Posts Tagged ‘ emporium ’

L.A.’s Children’s Clothing Stores, From Designer Boutiques To Fast-Fashion Emporiums

Jun 22nd, 2008 | By admin | Category: Fashion

The L.A. outpost of this high-fashion emporium stocks the company’s private label infant clothing line, featuring classic baby looks such as footie pajamas with baby blue or pink stripes ($36) and a snow-white ribbed cotton sweater-and-hat set ($68). The children’s department also features less dressy — but not much cheaper — fare, including Levi’s Capital [...]



A bit random

Apr 7th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Travel

I know a couple who spent four years planning a holiday. It wasn’t that it took four years to plan, they weren’t proposing a sponsored circumnavigation by rickshaw. Simply that they decided to have a proper holiday in four years’ time. With this decided, time and space went to work, and the years changed speed [...]



Following the LA hippy trail

Mar 26th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Travel

When the free-thinkers of post-war Los Angeles set about changing the world through meditation, rock ‘n’ roll, mysticism, organic food, ritual dancing and/or hallucinogens, it’s safe to assume that – at some time or other – they all passed through Topanga Canyon. Far enough from the suburbs to be considered wild, and sufficiently [...]



Grand designs in the Danish capital

Mar 19th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Travel

Denmark has long been renowned as a style and design Mecca. But only when we encountered a rhapsodic double-page spread on Danish designer rubbish bins in Sterling airline’s magazine on our flight to Copenhagen did we realise just how seriously the Danes took their reputation as design gods. Right enough, they were lovely looking receptacles [...]



Pale ale with epic flavours

Mar 4th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Foods

In line with the range of pale ales I have been trying this summer, todays beer is a pale ale packed with hops. It is Epic Pale Ale and is brewed in Auckland by Epic Brewing.
Epic Brewing is owned by Luke Nicholas, who was the brewer at Steam Brewing that supplied the Cock and Bull [...]