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Richard Avedon

Travel Some More

A Portrait of an Artist

Donuts to Go!

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They say sex is like a doughnut...

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EDITOR AND PUBLISHER: CLORINDA E.V. OCHOA MANAGING EDITOR: CLORINDA E.V. OCHOA EXECUTIVE EDITOR: CLORINDA E.V. OCHOA DESIGN DIRECTOR: CLORINDA E.V. OCHOA PHOTO DEPARTMENT: CLORINDA E.V. OCHOA CHAIRPERSON: CLORINDA E.V. OCHOA PUBLICITY: CLORINDA E.V. OCHOA MANAGING EDITOR: CLORINDA E.V. OCHOA EXECUTIVE EDITOR: CLORINDA E.V. OCHOA DESIGN DIRECTOR: CLORINDA E.V. OCHOA PHOTO DEPARTMENT: CLORINDA E.V. OCHOA CHAIRPERSON: CLORINDA E.V. OCHOA PUBLICITY: CLORINDA E.V. OCHOA MANAGING EDITOR: CLORINDA E.V. OCHOA EXECUTIVE EDITOR: CLORINDA E.V. OCHOA DESIGN DIRECTOR: CLORINDA E.V. OCHOA PHOTO DEPARTMENT: CLORINDA E.V. OCHOA CHAIRPERSON: CLORINDA E.V. OCHOA PUBLICITY: CLORINDA E.V. OCHOA MANAGING EDITOR: CLORINDA E.V. OCHOA EXECUTIVE EDITOR: CLORINDA E.V. OCHOA DESIGN DIRECTOR: CLORINDA E.V. OCHOA PHOTO DEPARTMENT: CLORINDA E.V. OCHOA CHAIRPERSON: CLORINDA E.V. OCHOA PUBLICITY: CLORINDA E.V. OCHOA

Hey BLUME readers! You’re flipping through pages and pages of an experience you can’t get from any other magazine. Follow me and my staff every month as we release the beauty of performing, body, and the finest of arts! You’ll get the experience and visual joy in multiple modern works of arts. Check out what else we have have to offer in our next October issue. See ya next month!

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WE ADORE FIFTH FLOOR WINDOWS INTO THE SURREAL

BY Hamish Bowles

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adder and more original than most of her contemporaries, Mme Schiaparelli is the one to whom the word ‘genius’ is applied most often,” Time magazine wrote of its cover subject in 1934.[1] Coco Chanel once dismissed her rival as “that Italian artist who makes clothes.” (To Schiaparelli, Chanel was simply “that milliner.”)[2]  Indeed, Schiaparelli—“Schiap” to friends—stood out among her peers as a true nonconformist, using clothing as a medium to express her unique ideas. In the thirties, her peak creative period, her salon overflowed with the wild, the whimsical, and even the ridiculous. Many of her madcap designs could be pulled off only by a woman of great substance and style: Gold ruffles sprouted from the fingers of chameleon-green suede gloves; a pale-blue satin evening gown—modeled by Madame Crespi in Vogue—had a stiff overskirt of Rhodophane (a transparent, glasslike modern material); a smart black suit jacket had red lips for pockets. Handbags, in the form of music boxes, tinkled tunes like “Rose Marie, I Love You”; others fastened with padlocks. Monkey fur and zippers (newfangled in the thirties) were everywhere. love of trompe l’oeil can be traced to the faux-bow sweater that kick-started Schiaparelli’s career and brought her quirky style to the masses. “Dare to be different,”[7] the advice she offered to women. Pace-setters rule-breakers waved that flag through sixties, the seventies, and beyond.

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DONUTS GO

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BY Hamish Bowles

hey say sex is like a doughnut: Even at its worst, is it ever really bad? Well, once you consume, in rapid succession, as many doughnuts as we have in the last few weeks, you start to believe it can be.

DECK: Of course there’s never a reason to eat a doughnut. No amount of self-delusion will allow you to believe that fruit filling is a dose of vitamins for the day. No, eating a doughnut is an act of pure pleasure-seeking, so if you’re going to have one, every bite should merit throwing a wrench in your otherwise clean-living diet. Dry, bland pastry need not apply. So as an act of public service, we scoured the city for the best doughnuts around, all worth the sugar crash you’ll inevitably experience later. We focused our search on actual doughnut shops, as opposed to restaurants that serve them on the menu -- with the exception of one, because if you’re going to order a doughnut from a waitress, it seems fitting to do so at a 24-hour diner. Turn the page for our list of the Top 10 doughnuts in L.A.

10. Maggie’s Donuts:

There’s one main reason to swing by Maggie’s, and that’s the custard-filled iced chocolate bar, which is so, well, custard-filled, it’s literally bursting. Served split down the middle, you get a peek before you eat at the erupting cool vanilla epicenter, which couples perfectly with the soft and sweet doughnut shell. Some of the custard will spill out onto your fingers, and you’ll lap it up, and you won’t care how that looks. 2612 E. Sixth St., Los Angeles; 213-383-1511.

