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MARCH 2025

THERE are book launch parties – then there are book launch parties. Holding a dinner for fifty in a flower-embewed private dining area of Spago immediately announces: “success”…
 
iHeart RADIO MUSIC AWARDS – A night at the Dolby Theater this past Monday night with one of the great stage shows (spectacles) in recent memory. The crowd came psyched and dressed.

MERLE'S CLOSET

NEVER A DULL MOMENT

MARCH 2025

WE have proudly released our first (in a series) mini-documentary covering Los Angeles designers. Numero Uno captures a Los Angeles favorite: Le Superbe.
 
THE Giorgio Armani traditional pre-Oscar party, always Saturday nights before Oscars, had its most starry night ever, all packed into the two floors of the Rodeo Drive boutique…
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MERLE'S CLOSET

Welcome to Merle’s Closet. Peak your head inside, follow the multi-hued brick road through some of my best vintage, archival and current pieces – not clothes – articles! Here you’ll find the annals of my writings for publications like The Hollywood Reporter, The New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar, The Daily Beast, W Magazine, Women’s Wear Daily, Cosmo, Marie Claire, The New York Post, Town and Country, Los Angeles Magazine, on a variety of subjects: running the gamut from culture to style to Hollywood – and whatever else interesting.

MERLE'S MOST RECENT ARTICLES

ARMANI OSCAR PARTY

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED | MARCH 3RD, 2025

ANTHONY VACCARELLO

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED | FEB 28TH, 2025

TAYLOR SWIFT

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED | FEB 8TH, 2025

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LEATHER & LATHE

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED | FEB 4TH, 2025

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Forget Billy on The Street. ICandyLA’s chasing down folk on the streets of L.A. – and buzzy events – finding the
fashionable you won’t catch a full length glimpse at in their cars.
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Because of the copius amounts of stunningly dressed L.A. people we were obliged to break our photo sessions down to individual months so as not to overload our server. Simply select the ARCHIVE button on the EVENTS tab or click button below. 

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