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Los Angeles Fashion Week is underway with a lineup that is—so far—approaching 70 events, including runway shows, presentations, parties and pop-up stores.

(For those who say “L.A. doesn’t have a fashion week,” I say “HA.”)

Calling the Great Recession a big party pooper might be the understatement of the past 18 months. Some fashion-week fandangos aside, there has been a dearth of big fashion parties since the financial meltdown of September 2008.  That’s why the March 12 grand-opening party for Echo Park Independent Co-op (E.P.I.C.), a store devoted to emerging Los Angeles designers, seemed like the good times of 2007 or hopefully a peek into the very near future.