9. Spudnuts:

Out of the chains around L.A., Spudnuts is our top pick. It’s a basic shop with a hefty handful of locations all around L.A. and the Valley. As such, it’s best to keep your order simple, too. If you’re gonna do chocolate, do it all the way with the chocolate-frosted and chocolate chip-topped chocolate doughnut. Even better, though, is the vanilla cruller, which is only lightly glazed, but manages to pack a really bright vanilla flavor. 2775 Van Nuys Blvd., Los Angeles; 818896-4678 8

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8. Du-Par’s:

Du-Par’s certainly isn’t a doughnut shop, but if you’re near the Grove location, it’s worth braving the highly congested parking lot to sample one of the few varieties this diner has on its menu. The classic glazed is a champion of its breed, puffed up to a thick, chewy consistency that requires serious jaw action for each bite. Du-Par’s gets the glaze just right too -- hardened barely past the point of sticky liquid to form something shy of a crust. The bear claw isn’t your run-ofthe-mill, boasting a delicious almond filling that’s reminiscent of baklava. And the fact that it’s served warm certainly doesn’t hurt. 6333 W. Third St., Los Angeles; 323-933-8446.

7. Ms. Donuts:

In the Echo Park/Silver Lake area, you could do a lot worse than this old-fashioned shop, especially when the line at Taco Zone is too long and you need some late night sustenance. The maple bar was a little on

Even at its worst, is it ever really bad?

the dry side, but the chocolate was the exact opposite -- in a good way -- with a texture that suggested it could have been cooked about 30 seconds longer, but we were glad it wasn’t. The Old-Fashioned doughnut is also a winner here, with glaze so thick it softly crunches as you eat it. 1353 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles; 213-484-0927.

6. BabyCakes:

The doughnuts at BabyCakes (and actually everything else at BabyCakes) are vegan, kosher, gluten-free, wheat-free, soy-free, casein-free, egg-free and sans refined sugar. In other words, any sane pastry-lover’s

nightmare. Or so you would think, but once you try one of its baked-not-fried doughnut varieties, the last thing on your mind will be anything its lacking. What you’ll taste instead is delicious gooey sweetness, along with a hint of lemon added for brightness. The salted caramel doughnut, though a mess of dense cake and sticky sauce, is really the best, but the coconut is also worth a try, since its flavor is mild enough for any non-coconut fan to get behind. 236 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles; 855-462-229

5. Bob’s Coffee and Doughnuts:

Bob’s has a vintage feel, as it should, since it’s located in the Original L.A. Farmers Market. And while not quite as old as the market itself, it’s been flinging outstanding little circular treats since 1970. Fitting to the ambiance, Bob’s has plenty of classic doughnuts, like the bear claw, the apple fritter and almighty glazed, but it’s not so set in its ways, shaking it up with a few new-school varieties like Nutella. The maple was our favorite, even among its many worthy competitors in town, perhaps because it came with the bonus of alfresco dining. Or maybe just because it was perfectly chewy and delicious. 6333 W. Third St., #450, Los Angeles; 323-933-8929. From blocks away, that massive doughnut structure on top of Randy’s beckons you, and on your way home from LAX, which is when many people see it, it’s hard to say no. So don’t -- listen to your gut, literally. Randy’s has everything you long to see on a doughnut menu: glazed, cake, twists, apple fritters, bear claws, you name it, and none is a bad choice. But out of these classics, the jelly doughnut is our top pick. Maybe we’ve maxed out on food porn lately, but doesn’t that hole through which it’s stuffed look like it’s puckering for a kiss? The jelly inside does not taste like it was made from muddled organic raspberries and sweetened with agave. No, it tastes like pie filling loaded with additives. But you know what? It’s delicious. And on the topic of fillings, be aware the “cream-filled” is actually custard-filled, which turns out to be all the better. 805 W. Manchester Blvd., Inglewood; 310-645-4707.

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LETS GO TO THE LAKE!

BY Clorinda Ochoa

f course there’s never a reason to eat a doughnut. No amount of self-delusion will allow you to believe that fruit filling is a dose of vitamins for the day. No, eating a doughnut is an act of pure pleasure-seeking, so if you’re going to have one, every bite should merit throwing a wrench in your otherwise clean-living diet. Dry, bland pastry need not apply. So as an act of public service, we scoured the city for the best doughnuts around, all worth the sugar crash you’ll inevitably experience later. We focused our search on aw isn’t your run-of-the-mill, boasting a delicious almond filling that’s reminiscent of baklava. And the fact that it’s served warm certainly doesn’t hurt. 6333 W. Third St., Los Angeles; 323-933-8446. 7. Ms. Donuts: In the Echo Park/Silver Lake area, you could do a lot worse than this old-fashioned shop, especially when the line at Taco Zone is too long and you need some late night sustenance. The maple bar was a little on the dry side, but the chocolate was the exact opposite -- in a good way -- with a texture that suggested it could

