9 a. m. , studies platinum members indicates entry, 10 a. m. , gold members entry. Hollywood Shop Til You Drop Saturday: Local designer and fashion promoter Kami Shade holds her annual Shop Til You Drop in the Valley, offering items from 50 designers including My Girlfriend's Closet and Katra Designs, plus menswear and accessories. Fashion shows roll out every half hour, and guests can get makeovers and henna tattoos. To RSVP, e-mail fashion kamishade or call (818) 309-6490 hollywoodshop tilyoudrop . Sportsmen's Lodge (Empire Ballroom), 12833 Ventura Blvd. , Studio City 11 a. m to 3 p. m. elizabeth. khuri.
State officials in Baton Rouge said they were closing the center created to find residents missing after Hurricane Katrina. Officials and volunteers received reports of 13,400 missing people after Katrina hit Aug 29, 2005 . All but 136 were located. The Find Family Assistance Center helped locate residents scattered across the country in the chaotic evacuations. . THEY paint the faces of half the models at L. A Fashion Week, and now they want to paint yours too . Smashbox Cosmetics has created a limited-edition makeup collection with Petro Zillia, the L. A design house that just about pops with color . The lipstick and eye shades were inspired by the Spring '08 collection and will debut at Petro Zillia's runway show Thursday. Noni Tochterman, the line's pink-haired designer, wanted a really clean face with a really punchy lip, says Nina Van Arsdale, Smashbox's global head of public relations and events.
"The color for the lip is called 'Stunning,' " she says, "which is a pop of watermelon pink. "Bold color is no surprise coming from a designer known for fabric and prints in dizzying rainbow brights. Other items in the collection are a lash-thickening mascara and a black gel eyeliner. All are available for $18 to $22 beginning Thursday at smash box . . The biannual gathering of the fashion flock known as Los Angeles Fashion Week has finally shifted out of soul-searching crisis mode . After five years, it is at last looking a lot like the city itself: tapping into the celebrity ether to generate buzz, sprawling with events from Culver City to downtown, cultivating the whole eco-chic movement and bringing back some of its runway stars for a victory lap. In March, things weren't looking so good. Shows were at an all-time low, with just 23 scheduled for the tents at Smashbox Studios in Culver City, even including shows by an underwear company Two upstart fashion shows in downtown L. A Martin Sexton - martinsexton . were threatening to wrench the whole event away from its Culver City base. What a difference seven months can make. One of the downtown upstarts, Kitten Fashion Week, sponsored by the online Kitten magazine, has packed up and left.
The other, BOXeight, a downtown-centric arts organization, is looking less like a threat than an enhancement Nowthe BOXeight shows are taking place at the former St . Vibiana's Cathedral, with five shows added to the roster and the event morphing into a multimedia arts celebration. Back in Culver City, Smashbox, in partnership with event producers IMG, has turned the crank on the star machine, hoping that if celebrities turn out, the rest of the world will follow . That strategy will be unleashed tonight when Nicky Hilton brings her celebutante wattage to the tents when her Chick by Nicky Hilton line makes its runway debut, and when Randolph Duke, gown-maker to the stars, returns from a seven-year, self-imposed catwalk exile in front of an audience that will almost certainly include an A-list award-show client or two . On Tuesday, the new Whitley Kros label debuts in front of fans such as musician Beck and actor Giovanni Ribisi. It's a strategy that capitalizes on L Martin Sexton . A's strong suit, says Kelly Cutrone, the publicist consulting with the IMG/Smashbox partnership for the next two seasons . "When you do a show in Europe, getting a celebrity usually requires two first-class plane tickets, putting them up at the Ritz, giving them free clothes and possibly paying them," she says "Here, Cher can come down off the hill because she wants to.
and it doesn't cost the house a dime, and it's a huge payoff. "But in a city full of recognizable movers, shakers and socialite power brokers, it doesn't necessarily require Cher in the front row to be a success . Cutrone says bringing big names such as Petro Zillia and Jeremy Scott back to Los Angeles for a quasi-alumni tour (both are Cutrone's clients) allows the faithful to reconnect. "For someone like Jeremy who doesn't show in the U. S . anymore it allows us to capitalize on the cool-connect -- the Jacqui Gettys and Liz Goldywns of the world which in turn increases the brand awareness," Cutrone says. It's a strategic end run around the tension between New York fashion editors (such as Vogue editor Anna Wintour) who don't deign to set a stiletto inside the tents due to a dearth of big-name designers, and the designers who decline to show because so much industry press isn't there Martin Sexton - martinsexton . "The entertainment press is really what a lot of these designers are after," said Smashbox Studios co-founder Davis Factor . Martin Sexton tickets "If people just wanted to see the collections, they can download most of the stuff online .