Dreama Black's Noir L.A.
One of the things that inspired me to start the Dreama Black series was my passion for Los Angeles history and lore. Making my...
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Cece Caruso's Vintage Shopping Tips
BE A FREAK of nature, i.e., wear a size six or smaller. If this is not your situation, bribe a sales woman so she will put aside that...
Hitch Redux
Remaking Hitch's masterpieces has long been something of a cottage industry in Hollywood. Here is a list of some of the best, some of the...
Style File
The inimitable Dolly Parton once said, "You'd be surprised how expensive it is to look this cheap!" French novelist Gustave Flaubert said...
Power Dressing
I grew up in the seventies in Beverly Hills, just barely on the right side of the gilded tracks. My father was a doctor so we were hardly...
Strutting Their Stuff
I thought I'd learned a lot about men's fashion by living for a decade and a half with a member of the species. Men's clothes, to begin...
Le Smoking
In Paris this fall, you can't miss the posters for "Smoking Forever," an exhibition of Yves St. Laurent's tuxedos for women. They are all...
Cece's Palm Springs Top Ten
Hadley's Fruit Orchards (in Cabazon, off the I-10, 16 miles west of Palm Springs). A beloved pit stop since 1931. These people invented...
Learning from Vogue
I have been gratified to see how many people have fallen in love with Cece's vintage wardrobe. I am often asked how I come up with some...
Vintage 101: Claire McCardell
IN CHAPTER 11 of I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason, Cece visits her friend Bridget's vintage clothing shop and reads up in one of Bridget's...
Hollywood Regency
IN CHAPTER 15 of I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason, Cece accompanies the architect Burnett Fowlkes to a Hollywood Regency house he's...
Who should play Cece Caruso?
I am often asked who I think should play Cece Caruso in the movie. This is a purely academic question since there is no movie -- not yet,...
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