An exhibit launching in Huntington Beach will explore the early-day connection between surf and skate culture.
The International Surfing Museum’s new “SURF2SKATE” exhibit launches March 3, and will examine how surfing influenced modern-day skateboarding.
Both sports for the first time will be included in the 2020 Olympic games.
The International Surfing Museum in Huntington Beach is launching a Surf2Skate exhibit Saturday, March 3, 2018. Courtesy of the International Surfing Museum.
The International Surfing Museum in Huntington Beach is launching a Surf2Skate exhibit Saturday, March 3, 2018. Courtesy of the International Surfing Museum.
The International Surfing Museum in Huntington Beach is launching a Surf2Skate exhibit Saturday, March 3, 2018. Courtesy of the International Surfing Museum.
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The opening night will have an “On the Red Couch” talk with Allen Sarlo and Jeff Ho, surfers who had an influence on the skate scene in the 70s, especially with their roles on the Z-boys surf and skateboard team in the Venice and Santa Monica area.
Other influential skaters such as Tosh Townend, Herbie Fletcher, Randy Lewis and Jeff Alter are expected to be at the event.
Much of the exhibit was brought to Huntington Beach by the Surfing Heritage and Cultural Center in San Clemente, which had a similar installment a few months ago.
Tickets are $20 for adults, $10 for students 16 and under and kids are free. More info: surfingmuseum.org
A ballot initiative to lift California’s statewide restrictions on rent control has hit a key milestone, with 25 percent of the signatures it needs to qualify for the November ballot, the California Secretary of State’s office confirmed.
Organizers vowed to take their fight directly to the voters after a bill to repeal the restrictions died in its first committee hearing this year at a raucous January meeting attended by over 1,000 people on both sides of the contentious issue.
At issue is Costa Hawkins, a law the Legislature passed in 1995 under pressure from landlords and developers. Those groups sounded alarms being echoed today that rent control only makes the problem worse by slowing development and constraining the supply of housing.
“We just think it’s going to worsen the affordability crisis in the long term,” said Debra Carlton, a spokeswoman for the California Apartment Association, which sponsored Costa Hawkins more than 20 years ago.
Costa Hawkins prohibits cities from applying rent control ordinances to condominiums, single family homes or new construction — anything built after 1995 or after a city first established rent control. It also bans what is known as “vacancy control,” which means capping a landlord’s ability to hike the rent after a tenant moves out and another moves in.
But with rents escalating quickly, evictions on the rise, and one-third of renters — 1.5 million households — spending half of their paychecks on rent, the movement to repeal the law has picked up steam.
“There is overwhelming support for this initiative on the ground. Californians are anxious to see solutions to the housing crisis that can actually provide immediate relief today to families facing skyrocketing rents and displacement from their homes,” Jose Sanchez, of the LA Tenants Union, said in a news release this month on the campaign’s progress.
The repeal initiative was filed last fall by Michael Weinstein, president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, and the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, or ACCE Action. If it qualifies for the November ballot and passes, local elected officials would have much wider latitude in setting such policies. The initiative would not require cities or counties to impose rent control.
Organizers have a June 25 deadline to gather 365,880 signatures from California voters. The campaign reported Feb. 7 that it had collected a quarter of the required signatures and delivered them to the state for certification.
Share your thoughts and concerns about repealing rent control with Southern California News Group’s Jeff Collins. Email him at jeffcollins@scng.com.
Serge Ruffieux delivered a solid evolution on his debut collection for the house, building on his collage of a young eccentric Parisian girl with bourgeois leanings: an old lady and young girl together.
Out she came, looking super cool in her high-necked shirt and brooch, pleated granny skirt, wispy mohair knits and Pocahontas shoes.
He delivered new spins on his dresses with sporty T-shirt sleeves, and cropped hybrid outerwear pieces.
Men’s tartan shirts had shrunken volumes, like a boiled wool sweater coming out of the washing machine. Experimenting with weird proportions and volumes, the raw and the refined, he played with ruching, hand-stitching details and layering, pairing cropped knits and checked men’s shirts fused with beaded crochet lace.
