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Revenue doubled this past year, and the next is poised to see Goop continue to grow. It’s expecting to add to its already 200-plus staff with new roles in product and technology. With more product coming (new Goop brand products, the company’s fastest growing source of revenue, are in the pipeline) from more places (Goop […]

Recalling how Michelle Obama’s stylist [Meredith Koop] contacted J. Crew a few months before the 2013 inauguration looking for sketches for the First Lady and her daughters Sasha and Malia. “We said, ‘Absolutely. Of course.’ We sent tons of sketches, fabric swatches but the turnaround time was insane and they wouldn’t give us measurements,” Lyons […]

The top sale of 2018 was LVMH’s $245M purchase of this storefront on Rodeo Drive The biggest retail investment trades in Los Angeles this year were one of two kinds of property — prime Rodeo Drive storefronts or large retail parks with high occupancy and stable tenants. Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy’s two big purchases for […]

2018 was the year in which a few long-in-the-works projects—like the revamp of the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza or the reopening of the vacant Sunset/Gordon tower in Hollywood—won the city approvals needed to move forward. It was also a year when a potential record-breaker, a 77-story tower taller than the Wilshire Grand, was proposed and […]

Following a sweet and loopy opening set from Ruby Friedman, Wilson’s band brought all these numbers to life admirably on Thursday, whether it was the sleigh bells — not just one, but two sets going at times — French horn, clarinet, flute, roller-rink organ, saxophones, xylophones and other instrumental color each song calls for, all […]

Following a sweet and loopy opening set from Ruby Friedman, Wilson’s band brought all these numbers to life admirably on Thursday, whether it was the sleigh bells — not just one, but two sets going at times — French horn, clarinet, flute, roller-rink organ, saxophones, xylophones and other instrumental color each song calls for, all […]