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have been cooked about 30 seconds longer, but we were glad it wasn’t. The Old-Fashioned doughnut is also a winner here, with glaze so thick it softly crunches as you eat it. 1353 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles; 213-484-0927. 6. BabyCakes: The doughnuts at BabyCakes (and actually everything else at BabyCakes) are vegan, kosher, gluten]everything you long to see on a doughnut menu: glazed, cake, twists, apple fritters, bear claws, you name it, and none is a bad choice. But out of these classics, the jelly doughnut is our top pick. Maybe we’ve maxed out on food porn lately, but doesn’t that hole through which it’s stuffed look like it’s puckering for a kiss? The jelly inside does not taste like it was made from muddled organic raspberries and sweetened with agave. No, it tastes like pie filling loaded with additives. But you know what? It’s delicious. And on the topic of fillings, be aware the “cream-filled” is actually custard-filled, which turns out to be all the better. 805 W. Manchester Blvd., Inglewood; 310-645-4707.fillings, be aware the “creamfilled” is actually custard-filled, which turns out to be all the better. 805 W. Manchester Blvd., Inglewood; 310-645-4707.

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EXPERIENCE THE MANY SIDES OF PRESLEY HOOD PRESLEY ALWAYS CARRIES A FOX TAIL WHEN SHE TRAVLES. SHE HAS DONE SO SINCE SHE WAS 8 YEARS OLD.

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ANY SIDES OF PRESELY YET, ONE IS MORE SO EXPLOITED. PRESLEY HAS A BRIGHTER SIDE TO OFFER.

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AVEDON A Portrait of an Artist

HAT DO JEAN GENET, JIMMY DURANTE, BRIGITTE BARDOT, GEORGIA O’KEEFFE, JACQUES COUSTEAU, ANDY WARHOL, AND LENA HORNE HAVE IN COMMON? THEY WERE A FEW OF THE MANY PERSONALITIES CAUGHT ON FILM BY PHOTOGRAPHER RICHARD AVEDON.

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For more than fifty years, Richard Avedon’s portraits have filled the pages of the country’s finest magazines. His stark imagery and brilliant insight into his subjects’ characters has made him one of the premier American portrait photographers. Born in New York in 1923, Richard Avedon dropped out of high school and joined the Merchant Marine’s photographic section. Upon his return in 1944, he found a job as a photographer in a department store. Within two years he had been “found” by an art director at Harper’s Bazaar and was producing work for them as well as Vogue, Look, and a number of other magazines. During the early years, Avedon made his living primarily through work in advertising. His real passion, however, was the portrait and its ability to express the essence of its subject.

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As Avedon’s notoriety grew, so did the opportunities to meet and photograph celebrities from a broad range of disciplines. Avedon’s ability to present personal views of public figures, who were otherwise distant and inaccessible, was immediately recognized by the public and the celebrities themselves. Many sought out Avedon for their most public images. His artistic style brought a sense of sophistication and authority to the portraits. More than anything, it is Avedon’s ability to set his subjects at ease that helps him create true, intimate, and lasting photographs. Throughout his career Avedon has maintained a unique style all his own. Famous for their minimalism, Avedon portraits are often well lit and in front of white backdrops. When printed, the images regularly contain the dark outline of the film in which the image was framed.

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Within the minimalism of his empty studio, Avedon’s subjects move freely, and it is this movement which brings a sense of spontaneity to the images. Often containing only a portion of the person being photographed, the images seem intimate in their imperfection. While many photographers are interested in either catching a moment in time or preparing a formal image, Avedon has found a way to do both. Beyond his work in the magazine industry, Avedon has collaborated on a number of books of portraits. In 1959 he worked with Truman Capote on a book that documented some of the most famous and important people of the century. Observations included images of Buster Keaton, Gloria Vanderbilt, Pablo Picasso, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Mae West. Around this same time he began a series of images of patients in mental hospitals. Replacing the controlled environment of the studio with that of the hospital he was able to recreate the genius of his other portraits with non-celebrities. The brutal reality of the lives of the insane was a bold contrast to his other work. Years later he would again drift from his celebrity portraits with a series of studio images of drifters, carnival workers, and working class Americans. Throughout the 1960s Avedon continued to work for Harper’s Bazaar and in 1974 he collaborated with James Baldwin on the book Nothing Personal. Having met in New York in 1943, Baldwin and Avedon were friends and collaborators for more than thirty years. For all of the 1970s and 1980s Avedon continued working for Vogue magazine, where he would take some of the most famous portraits of the decades. In 1992 he became the first staff photographer for The New Yorker, and two years later the Whitney Museum brought together fifty years of his work in the retrospective, “Richard Avedon: Evidence”. He was voted one of the ten greatest photographers in the world by Popular Photography magazine, and in 1989 received an honorary doctorate from the Royal College of Art in London. Today, his pictures continue to bring us a closer, more intimate view of the great and the famous. Avedon died on October 1st, 2004.

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