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Here’s something you don’t see every day…(at least not in my 13 years working in the heart of the Los Angeles Fashion District)…a parade of cows.

Marching to the rhythmic thunk of a cowbell, a small herd of protesters dressed as cows and about a dozen more waving signs staged a demonstration in front of the California Market Center today during the Los Angeles Fashion Market.

In recent seasons, we’re not heard much from the 824 Building—one of the eight (!) showroom buildings in the Los Angeles Fashion District.

For those who are keeping tally at home, that’s the California Market Center, The New Mart, the Cooper Design Space, the Gerry Building, the Lady Liberty Building, the Academy Awards Building, the Primrose Building and the afore-mentioned 824 Building, located at 824 (get it?) S. Los Angeles St.

Could this be the end of the deluge?

Late Wednesday afternoon, there was a rare sight in Los Angeles' Fashion District. The sun came out long enough to form a rainbow over the area.

Vendors in Santee Alley have been having a particularly hard time with the rain. The alley was no longer an alley. It was a river. And merchants were spending more time mopping up store floors and tipping rain water off flimsy plastic awnings than attending to customers.

If you really want to see where the holiday shopping throngs are congregating, try visiting the venerable Santee Alley in the heart of the Los Angeles Fashion District. Wedged between Santee and Maple streets, the four blocks with a bazaar-like atmosphere is known for everything cheap and trendy or kncoked off.

Shoppers in Los Angeles' Fashion District have seen improvements to Santee Alley, bus stops and even sidewalks thanks to a project spearheaded by the Los Angeles Fashion District. The $1.3 million project culminated this month with the installation of custom crosswalks at the corners of Los Angeles and Olympic and Main Street and Olympic. In total, 12 intersections received special treatment.