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Last year, Southern California’s top high school athletes were honored with help from ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel, FOX’s Erin Andrews and Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts in the 2016 SoCal Prep Legends Awards.

Another year of game-winning touchdowns and walk-off home runs has passed, which means it is time to do it again. On June 11 at the Sports Museum of Los Angeles, winners of 11 categories will be honored, including Male and Female Athlete of the Year, Male and Female Scholar Athlete of the Year, Most Inspirational and Most Outstanding Individual Performance.

In the coming weeks, the Southern California News Group will announce the nominees for the 11 categories. The event will be hosted by KABC sportscaster Rob Fukuzaki, and former Lakers great James Worthy is scheduled to speak to the honorees. KABC-7 will air the event at 6:30 p.m. on June 24.

This year’s event is expected to include the same kind of stardom as last year’s production, which had the Rams, Dodgers and Galaxy play big parts in the show.
For more information on the event, announcements of finalists, and to participate in fan votes, visit the Socal Prep Legends website.

2017 SoCal Prep Legends Awards
June 11: Awards presentation at the Sports Museum of Los Angeles
June 24: KABC-7 TV special, 6:30 p.m.
More information: socalpreplegends.com

Members of La Habra High’s Class of 2017 celebrated the end of their high school careers with a commencement ceremony on Wednesday, May 24.

NEWPORT BEACH — A Newport Beach neighborhood was flooded with as much as 2 feet of water Wednesday night after a seawall was damaged by a construction crew, authorities said.

A contractor was doing demolition work at a house in the 500 block of 36th Street on Balboa Peninsula on Wednesday — the time was not given — and accidentally damaged the wall, according to Newport Beach Fire Department Battalion Chief Brian McDonough.

When high tide came in about 8:52 p.m., the water rushed through the compromised sea wall and into the neighborhood.

The top 18 to 24 inches of the seawall was damaged by the construction crew, McDonough said. Water made it into just one home, he said, but about 15 to 20 homes in the Finley Avenue neighborhood off 36th Street had water in their yards. Residents were allowed into their homes, he said.

“The whole neighborhood was out laughing and having a good time,” said resident Stephanie Snead. “People were initially concerned, but it (the flooding) brought the whole neighborhood out.”

Fire and Municipal Operations department crews worked to pump water away from homes and put up sandbags to keep water out of homes, McDonough said.

When the tide lowers, a temporary seawall will be built out of sandbags until a permanent structure can be built, according to McDonough. The low tide is set to be at 3:47 a.m. Thursday, according to AccuWeather.

Snead and other residents said a construction crew tore down the house to the right of 517 36th Street about five or six days ago. That lot, where the seawall was breached, was empty Wednesday night, with a Hill Construction vehicle nearby.

36th Street was closed to traffic between Short Street and Finley Avenues, but has since reopened, McDonough said. Most of the flood water had receded by around 11 p.m.

#BREAKING #NewportBeach neighborhood flooded after seawall is destroyed pic.twitter.com/p2VHRrZz5j

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Fendi prefers ongoing narratives to short stories and long relationships rather than fleeting love affairs. This approach is demonstrated not only in the 52-year collaboration between the house and its creative director Karl Lagerfeld, but also in the label’s design approach.
Instead of constantly seeking for new, extravagant seasonal themes, lineup after lineup, Fendi prefers to build a solid fil rouge through its collections.
Lagerfeld picked up the sartorial mood of his fall collection and brought it back for resort in a charming new version. The men’s tailoring seen in the house’s fall runway show was refreshed and elaborated here through a flamboyant, pop attitude. A magnified chevron pattern was splashed on a feminine fluid silk dress softened by a plissé detail and maxi checks appeared on a printed wool coat with coordinated pants. These pieces were all worked in bold fuchsia tones – ‘wow’ effect guaranteed.
Neon touches also peppered the most feminine part of the collection, with orange flowers embroidered on the cream and blue botanical jacquard crafted into a flounce skirt and a bomber, revealing the graphic Fendi Roma logo on the ribbed knitted cuff.
For those looking for fur, the house displayed its unique skills by delivering myriad options, spanning from

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The activewear market shows no signs of slowing down — and Bandier wants to capitalize on the craze.
The retailer has just raised $4.5 million in funding from Simon Ventures and friends and family, according to Neil Boyarsky, Bandier’s chief executive officer, to both scale a fast-growing e-commerce business and open stores in key markets.
An industry source said the brand is on track to do $20 million at retail in 2017, the retailer’s second full year in business, with sales split almost evenly between dot-com and in-store. E-commerce commands 45 percent of overall sales, up from 20 percent last year, Boyarsky said. In a year from now, though, he expects the ratio to flip, with bandier.com driving 55 percent of the business and the rest coming from freestanding stores.
With a network of five doors — four in New York and one in Dallas — Boyarsky is ready to take on the West Coast. Los Angeles is the next city on tap for Bandier, he said, where a flagship will open by year’s end.
“It’s not that we think stores are unimportant.…We think about our business growing through the web and letting that inform where we open stores. That to us is an indication of where

