design is their year long project. Continue reading
Tagged LA natives, Los Angeles
In honor of what is being called “Cyber Monday,” the new biggest shopping day of the year, we have put out our own gift guide based on items we’ve featured on The Daily Truffle in the past year as well as the best of all the products we get pitched, and our all around top picks from our favorite stores and coolest items we see. Items featured on our gift guide can be purchased through our partner links. All partner sites are safe to shop from. Check back every day for new merchandise we will be adding until Christmas. Ideas for women, men, significant others, children, teenagers, colleagues as well as stocking stuffers and ideas for under $25 and under $100.
Julian Assange covers Forbes
Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, has friends in high (and low) places … Just as Nikkie Finke has dominated the Hollywood gossip grapevine with her network of friends from studio heads to mailroom trainees, Wikileaks has some sources of their own that are dumping “secret”, “confidential” and “unclassified” documents from several US embassies around the world.
Some have asked why the U.S. can’t just pull down the documents which could potentially endanger the U.S., foreign relations, missions and even individual lives. Well, the site is run of a host in Sweden which is offers anonymity under under Swedish law and hosts websites on a series of servers and holds no recods making it virtually impossible to forcedly remove documents.
If only Valentine & Olga Rei had this system, no one would of cracked Socialite Rankrank! Continue reading
With several staff writers from Los Angeles Magazine subscribed to our newsletter, we are happy to see the magazine pays attention.
This month, L.A. mag has 50 stories from L.A. 50 natives, most of whom we’ve profiled, listed and discussed here on The Daily Truffle, which is the only media outlet about upscale life in Los Angeles written by people who have grown up throughout the city.
The best natives featured in this month’s L.A. mag, are Jamie Lee Curtis and Adam Levine and not for their celebrity. It’s because they hit the notes we at The Daily Truffle hit.
Jamie sounds a lot like us and should probably be writing for The Daily Truffle. Continue reading
BTW - this is Prince Albert's gf on the cover - she is not available! lol
Move over Will & Kate, time to hear about the other 200 bright, young things in the UK. (I am going to make my own L.A. list soon.) On the Tatler list of hot young eligables in the December issue … among the list of semi-royals, Oxford grads, DJs, fashion maves, titles like Viscount, I spied a few worthy of note: Continue reading
#settleddownpeople, Pierre Sarkozy is not new … If you are a member of asw or read Tatler, the Royal Forums or The Daily Truffle, you know very well the Sarkozy kids are the sons of the current President of France, and … Continue reading
“The Fran Drescher Tawk Show” will premiere this Friday on Fox at 2pm … and guess what? There are a bunch of L.A. Natives in her house band! Ran Pink (Buckley) and Rami Jaffee (Fairfax) who is a founding member of The Wallflowers and is currently a member of the Foo Fighters.
Ran and Rami co-own a recording studio called Fonogenic Studios in the valley - www.fonogenicstudios.com
Tagged LA natives, Los Angeles
My mom made the most delicious sweet potato souffle that I have ever flipping had in my entire life. Here’s why this is good news for u: My mom cannot cook, literally… It’s not because she doesn’t want to, she just … Continue reading
Last night we spied Tamsin Lonsdale, Reeve Collins, Carly Steel, Tracy Bjelland, Alex Hitz, Adolfo Suaya and Walter Canas on the Food Network’s Private Chefs of Beverly Hills special Supper Club event! The show featured two chefs who cooked a roaring … Continue reading
After tasting macaroons all over the world, I have come to the conclusion that my favorite macaroons on the West Coast are from La Provence Cafe and Patisserie, in Beverly Hills, CA. (Million times better than Paulette, which my dad … Continue reading
Guess what JTD alumni … John Thomas Dye is making Yaz dolls! For the first time this year JTD is making replicas of the beloved The JTD mascot! If you graduated from JTD you know how significant this is … we can all thank Coach Cote who found the starving, deserted little puppy, and brought him into the JTD family a the new mascot for the School. And let’s not forget his bff “L.A.” JTD is hoping we will buy them and take pics of our Yaz dolls to send in for the alumni website. I’m down! If we do a good job, maybe we’ll get an black lab “L.A.” version next year! See link for more info: www.jtdschool.com
