L.A. STORY October 16-20, 2005. Catering to downtown hipsters and red-carpet regulars alike, fashion designers—from Elsie Katz Couture to Ya-Ya—showed wearable shapes and luxurious details at L.A.’s Smashbox Studios during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week.
CALIFORNIA GIRLS & BOYS Sitting front row at the shows or attending parties elsewhere, celebrities Lindsay Lohan, Usher, Robert Downey Jr., Jeremy Piven, Val Kilmer, Rachael Leigh Cook and many more supported the West Coast fashion scene.
THIS IS HOLLYWOOD Fashion Week’s nightlife actually kicked off Saturday, October 15 with an actor, model, designer-attended party at Mr. Chow. On Sunday, Kidada Nash, Quincy Jones’s daughter, played hostess at a Mad Tea Party she threw at her dad’s pad for the fanciful Alice fashion line she created for Disney. And on Tuesday night, Nicole Richie and Mischa Barton toasted their favorite indie designer, Karen Zembos, at a party in her honor at the new Library Bar at the Roosevelt Hotel.

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