A Current Affair is happy to partner with leading gift and accessories tradeshow COEUR to present a curated selection of vintage for LA Market- happening March 12-14, 2012. Wholesale buyers will choose from a selection of vintage accessories, jewelry, apparel, and eyewear. Please visit coeurshow.com for more information and buyer registration.

Thanks to all of our customers who came out for A Current Affair’s holiday show with Rose Apodaca. Stay tuned for information on our Spring show which will be held in April! For information on exhibiting our our show please email info@itsacurrentaffair.com

Marion Hodges can be heard every other Saturday night/Sunday morning from 3AM to 6AM on 89.9 KCRW, and kcrw.com. Marion has been DJ-ing since the summer of 2007. She co-founded the DJ team Squaregirls, and was a co-creator of the still active indiepop/northern soul dance party, Hungry Beat! The loungier sister of Hungry Beat!, Sophisticated Boom Boom, takes place on the first Saturday of every month at Tony’s Saloon, Downtown Los Angeles. She frequently spins at Wurstkuche (both locations), Grand Star Jazz Club in Chinatown, and various other concert venues around town. At least eighty-five percent of her wardrobe is comprised of vintage items.

Curator, journalist and author Rose Apodaca will host the December edition of A Current Affair and sign copies of her latest book, Fred Hayman—The Extraordinary Difference: The Story of Rodeo Drive, Hollywood Glamour and the Showman Who Sold It All. She will also hand select 10 vintage party looks from throughout the show which will be on exhibit and available for purchase.

Rose Apodaca is the former West Coast bureau chief of Women’s Wear Daily and contributor to W, a founding editor of The Los Angeles Times “Image” section, and a continuing contributor to Harper’s Bazaar, style.com, Paper and other publications. She curated the fashion category of the 2010 California Design Biennial, and is active in museum outreach with the city’s fashion industry. Her first book, Style A to Zoe: The Art of Fashion, Beauty, & Everything Glamour, conceived and written for celebrity stylist Rachel Zoe, was a New York Times bestseller and now appears in several languages. On tap next is a beauty book with neo-burlesque icon Dita Von Teese for Harper Collins. Ms. Apodaca lives in Los Angeles’ Silver Lake neighborhood with her husband and daughter, where they operate their modern global design lab A+R.

For more on Rose Apodaca’s book, please visit Fred Hayman.

Artist Rafa Esparza will exhibit his Gallos Giros Putos Gallones at the December edition of A Current Affair. For the piece, Esparza sculpts roosters using old Nike Cortez sneakers. The birds will be contained to a central exhibit and “perched” throughout the show. This marks the second collaboration between a local artist and A Current Affair, following September’s exhibition of Edith Abeyta’s camp site. A Current Affair is interested in showcasing the works of artists who use found fashion items as a medium.

Rafa Esparza’s Gallo Giro, a rooster sculpted from a Nike sneaker

Artist’s Bio: Rafa Esparza is an artist working and living out of Los Angeles. His works, diverse in their medium are phenomenological reflections of the body, time and space as they relate to colonized entities. Rafa, attuned to Xikano culture as a conflation of an investment by diverse interests to reclaim a sense of identity amongst a population, engages himself in that process by re-performing pre-Columbian sculpture, creating site specific installations and referencing cultural icons via drawings and paintings; however, not as a means to identify with a subject but rather to help attain an understanding of time and space and what survives it.

Rafa recently earned his B.A. in Art from the University of California Los Angeles. He has performed, collaborated and exhibited with other artists in spaces such as, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions,  REDCAT, Statler Waldorf Gallery, Echo Curio, Hold Up Art, UCLA’s New Wight Gallery, and Human Resources.

Edith Abeyta’s “Camp Site” installation at the September 2011 edition of A Current Affair

Tickets are now available for our December holiday edition of A Current Affair.  Visit Eventbrite to purchase advance tickets now!

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Following in the success of A Current Affair’s first anniversary fall show, a Holiday show happens December 3+4, 2011.  Bringing together over 30 top vintage retailers and private dealers, the holiday show will feature a range of vintage apparel, accessories, jewelry and ephemera to fit a range of tastes and budgets.  An exhibit of the 10 best party dresses from the show will be on display and available for purchase.  Sign up for our mailing list above for updates and special offers.

A Current Affair will pop up at new gift and accessories show Coeur for LA Market.  Open exclusively to wholesale buyers, Coeur will present over 60 top accessories and gift brands in the penthouse of the historic Cooper Building in Downtown LA’s fashion district.  The show takes place October 17, 18, and 19.  The producers of Coeur have asked A Current Affair to present a selection of vintage accessories that will be shopped by buyers from across the globe, allowing them the unique opportunity to purchase vintage items for their contemporary boutiques. A Current Affair will feature costume jewelry from NEW/FOUND, clutches by Classic Clutches, recycled cashmere ponchos by Blankety Blank Blank, sunglasses by Allyn Scura, and reworked vintage jewelry by Lux Revival.  Most items will be available cash and carry, with some items available for order.

Spring market will be the premiere edition of Coeur, produced by Lisa Elliot-Rosas and Henri Myers of eM productions.  A Current Affair pops up three times a year with over 25 vintage retailers and private dealers.  The holiday show happens December 3+4.

more at www.coeurshow.com

Designer of wren Melissa Coker will debut a collection of eco-friendly bags made in collaboration with designer Clare Vivier at A Current Affair.  The wren X Vivier bags are made using remnants from wren’s Fall 2012 leopard fabric and Vivier’s vegetable tanned leather, and are lined with cotton canvas.  Their appearance at A Current Affair marks the first time the bags will be available outside of the designers’ own web stores.

Melissa Coker will act as hostess of the fall edition of A Current Affair September 24+25 2011.  Coker will pull together 10 vintage looks from the over 25 participating vendors that will be on exhibit and available for purchase.  She will also exhibit a selection of vintage pieces from the wren inspiration archives.

Artist Edith Abeyta will create a site specific installation for A Current Affair: Pop Up Vintage Marketplace September 24+25.  Using found clothing, she will re-purpose them as sculptural tents and trees.  The producers of A Current Affair invited Abeyta to exhibit her work alongside 25 premiere vintage dealers and retailers who will be on hand to exhibit and sell their own found treasures.  This exhibit will mark the first collaborative effort between A Current Affair and a local artist.

A Current Affair happens September 24 6pm-10pm and September 25 11am-5pm.  Hosted by Melissa Coker, designer of WREN, the show brings together the best in vintage clothing, jewelry, and accessories.  There will be an open bar sponsored by PAMA, Izze and Smartwater.  Admission is $10

More on Edith Abeyta:

Edith Abeyta is an installation artist residing in Los Angeles, California.  Using re-purposed, salvaged and scavenged materials and incorporating interactive and participatory elements her installations focus and explore issues of collectivity, opportunity, and labor.  Embracing notions of ephemerality and multiplicity she offers alternatives to static, single voiced art production.

Abeyta received a fellowship from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research in 2007.  She has done residencies at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands and the University of Burapha, Thailand.  Her work has been exhibited at the Lakenhal Museum in Lieden, the Burapha University Gallery in Thailand, the Long Beach Museum of Art, the Craft and Folk Art Museum as well as numerous local, national and international galleries