Tagged Alumni, John Thomas Dye, JTD, LA natives, LA Private Schools, Los Angeles, prep school, private school, Private schools
“The sbe Brothers Carnival” SBE launches winter carnival in the parking lot of Industry night club on La Cienega every Sunday from 2pm to 6pm, and then moves inside the club until 10pm, starting this weekend through February :) We are … Continue reading
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10 CHRISTMAS party RULES Anna dello Russo
Brian Austin Green to ICM, Will Poulter to WME THR
Snookie’s 32rd Birthday Wireimage
Harvard beats Yale 28-21 Harvard Crimson
33 Chilean miners attend CNN Hero of the Year Gala CNN
Nearly 1,000 attend memorial of Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen and reception hosted by six major studios on the Sony lot KTLA
Derek Lam MOCA lunch at Tod’s WWD
Yale University Will Surrender Incan Artifacts LINK
Old Article on Mark E. Zuckerberg writing Facebook code in Kirkland House Harvard Crimson
The Alchemist DJs Teddy’s. *The Alchemist is an LA Native born and raised in Beverly Hills and went to Beverly High class of ’95. His brother Niel Maman is a music manager in L.A. The two grew up with other interesting peeps like Scott Caan and Kairi Scott who owned Kingsbury on 3rd Street.
B Real was married to a friend of the Truffle.
Everybody knowns nothing happens on the weekends in Los Angeles. We will be back on Monday! xoxo
"Mademoiselle"
Wristband color codes for those waiting in line. All over America, people started to wait in line last night.
I know I said I was going to get up at 5:30 am, but I didn’t, I just didn’t have it in me !
Lindsey and I headed over to the Beverly Center around 1:30 p.m., which was super crowded but not sold completely sold out. I had gone in wanting a lot more things then I walked out with, due to the quality and what they had left !
There are a few things I want that were sold out, those I will go to other H&Ms for.
I walked away with 2 dresses and 3 canvas bags, totaling over 500$, and the sad thing is that I don’t know if I will ever wear either dress!
A few things I must note:
I LOVED how the employees all wore special Lanvin <3 H&M tees
I realllyyyy wanted a garment bag, but they only gave them to men who bought suits or women who bought the huge puffy dresses
The giant puffy dresses will under no circumstances look good on anyone. If you think you look good in this dress, you are delusional, or super model thin. Continue reading
Tagged Alber Elbaz, Beverly Center, Fashion, H&M, Lanvin, lanvin for h&m
$150 from Camille Eddera. Eddera Headband on Victoria Beckham. Buy here.
Tagged Fashion
The history of Lotus Cars is quite a fabled one. Founded in 1952 by British engineer Colin Chapman, it is arguably one of the most famous names in Formula One racing, having been the chariot for the likes of Jim … Continue reading
It’s been quite a literate week for Angelenos this week … two new tomes were feted last evening; never mind that both were photo books with not much text - both quite different in it’s purpose and point of view. Lead Apron hosted Victoria Brynner‘s edit of her father and Oscar winner Yul Brynner‘s gorgeous, rich and thought provoking images of still lifes, film sets and intimate moments of friends such as Audrey Hepburn, (Victoria’s godmother), Joan Collins and Salvador Dali. One telling image of Frank Sinatra exiting a helicopter with a high ball glass in hand made me smile…wow, how stylish indeed! Behind the scenes moments include extras from ‘The Ten Commandments‘ awaiting their next scenes, all in full period costume or the script supervisor from ‘The King and I‘ in casual lounge attire truly epitomizing the fashion and attitude of that era (mid 1950′s), truly inspiring …
Down the street but many decades away photographer Henry Hargreaves clinked cans of Sofia champy with fellow LA hipsters and NYC visitiors @ the newly opened BookMarc, yet another addition to the Marc Jacobs real estate empire on Melrose and Melrose Place. ( BookMarc on Bleeker launched in September during NY Fashion Week.) The book , 3DD complete with 3D eyewear is a collection of, what else? … Boobs, Breasts, Knockers, Titties, etc. … and who doesn’t enjoy those … ??
