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I've got primaries on the brain—and I’m not talking about the presidential race. I’m talking about primary colors. Lately I'm seeing everything in cheery shades of red, blue and yellow. The best part about this trend is the range of variations---from soft pink, sky blue and butter cream shades to vibrant marine, tomato and lemon hues.

I covered it as a textile trend earlier this year.

Madonna donned her best Valkyrie-wear for her Super Bowl performance

Actually, it was Givenchy and included at least four wardrobe changes and a cast of famous friends singing along, including Cee Lo Green, M.I.A., Nicki Minaj and the LMFAO guys.

Word from Facebook is that L.A.'s own Rami Kashou designed the gold and ivory gowns that opened the Vogue segment of the show. Congratulations, Rami!

Rami Kashou's gold and ivory gowns--front and center!

Let’s start with the bad news. L.A. designer Andrae Gonzalo has moved to New York. (Hmph, where’s Andrae, indeed.)

The good news is, he’s still sending his scoops out west. (Thank you, Andrae! Sorry for using the image above--but the T-shirt was too perfect to pass up.)

The Otis graduate, “Project Runway” alum and, ahem, former Los Angeles designer is designing for New York–based eveningwear line Mikael Aghal.

Natural Model Management

When it comes to model sizes, what exactly is “normal”?

Katie Halchishick has been a plus-size model and a quote-unquote normal model and now owns Los Angeles-based modeling agency Natural Model Management, founded “by models for models,” with the mission to “[values]models and their natural build and body size and encourage models to find a healthy balance in life and in their bodies.” 

 “Soul Train” creator Don Cornelius died today. Seems like a good time to remember the influence his iconic show had on music and fashion. 

Alternative Apparel will kick off Valentine’s Day a little early with a Valentine’s Day-themed party at their flagship store on Abbot Kinney in Venice.

The Feb. 11 event will be hosted by Glitter N’ Glue blogger Kristen Turner and will feature a performance by L.A. band The Peach Kings.

Perfect thing to stumble across right before the weekend. Tavi Gevison’s online magazine Rookie has a feature written by Rodarte designers, Laura and Kate Mulleavy, in which the two designing sisters discuss their favorite episodes of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”

This is geeky and good on so many levels.

For those of you with a really long Netflix queue, the two offer this helpful warning: “Spoilers like crazy throughout.”

JCPenney has been a lot of things in its 110-year history: Western merchant, discount retailer, purveyor of trendy fashion and catchy jingles, lone department store in my Grandma’s town in Colorado (“See if they’ve got it at Penney’s,” she used to say.)

Now we can add one more: Funny.

Apparently, there’s no end to the “sh*t” meme.  We stumbled across this one today. And I have to admit, it's pretty spot-on. And funny even with the sound off.

It plays a bit like the drag performance of ‘Ab Fab,” which, come to think of it, is something I’d pay to see. (I’m talking to you, Cavern Club players.)

And if that’s not enough for you, there’s a sequel.