Baker's Dozen
1. Today Space Exploration Technologies or SpaceX, the L.A. based private company headed by Elun Musk, launched a rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The Falcon 9 rocket was carrying The Dragon capsule with food supplies and scientific equipment to be delivered to the International Space Station (ISS), which orbits 250 miles above Earth. 2. MGMT.design and Thomas Wilder teamed up to create these illustrations inspired by the recent...
BAKER'S DOZEN
1. Karl Lagerfeld's latest black and white fashion film - Public Garden - showcases his graphics inspired Spring Summer 2013 Chanel collection.2. KAPOW! - A new book from Taschen chronicles The...
BAKER'S DOZEN
1. Helmut Newton's World Without Men - one of the first books he ever published - is coming out this month with exclusive journal entry-style texts and comments by Newton himself.2. Night time...
Baker's Dozen
1. As part of a window display at Barney's on Madison Avenue, Christian Louboutin high heels are suspended in a giant fish tank surrounded by real live goldies. This is eerily reminiscent of our...
BAKER'S DOZEN
1. Who says fashion is based around continuous consumption and waste? Karl Lagerfeld certainly wanted to abolish this perception when he presented Chanel's Spring 2013  collection. Models slid...
Baker's Dozen
1. Begining November 13th 2012, The National Museum of China in Beijing will be hosting a major exhibition dedicated to the house of Dior. Esprit Dior will pay homage to the legendary designer,...
Smooth Lines: Zelens' PHA+ Bio-Peel Resurfacing Facial Pads
Matthew Bedard
Sunday mornings are for brunch, not scraping last night’s mascara off your spider lashes. If you’re too tossed to give your face a good scrub down before bed, you’re going to need a product faster than soap and water.Zelens has you covered. We tried their PHA+ Bio-Peel Resurfacing Facial Pads and for a make-up cleanser on-the-go, we’re sold.  A quick swipe of the miniature pads and we felt cleansed enough to pass out. Plus, a little while...
Bumble and Bumble's Semisumo Hi-Shine, Low-Hold Pomade
Just when you think you did a hell of a job coiffing your locks in the morning, you see someone make an entrance into the Flaunt offices looking like the newest coolest bitch in town ‘cause her hair...
SMOOTH LINES: RUN THE WORLD (GIRLS)
 Resurrected from the 80s, the neon trend has been all the rage this season. Sadly, with the days of summer quickly dwindling away, and the fall months approaching faster than expected, it’s...
SMOOTH LINES: SPONGE LADI AVOKANTO AVOCADO OIL
Avocados have long been synonymous with summer. Once the temperatures rise and bikini season becomes more reality than a distant memory, the ripe "alligator pear" becomes a summertime staple. Rich in...
Smooth Lines: Natura Bissé Tolerance Enzyme Peel
As I find myself coming out from beneath the rock of the monolithic Denim Issue that we've been laboring over these past few months, it feels as if we are about to give birth to a beast. A beautiful...
Smooth Lines: Serge Lutens Water Lip Color
It’s happened to all of us.We’ve all fallen victim to lipsticks, glosses, and stains that defiantly travel to forbidden territories, leaving a mischievous trail on cheeks, clothing, and even lovers....
DRINKING PROBLEMS: Akvinta Vodka
You’re surrounded by a sea of personalities: red labels, green labels, black labels displayed on clear bottles, blue bottles, tall and short. What exactly is the difference between each one? Though you can't be sure of your competitors, you're confident in your own mix-ability.You’ve been through no less than five filtration processes. All your impurities have been removed. Baggage checked at the door. You promise to enhance, without dominating...
Drinking Problems: Prévu
The intensity of our mildly satirical conversation about the Amish corresponded roughly to the number of sips we took from our glasses of Prévu—the pomegranate-colored liquor invented by 27-year-old...
DRINKING PROBLEMS: DENIZEN RUM
Mariah Postlethwaite
Friday night on a budget. We've all had our moments of compromising quality for quantity, a common hindrance for those of us in our early twenties, so when the weekend rolls around, we occasionally...
DRINKING PROBLEMS: ION VODKA
FLA FANALE
  The sun’s bright rays burn through my bedroom blinds, rudely shaking me awake as I pull the sheets over my head, attempting to shield myself from the evil light. I’m hungover. Again. My...
Drinking Problems: Momokawa Sake
Caroline Pham
 It had been a calm weekend, devoid of whiskey and late nights, sensible and calm. The kind of weekend that didn’t quite feel normal to her any longer. She scanned the shelves. They were out of...
Drinking Problems: Russian Standard
Jacque Pardo
Although summer has officially surrendered to fall, and the interns here at Flaunt are talking about their Halloween costumes, the cool days and gentle sounds of the fallen leaves scurrying after...
Crowdsurfing: Wildcat! Wildcat!
John Sanossian
Cigarette smoke and an overkill of red lighting makes Bardot in Hollywood feel more intimate than the 350-500 capacity space is intended to feel. School Night!, an event held at Bardot every Monday night, brings hipsters, club kids, and Hollywood's finest trust fund babies together and stimulates their ears with new indie dance music.  This past Monday was no exception. That is, if you're willing (like we are) to disregard the two lack-...
Red Bull Music Academy Presents: Culture Clash Los Angeles
Aashiq Nazim
Salva and R.L. Grime remix "Mercy" with special guest Pusha TAs if putting the first skydiver into the stratosphere for a record freefall wasn’t enough, cult energy drink Red Bull has decidedly...