The shop specializes in limited print art/photography usually related to fashion, architecture and pop culture; just in time for the holidays! Shop Shop folks!
Seriously cool Marc Jacobs sharpies can now be yours!!
Hammer Talk
On to the Hammer …. the museum hosted a conversation between Bret Easton Ellis – a well respected author who highlights local and pop culture in the six semi- autobiographical novels set in Los Angeles circa the late 80′s/early 90′s, and New York City during the hey day of Wall Street, and unbridled hedonism – and Jonathan Gold – a Pulitzer Prize winning food critic and writer known for his penchant of ethnic’ hole in the walls’ very south of the 101 and currently the food critic at L.A. Weekly ………..
Or so we were lead to believe.
What we got was one continuous monologue by Mr. Ellis, who supplied the Four Loko (3 different flavours….), and for some reason couldn’t bring himself to look at Mr. Gold once during the 90 minutes or so they were on stage … Luckily many audience members engaged Mr. Gold with inquiries which he graciously responded with knowledge and humor….. someone even boldly asked Mr. Ellis if he in fact didn’t have any questions for Mr.Gold, giving us finally an exchange between two interesting, smart fellows…..
Jonathan Gold (L) Bret Easton Ellis (R)
Tagged Los Angeles
And we thought the Bruins/Trojans thing was bad … our East Coast counterpart rivalries run much deeper and for much longer. This weekend many of our friends verntured back to their alma matters to see the 127th Harvard vs Yale football held in Cambridge every fall and is known as “The Game”. It’s quite the place to be this weekend – Even DJ Skeet Skeet was hired to play a post game party and our own Tracy Bjelland (Harvard grad) flew back East to see the game and took some pics!
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Last night in L.A. the best ticket in town was the chic little dinner hosted in Levi’s Selma Avenue showroom, right next to Chateau Marmont and hosted by Chiara Clemente and the Levi’s team. Chiara’s sister Nina catered the affair … Continue reading
TRON Pop-Up Shop
November 19 – December 23, 2010
10 a.m. – 6 p.m. daily *10pm on Wednesdays
Royal T in Culver City, CA
Disney Consumer Products (DCP) is giving fans the ultimate TRON experience by hosting the official, one and only TRON Pop-Up Shop with displays and merchandise inspired by the high-tech 3D adventure, TRON: Legacy, releasing in U.S. theaters Dec. 17, 2010 in Disney Digital 3D™ and IMAX® 3D. Just in time for the holiday shopping season, this six week-long retail destination for men and women of all ages will offer one-of-a-kind, limited-edition TRON merchandise at the café, retail concept shop, and art exhibition space.
Anna della Russo
The Coolest show on Earth took place last night in New York city at The Pierre (where else?) in NYC … Alber Elbaz put “couture touches” on his new line with H&M and auctioning them off along with five original signed sketches on www.lanvinforhm.com. All proceeds go to UNICEF, as part of H&M’s “All for Children” project. The online auction will end on November 26th at midnight CET.
The runway show was held at The Pierre and was attended by Sofia Coppola, Andie MacDowell, Emma Roberts, Leelee Sobieski, Anna Sui, Tory Burch and Alexander Wang. Models included Asia Chow, Pixie Geldof, Dree Hemingway, Olga and the ultimate it girl of the moment Anna Dello Russo.
“It’s such a fantastic experience to see how creatively Alber Elbaz uses his designs to form a couture experience for our exclusive fashion show in New York. Working with this incredibly gifted designer has been like an ongoing fashion moment, and we’re thrilled to offer his masterpieces to our customers.” Margareta van den Bosch, creative advisor at H&M.
Sofia Coppola said of the collection, “I think Alber Elbaz is great, I love what he does at Lanvin, it’s so girly and playful and confident. It’s so cool he’s working with H&M, it makes it so accessible to all kinds of young people to be able to afford it and wear it”.
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