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A photo of photographers taking photos of Ben Cope, who's taking photos of Post’age denim.

BOXeight Fashion concluded its three-day run of live photo shoots on Sunday night. On the schedule was Gabby Applegate, photographed by Sam Hessamian; Kanvis, photographed by Robert Sigler; Post’age, photographed by Ben Cope; Future Heretics, photographed by Peter Gurnz; and a last minute change on the schedule: Orthodox was replaced by Zak, photographed by Catherine Asanov.

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.