Day Zero? Sucka Please.
The world is ending, bitches. Are you aware of this? Are your bags packed? Are you ready to get dirty? No? Yes! Let’s get dirty like fucking bandits. Let’s steal into to one another and escape to the...
It's All Put So Placidly: Music for Sleeping Children
 Cyrilla Strothers Project, 2004-2006  photograph by Charlie White Music for Sleeping Children is out now. It's free. You can listen to it here. There're two people behind it (well, a...
Crowd Surfing: Ultraísta
Marisa Ringe
1. Reduction of the lyric element to its primordial element, metaphor2. Deletion of useless middle sentences, linking particles and adjectives.3. Avoidance of ornamental artifacts, confessionalism,...
Crowdsurfing: Beach House
Nigel Zeff
The Baltimore native dream-pop duo Beach House played a hypnotic 20 song set on Wednesday night at the Wiltern in Los Angeles. Their entrancing sound filled the lustrous Art-Deco landmark with a...
Finking Freaky: Roger Ballen Exhibits at Mouche Gallery
Wire Image
 Past rhinestone flutes of Moreno champagne and a vintage photograph of Faye Dunnaway poolside, Roger Ballen’s photography exhibition brought a decidedly different aesthetic to Beverly Hills’ Mouche Gallery last weekend.The installation, which Flaunt attended opening night, showcases Ballen’s photographs, shot on the set of South African rap-rave group Die Antwoord’s video “I Fink U Freeky.” Directed by Ballen, the now-ubiquitous music...
Flaunt x Le Baron Present One Night Only with Kitsuné in Coachella, CA
Quinn Ashly
For one night only Flaunt teamed up with French party royalty Le Baron to bring glistening debauchery to the Coachella Valley desert. We sipped Singha beer and cocktails courtesy Tito's Vodka and...
Flaunt Magazine + the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas Present "Do Not Disturb, Please Enter"
Bryan Steffy
Artists Bert Rodriguez, The Date Farmers and Theo-Mass LexileictousWhen in Vegas, a sock on the door knob is almost a given. But why not make it artsy, babes?  FLAUNT teamed up with The...
J.Lindeberg SS'13 Collection Launch at The Standard
Doug Neill
Douglas Neill and Ellen Von Unwerth Dan Regan and Mr.MonopolyLast night FLAUNT celebrated amid the seductive setting of The Standard West Hollywood, dancing to tunes provided by Wade Crescent...
Soirée with FLAUNT at the Sheats Goldstein House | Ceci n'est Pas & Art Los Angeles Contemporary |
Doug Neill
This weekend, FLAUNT saw its partnership with Ceci N'est Pas further accented at a right-angle free soiret at the John Lautner-designed Sheats Goldstein residence. Our co-pilot? Our dear pal Art Los...
Feast Your Eyes: International Art Fair Commences
The Barker Hangar in Santa Monica is an exceptional exhibition space—40 foot high ceilings top 40,000 square feet of wide open space. Today, it gets sexier:  Art Los Angeles Contemporary (ALAC)...
Print Media: Vidal Sassoon: How One Man Changed the World with a Pair of Scissors
Androgyny. Movement. Geometry. Simplicity. Words that now describe hair because of the man who changed the world with a pair of scissors. During the “Swinging London” of the 60s, Vidal Sassoon’s looks defined It girls such as Grace Coddington, Mia Farrow, Mary Quant, Peggy Moffitt and Nancy Kwan. Sassoon created and lived by the method that, “with a great haircut they could shake it, brush it, do whatever they wanted and it would fall into...
My Love for You, Possible or Accessible: Lovin' On the Flip-Side
Photos curtesy of Now Again Records
Now Again Record's "Loving on the Flipside: Sweet Funk and Beat-Heavy Ballads 1969-1977" comp is out, a decades long quest, collecting one-offs, rarities, and odd-ball gems that narrow in, focus and...
Print Media: Diana Vreeland After Diana Vreeland
PRESS
There comes a time in every woman’s life when a pivotal decision must be made: what color should I paint my nails? Should I be bold and choose blue, or stay classic with red? And even when red...
Print Media: Ayami Nishimura and Rankin
Rankin
Showcasing alluring artistry and creativity painted across human canvases, Japanese makeup artist Ayami Nishimura’s eponymously named book displays her unfettered imagination and provocative flair....
Print Media: Navy Seal Survival Guide
Here at Flaunt, survival is our base mode of thinking. It often entails which outfit to don for the night's shenanigans, juggling the various consequences oft associated with the antics of alcohol,...
Print Media: Magnificent baths - Private Indulgences from Baroque to Minimalist
Massimo Listri
It’s no secret that we at Flaunt like to indulge. One of our most irresistible indulgences you ask? Melting into a steaming hot, candle-lit, bubble bath with a goblet of wine, and/or a significant...
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Benjamin Goco
Behind the Iron Curtain: Marc Jacobs Fall 2013 at NYFW
Alex Covo
Behind the Iron Curtain: Rochambeau Fall 2013 at NYFW
Backstage: Elisa Hyman, Runway Images: Nouveau PR
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Jo Liu
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Tonx Coffee: Not Your Average Joe
Connie Shen
Tonx Coffee stands by their coffee. And then they pack it in a box and ship it...
Ryan Hemsworth and Daedelus: The...
Sean Berrigan
Aashiq Nazim
If you think the Harlem Shake was stupid, you're going to love this!