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Last October, Del Amo Fashion Center completed a $200 million effort to restore Del Amo Fashion Center to the upper echelon of luxury shopping centers.
The “Grand Entrance” welcomes shoppers with a two-story square wall of glass with panes designed to cast shadows across the Grand Court’s curving, cream colored interior as the sun rises, until light and shadows can spill in from the enormous skylights. The skylights hover 61 feet over the main floor.
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Del Amo Fashion Center celebrates a $200 million remodel Friday morning, including a new 140,000 square foot Nordstrom.
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With Nordstrom setting the tone, Del Amo Fashion Center aims to restore its upscale reputation with a grand opening. The opening of the new 400,000 square foot mall, including Nordstrom and a “luxury” court is Friday, October 9.
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Before the Mall of America was built in the midwest, Del Amo Fashion Center, at 2.6 million square feet, was the biggest shopping center in the U.S. It boasts over 200 stores, a glut of restaurants and cafes and the 18-screen AMC movie theater. It’s also made its way onto the silver screen: The Del…
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Redondo Beach’s South Bay Galleria mall is likely losing its anchor store, Nordstrom, Inc. to neighboring Del Amo Fashion Center in Torrance at the end of store’s lease in 2015. In response, Redondo Beach officials filed a request for an injunction with the Los Angeles Superior Court, citing environmental and city code violations, alleging that…
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There was a time when The South Bay was where presidential candidates visited and shopping centers reined by Steve Fulton It’s 1975 and I’m 5 years old. We are at the Orange Julius. My mom and brother are here. We are sitting outside on plastic benches. Shaded by plastic umbrellas. Sipping cool drinks. As…
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“There was no art here. There was no fashion here, just all surfboards, and bikinis, wraps, and flip flops.” Homeira recalling her arrival in Manhattan Beach by Elka Worner Over the past two decades, art patron Homeira Goldstein has curated 35 shows at the Manhattan Beach Art Center featuring some of the country’s most…
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by Stephanie Cartozian and Kevin Cody Even a casual reading of the many magazine, and online articles about Peninsula High graduate Hillary Taymour invoke images of a strong-willed, defiant, Type A personality. The irony is those are the qualities Taymour rebelled against when she left the Peninsula for West Hollywood to become a fashion designer,…
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“Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful” Once fashionable fashion photographer on film “As a woman, I find your photos very misogynous,” says Susan Sontag to Helmut Newton. The photographer replies that he loves women. Sontag doesn’t buy it. “A lot of misogynous men say they love women, but show them in a humiliating way.”…
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Fashion in El Segundo
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Venus in Blue Jeans, a Ball Gown, and a Fancy Hat “Icons of Style: A Century of Fashion Photography, 1911-2011” at the Getty The late photographer Irving Penn described his role at Vogue as “selling dreams, not clothes,” because being stylishly attired often gave one the illusion that doors to one’s personal or professional life…
Read MoreOpenings at Del Amo and other malls have raised the bar in this category, but Tin Roof edged out the competition once again. They describe themselves as a “wine country bistro,” and you can imagine this place with a view of vine-covered hills rather than a parking lot. They have a bocce ball court for…
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The wind was offshore. The air and water were 70 degrees. And a south swell was delivering head high sets. But being Hermosa and being fall, the winter sandbars hadn’t formed and the waves were closing out close to shore for the Subaru Pacific Hotdoggers contest.
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The lane closures on Vista Del Mar have inspired South Bay residents to take a broader look at regional mobility policy. They don’t always like what they see. Part three of four Somewhere in the City Hall archives, the Manhattan Beach bike master plan sits neglected. The city approved the document around the year…
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