Tiny Ideas

From the photo series I have a tiny idea by Dorota Majzer

It's WAR | Hope For The Future

GARY WAR

Polaroid Portrait by Steve Martinez | No. 5

Polaroid Portrait by Steve Martinez | No. 4

Polaroid Portrait by Steve Martinez | No. 3

Polaroid Portrait by Steve Martinez | No. 2

Polaroid Portrait by Steve Martinez | No. 1

All Eyes on Hotel De Ville | HDV in Metro.pop

All Eyes on Hotel De Ville
by Morgan C. Schimminger

Tickle the ivories, appreciate vintage photography and hobnob with stylists scrounging for throwback eyewear. Hotel De Ville Vintage Eyewear is the place to go optically old-school, boasting an inpressive deadstock selection. The boutique caters to the retro connoisseur with a range of 20th century orginial models including couture runway pieces.

"Customers can expect to want to try on every frame in the shop, and will definitely feel transported to another time, " professes Eva Kant, HDV director of communications.

The basic black opthalmic frame and cat eye will always be mainstays, but the dramatic 70s designs are hot commodities. "There is a lot of draw to 80s frames as well, especially masculine styles, the rounds, for both men and women, " Kant explains.

Rest assured you'll pick up a treasured pair since the shops cater to fit and fuction as much as to style. If you're looking to converse about Cazal, just touch base with a Hotel De Ville Optician. These spec-historians will be happy to engage.

Metro.pop Magazine

Peepol Undatha Stares | PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS!

HDV Salutes the Retro Lifestyle of People Under The Stairs

TOMORROW! Andy Wolf Trunk Show @ HDV Beverly | December 17th 6-9pm

Andy Wolf Trunk Show at HDV Beverly
December 17th | 6-9pm

In conjunction with the Beverly Boulevard Holiday Shopping Event

Hey Mr. Tambourine Man | Eyewear of Fairfax Village

Street eyewear spotted on Fairfax and Rosewood, around the corner from the HDV boutique.

A few views of HDV Fairfax below...

Visit HDV Fairfax on Rosewood, next door to The Hundreds, in Fairfax Village.

Views from HDV Beverly | 2009

Hotel De Ville on Beverly Boulevard

Wintour Weather is Almost Here | Anna in Chanel

I'm an ice queen, I’m the Sun King, I’m an alien fleeing from District 9 and I’m a dominatrix. So I reckon that makes me a lukewarm royalty with a whip from outer space.
-Anna Wintour

Portrait of the Artist as a Cartoon | Lynda Barry

Lynda Barry is an American cartoonist and author best known for her weekly comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek. Barry's cartoons often view family life from the perspective of pre-teen girls from the wrong side of the tracks. At The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington she met fellow cartoonist Matt Groening, who first published Ernie Pook's Comeek in the school paper without her knowledge.

While Barry's work is humorous, the undertones are usually serious. It depicts life as harsh but occasionally joyful. Her work addresses themes of intolerance and psychic pain. She has an extreme facility in reproducing the voices of children and adolescents. While unconventionally rendered, they carry an undeniable psychic charge legible in the context of her writing.

For a time, she dated Ira Glass who moved to Chicago in 1989 to be with her. She currently lives in Wisconsin and is married to a prairie restoration expert. Go Lynda!