Rodeo Drive®, now world-renowned, began as little more than a bridle path. Pioneering designers, hoteliers and entrepreneurs transformed it into a rival to New York’s Fifth Avenue — with sun, palm trees and Hollywood sizzle. Rodeo Drive – The Podcast brings you the stories of the people who imagined the inimitable, three-block stretch in Beverly Hills, bringing showmanship and glamour to retail excellence. Listen behind the scenes to conversations with fashion, design, art, architecture and…
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Fifty years ago, Fred Hayman, founder of the legendary Beverly Hills boutique and fragrance Giorgio, had a big idea: to transform Rodeo Drive into America's answer to London's New Bond Street, Paris’s Faubourg St-Honoré and Rome's Via Condotti. So he founded a group of retailers and hoteliers devoted to realizing this vision. Now, the Rodeo Drive Committee celebrates a half-century for the three…
Italian style and craftsmanship are synonymous with Rodeo Drive, evidenced in Canali, the luxury menswear brand that just reopened its flagship lifestyle store on the high fashion Beverly Hills thoroughfare, with a party attended by some of LA’s leading men, including Chace Crawford, Paul Downs, James Marsden, and Regé-Jean Page. The company is helmed by Stefano Canali, the third generation…
Thirty years ago high schoolers dressed down, and then came the movie Clueless . In her yellow plaid kilt and many other colorful and stylish outfits, Cher Horowitz, the good-natured if meddlesome high-schooler played by Alicia Silverstone, made audiences laugh with her, love her, and envy the looks created by costume designer Mona May. “Everybody dressed grunge in 1994 when we were preparing the…
Jennifer Smith was halfway through high school when she visited California with her parents and decided to stay. A decade later, she conceived and launched C Magazine , a must-read publication that highlights the people and places that make California the Golden State. Then came the 2025 wildfires, destroying her Malibu home and those of many friends in her C community. Did that dim the lights on…
Rodeo Drive has gone wild. Visitors to the luxury street have fallen in love with eight colorful, life-size sculptures of animals – Wild Kong, Standing Bear, Panda and Crocodile – designed by the French artist Richard Orlinski, and part of this summer's “Rodeo Drive Celebrates Fashion”. But sculptures are only part of Orlinski’s multifaceted output. He was the artist of record at the 2024 Olympic…
For over 100 years Women’s Wear Daily has been the bible for the fashion industry, and its archives include numerous hidden contributions of Black designers and models. Now that history has been gathered in a stunning new book, BLACK IN FASHION , by Tonya Blazio-Licorish and Tara Donaldson, showcasing the indelible influence of Black culture on a global scale. On Episode 5 of Rodeo Drive-The…
Watchmaking may date back two centuries but in the hands of Maximilian Büsser, it has been revived as a contemporary art form. Büsser is the founder of MB&F, or Max Büsser and Friends, which he describes as a “horological concept laboratory.” Now MB&F has opened a gallery on Two Rodeo Drive, filled with his collective’s kinetic art and mechanical art devices, like World Sky by Breakfast Studio…
Since the beginning of time, humans have sought the secret to eternal youth and beauty. One company that believes it has gotten closer to cracking the code is La Maison Valmont , the luxury Swiss skincare brand that will open a boutique on Rodeo Drive on July 15. La Maison Valmont, founded in 1985, will offer Rodeo Drive clientele its trademark five collections – hydration, luminosity, vitality,…
As the heat of summer rises on Rodeo Drive, how better to stay cool and chic than in the most versatile, enduring and fluid garment of all time –– the Caftan! So says the man with more than thirty of them, Cameron Silver, author of the new book Caftans: From Classical to Camp. Silver talks with Rodeo Drive - The Podcast host Lyn Winter about the history, design and appeal of the caftan, which he…
The holiday season is in full swing and boutique windows are glittering on Rodeo Drive. So who better to talk to right now than the famed window dresser, Simon Doonan! When he was creative director at Barney’s, Doonan never missed an opportunity for maximal effect with storefront displays that transformed fashion retail into spectacle. Now he is a writer and eminence on all things style-related –…
