By Harvey Sid Fisher

West Hollywood, CA.(Hollywood Today) 9/8/12—I ran out into the Los Angeles night to be with FASHION’S NIGHT OUT. A celebration of culture and couture, accessories and excesseries, blings and things. Headquartered at the Beverly Center, and spreading  down to Loehmann’s on La Cienega Blvd, and up to  Robertson and Melrose and many points in between. It is a fashion feeding frenzy. It is the life and breath of the few who are the style-needy, the attention-hungry, the sex-searcher,  the love-me-for-what-I-am-wearing-because-I-don’t- have-the-confidence-to-be-me.

But for the many majority, FASHION’S NIGHT OUT is  a not-to-be-missed fun event. It all dresses down to the pleasure of feeling good and that can’t be bad. Or could it? Nothing wrong with fashion. It’s like a nuclear weapon. Depends on how and what it’s not used for. Who would ever associate fashion as dangerous?

Fashion Warning:

A study at the University of Haifa shows that the more time young girls spend watching fashion content online and on TV the more they suffer conditions of eating disorders,   negative physical self-image, negative approach to eating and more of an urge to be on an exaggerated   weight-loss diet.   The study also reveals that the risk of developing eating disorders in adolescent girls is lessened when there is more parental supervision over viewing habits. An ounce of mom or pop is worth a ton of psychiatry.

Fashion can be crucial in nature. There is a bird called the Woodcock whose feathers are perfectly colored to match the fallen leaves that surround their feeding ground. It is their camouflage to make them invisible to predators such as the Cooper Hawk. One small white feather in the wrong place could be a dead giveaway.

Luckily there are no recorded Cooper Hawk attacks on the fashionable denizens of Los Angeles. Protected feeding grounds perhaps? It takes an army of support to make FASHION’S NIGHT OUT happen. All the acting classes in L.A. must have been emptied  of its students in order to supply the friendly servers who pass through the crowds of  blissful shoppers with trays of food and drinks.  You can go up a size real quick.

One member of the food supply brigade is CINDY who owns The ALADDIN’S COFFEE SHOP in downtown L.A. and catered for Loehmann’s on La Cienega. She makes some tasty breaded mushrooms and whatever that other delicious vegetable was. Most all the stores at the Beverly Center have their own dj’s with their own nonsensical ear-blasting beat machine noise crashing together out in the corridors in hellish cacophony. Strange how all that din spin does not seem to deter the adding crowd’s noble strife, movement or purpose.

FASHION’S NIGHT OUT is a good time to cruise the  participant venues throughout the town for deals, discounts and dazzle.  If money is no problem, you can find  a pair of sunglasses for $700 and shoes for $400. Then there were the free samples and services at many locations. You could get your hair fluffed up, your nails buffed up and your makeup upped up. There was music, food, drink, and lots of happy people.

They call it FASHION’S NIGHT OUT. I call it a party. …and the parking at the Beverly Center was free.

Harvey Sid Fisher

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