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Last night there was a holiday shopping party at West Hollywood’s retail district The Avenues. Tonight, Dec. 8, another prominent shopping district, Los Angeles’ West Third Street, will be producing its Annual Neighborhood Holiday Party.

Exterior of The Fashion Society pop up shop.

West Hollywood shopping always was pretty good, but it  became red hot over the past few years, what with top flight designers such as Alberta Ferretti and Vivienne Westwood coming to town and high fashion shops like Arcade setting down stakes.

There’s been another pepper-spray shopping incident, 10 days after Walmart shoppers in Porter Ranch, Calif., were attacked in what was described as a case of Black Friday “shopper’s rage.”

Now, we’re hearing about a new incident, this time in a Nordstrom store in Walnut Creek, Calif. In the recent case, shoppers pepper sprayed a thief who was trying to abscond with $10,000 in purloined purses and detained him until the police arrived.

Abbie Heppe (pictured above via Reddit) knit this brilliant sweater which combines the nativityscene with the recent UC Davis pepper spray incident. (Hat tip to MediaBistro).

First there was Black Friday, then came Cyber Monday. This year, several retailers kicked the Holiday shopping off on Thanksgiving night, although there’s no consensus on a catchy name for it (may I suggest “Early Bird Thursday”?)

Now off-pricer Liquidnation.com is getting in on the first days of Christmas race with “Restock Tuesday.”

Watch where you surf, employees!

A new survey, released just in time for the holidays, found 60 percent of companies plan to squelch online shopping during work hours by blocking employees’ access to e-tail sites.

Model Behavior: GAP's models showcase modern cuts and animal prints for the Fall/Holiday collections.

GAP previewed its latest lines at its downtown Los Angeles design studio Wednesday, featuring more fashion-forward looks for Fall and Holiday.

“Everything goes beyond denim and beyond indigo,” said Nicole King-Burroughs, designer for GAP’s women’s line.

Image via adesertfete

From all of us at Apparel News, we'd like to wish you happy holidays! Enjoy the sunshine (fingers crossed) and the good cheer!

If giving mass-produced gifts isn’t your thing, join L.A. neighborhood blog Mondette and curated vintage line L.A. Vintage Exchange for their Holiday Spree—an afternoon of cheap and chic shopping happening this Saturday, Dec. 18 from noon to 4 p.m. at the Space 15 Twenty retail space in Hollywood.

Today, Huntington Beach, Calif.–based e-tailer 80s Purple and Sunnyvale, Calif.–based social shopping site Kaboodle are teaming up for a giveaway for a $500 gift card to shop for merchandise on the 80s Purple website, which sells goods from hip brands such as Wildfox Couture, Hellz, Grey Ant and Dolce Vita.