Velvet yokes on coats embroidered with irises — much like the prints on the sleeves of the ruched velvet and satin dresses — felt a bit off like old wallpaper, which was exactly the point.
As with any designer who likes to create and take risks, there were some misses, like the skirts made from two rounded panels buttoned together, which were unflattering. And things veered a little goofy at times. But the new Carven mademoiselle continues to take shape nicely with the feeling that, despite the
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Tamara Ralph presented her second ready-to-wear collection in Paris, where she shows her couture line. “Paris is really the heart of the brand,” she said. “It’s where we build our couture brand from, and even though we’re London-based, Paris really is part of our DNA.” She noted the collection’s emphasis on daywear for the woman who’s constantly traveling to different climates and transitioning from day-to-evening, which decodes to clothes that the average woman would have no use for before cocktail hour, let alone on a daily basis. Then again, Ralph & Russo does not service a bunch of average Janes — their client list can be cross-referenced with couture show attendees and red carpet VIPs.
There was a lovely slim ivory windowpane dress that draped around the neck and was cinched with a glossy black belt. Tonal hound’s tooth was blown up on a grand hourglass ivory coat with a black collar and belt. Men’s suit fabrics got the vamp treatment on a jacket with a burgundy fur collar and pencil skirt unzipped up to the thigh. There was a gold, foiled trench dress and a liquid lamé cocktail number that draped over the model’s curves and tied around the neck.
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Manish Arora zeroed in on the hot pink and bright orange of his rainbow palette for fall and used them to show how the digital world might look when transposed to the physical.
There were hearts everywhere, the occasional set of fangs and drips of blood, an endless range of cute emoji purses — round, sequined little numbers — and Tuzki sprang to life. China’s famous emoji character sat in the front row, tipping his enormous bobble head as models walked past, tapping his very short arms to the music.
Kimono-style jackets provided structure, as did a series of thick pillow-like scarves, knotted once, one end poking up and the other down. This was the grounding force in a world splashed with images, color and textures of all sorts, in Arora tradition.
Pant legs were cinched at the ankles, and dresses were long, often paired with short bomber jackets. Fabrics provided further contrast. A loose, faded jean jacket was embellished with flowers and carp with shimmery fins, worn with a long, pleated skirt covered with a layer of organza in the back. Completing the Japanese-inspired look, models were sent down the runway on wooden block sandals, painted brightly to match the collection.
Tuzki was
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Effortless is not a word immediately associated with Paco Rabanne, a man who made his name on his famed 12 Unwearable Dresses collection. During Julien Dossena’s tenure, he’s done much to usher the brand into the modern era while keeping loyal to its plastic-fantastic roots. The fall lineup was full of the traditional Paco Rabanne geometric paillette embroidered assemblages and chain mail on slipdresses, tanks, tunics and shower sandals. “It’s plastic but you see it move,” said Dossena backstage. “It’s really like a living material. We wanted to give easiness and lightness to the assemblages.”
The result wasn’t quite effortless (plastic discs, squares and strips, no matter how easy to slip on, have a hard edge) but it brought the Rabanne aesthetic closer to reality than perhaps it’s ever been. Dossena focused on a side of the house that’s not always discussed — it’s Parisian through and through. To that end, he mined the chic tropes native to the city — mariner stripes, the perfect trench, an immaculately tailored camel coat, seductive lingerie, shearling, even a bourgeois twinset — and interspersed them with the shimmying fantasy embroideries. By doing so, Dossena struck an impressive equilibrium, imparting the basics with a touch
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Cinematic reality and the idea of one woman giving voice to different aspects of her personality. Those parallel thoughts ran through Natacha Ramsay-Levi’s mind as she worked on her second collection for Chloé. During a preview, she referenced French actress Stéphane Audran, whom, she said, often wore Karl Lagerfeld’s Chloé, and, to her second point, Cindy Sherman. Ramsay-Levi said that, unlike last season’s “table of contents of different women,” here, she focused on “going deep into the identity of one woman, the fact that we like to dress up and we like to change and we like to sometimes show one side of our personality and sometimes another side.”