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Jason Wu’s name will not be on the resort schedule this season. Instead of showing the collection to press during the late May-early June schedule, he will show his resort collection during his spring runway show. Pre-fall will be combined with Wu’s fall runway collection, although he will continue to show the pre-seasons to buyers during the traditional markets.
This shift is the latest in a series of baby steps Wu has taken — including scaling back his runway show to a small, intimate production — to alleviate some of the confusion and clutter that has bogged down the luxury market.
“People are basically inundated with too many things and too many stories,” he said. “The fast-fashion world can turn product around so quickly, and it’s not very expensive product, but I don’t think luxury should try to compete with that. It doesn’t make sense.”
Essentually Wu is streamlining his message to two key stories a year — spring and fall — instead of four. He’ll have the same amount of product for the resort delivery, which will be called spring one and it will be designed to coordinate with the runway collection, something that he finds liberating from a creative perspective.
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Frederick Anderson, is taking an interesting approach to launching his label. Fall 2017 was Anderson’s debut collection. Titled Black.like.me, it was a lineup of mostly black garments inspired by his identity as an African-American. Per traditional retail cycles, it will go on sale in August. But in the meantime, Anderson, who is the former co-owner and cofounder of Douglas Hannant and former president of Hanley Mellon, has whipped up a spring collection that will launch direct-to-consumer Memorial Day weekend via his web site frederickandersoncollection.com.
“This is filling the void between [the fall shows] and August,” said Anderson. “I didn’t want to stop the momentum.”
While fall was a reflection of the designer’s race, spring is based on his summer experiences in the Hamptons. It’s lighter, literally, as the entire collection was done in shades of white. Anderson throws a white party each summer. He also wove some of the region’s history, specifically the Shinnecock tribe of Native Americans who originally owned the land. Those references came through on shredded lace and fringed details on cropped tops, shorts and robes.
Regardless of Anderson’s overarching themes, the collection is perfect for summer parties in the Hamptons and beyond. His fabrics — cotton tweeds, laces and

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DREAM TEAM: Cooper & Ella, the contemporary sportswear brand, will launch the Cooper & Ella x Dream beach cover-up collection in partnership with The Beach at Dream Downtown hotel at 355 West 16th Street in New York.
The company has teamed with bloggers Krystal Bick of This Time Tomorrow, Grace Atwood of The Strip and Christine Cameron of My Style Pill on the collection, creating a namesake print for each. The collection includes three styles: a flowing caftan ($88), a tunic ($78) and pareo with mini bag ($55). Each style is offered in the girls’ namesake prints: The Krystal, The Grace and The Christine.
Starting June 8, the collection will be sold at the Cooper & Ella x Dream pop-up shop at The Beach at Dream Downtown throughout the summer, as well as cooperandella.com. Through Cooper & Ella’s Empower give-back initiative, the brand will donate 10 percent of proceeds from sales of the collection to 100 cameras, which empowers kids worldwide to share their stories through photography.
“The Beach at Dream Downtown is a resort oasis in this city we work and call home. Like Cooper & Ella, it’s modern, stylish and fun; special, yet approachable. It’s the perfect platform to connect and interact

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NEW YORK — Downplaying her work ethic and from-the-ground-up experience, 3.1 Phillip Lim chief executive officer Wen Zhou told a group of soon-to-be graduates Wednesday morning, “I still don’t know what I’m doing.”
That was unfounded, considering she and the designer amassed $2.6 million in sales alone in the company’s first season 12 years ago. Zhou’s easygoing manner and straightforward answers went over well with students listening in to her Q&A with WWD executive editor Bridget Foley. The discussion was part of the Fashion Future Graduate Showcase, an inaugural event started by the Council of Fashion Designers of America and the New York City Economic Development Corp.
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In the Eighties, Zhou moved with her family from a village of 50 in China to public housing in New York’s Lower East Side and continued to live there until age 25. Speaking only Mandarin presented its own challenges in the U.S., and that was intensified by the fact that Cantonese was the predominant language in Chinatown. She went to work at the age of 12. “My parents, grandmother and I all worked at 54 Canal Street — the classic New York sweatshop. I cleaned seams

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