The notion of one woman channeling multiple aspects of her character via clothes didn’t necessarily translate. But no matter; this collection was focused and interesting, if at times overwrought. At least as indicated in her debut, Ramsay-Levi is no fashion romantic. It’s her challenge to lure the Chloé customer with something as compelling as the tony, bohemian chic of the Clare Waight Keller era. Still, she’s not reckless. In don’t-throw-out-baby-with-bath-water mode, here, Ramsay-Levi embraced the brand’s long-running reputation for airy volumes. Instead, she delivered a specific take, unfussy but not at all simple,
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TRUE BLUE MEMORIES: Olympic gold medalist snowboarder Jamie Anderson made a drive-by at one of Times Square’s lesser-known destinations Thursday morning — WE TV’s pop-up “Bridezillas” Museum of Natural Hysteria.
As the first American woman to win two gold medals in snowboarding — first in Sochi and last month in Pyeongchang, Anderson has reason to hit the “Scream Booth,” but her placidness didn’t really translate. “I went in there but I had no energy to scream. I don’t like screaming. I did a little silent one. I was only an ‘Agitated Angel’ but I tried my hardest.”
Still running after appearances on “Ellen,” “Conan,” “The Chew” and a Wednesday night red-eye flight, Anderson will be checking in with The Players’ Tribune before hitting the Ralph Lauren store in SoHo tonight with a few of her fellow Team USA athletes. Wearing a Ralph Lauren white button down shirt, distressed black jeans and no-brand scubalike sneakers she bought in a thrift store in South Korea, Anderson started a conversation about her Olympic experience with “I am so grateful,”dragging out the adjective for effect. “Look” she said pulling her 2018 gold medal from a back pocket and handing it over. In addition to locking up
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CLUB KIDS: David Beckham hosted a party on Wednesday night to mark the launch of his new men’s grooming brand, House 99. Hosted in London’s warehouse club Electrower, the evening featured performances by Loyle Carner and DJ sets from Nick Grimshaw and Josh Ludlow.
Grimshaw, who arrived with his trademark quiff, said he was eager to try some of Beckham’s new products. “He just looks good, doesn’t he? He is one of those people who you can’t fathom why or what makes them incredible. Maybe with this launch, I can get some of that,” the BBC presenter said.
Regarding his playlist for the night, Grimshaw said he had free rein. “I asked if there were any special requests, but David said he trusts me.” His picks included Donna Summer’s disco hit “I Feel Love” and British Grime anthem “It Ain’t Safe” by Skepta.
Of the brand he created with L’Oréal, Beckham said: “For me, grooming is not only about how you look, but how you feel. It’s about being comfortable, trying new things and shaping your next look.” One of the brand’s catchphrases, ”Welcome to your new look” appeared in colossal neon letters on a wall.
The world of experimental hairstyles and changing looks
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Aymeline Valade is taking a break from movie-making, fed up of the types of roles she is offered, she revealed at the Paco Rabanne show Thursday afternoon. “I’m sick and tired of being offered slutty roles,” she said. “In the cinema, there are no interesting roles.”
Instead, the model and actress — who is also a classically trained dancer — is focusing on her performance work.
“I’m creating two performances, one hopefully for the end of this year and the other for next year. One is based on body language and expression, and the other on movement.”
Further down the front row, Nicolas Ghesquière was chatting away to retired Japanese soccer star Hidetoshi Nakata, whose current projects include his own sake brand and his designs of glasses for drinking the traditional liquor.
“There are so many Japanese restaurants all over the world, and the sake industry is becoming bigger and bigger, but no one knows about it, I help with the branding and the marketing,” he said. “It’s about culture.”
His favorite tipple? “Forty-generation sake,” he said. “It’s more than 400 years of history.”
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