The Hills’ Golden Child Shops with the LA Times
So I have to admit, while I sometimes find Lauren Conrad to be impossibly boring and slightly judgmental, she’s also kinda endearing. And cute. And occasionally even funny. Like when she’s drunk and imitating the accent of a British boy that she has her eye on (speaking of which, has anyone noticed that MTV is all about talking about Lauren & Co. drinking/being hungover/etc. now that they’re all 21? Never mind that they hung out in the same clubs last season and didn’t seem to be drinking water… But I digress…).
Anyway, everyone’s favorite girl from Laguna Beach went shopping with a reporter from the LA Times, hitting the downtown fashion district (a far cry from Melrose or Third Street…) with the goal of creating a cute outfit for $100.
ONE hundred George Washingtons hardly go far these days. It doesn’t take an accountant to tell you what any clotheshorse worth her shoe collection already knows too well, especially once the shoes, as well as the jewelry and any other touches, are factored in.
But when the challenge to assemble a great outfit, head to toe and not for a penny more than $100, went out to Lauren Conrad — the ambitious blond of “The Hills,” which kicked off its third season last week, not coincidently as her new campaign for Avon appears in magazines and a signature fashion line launches on her e-commerce site — the pop culture phenom accepted.
Not that it would be a snap. Conrad might be the architect of her own made-for-MTV life on the reality-drama series, as well as its predecessor, the still heavily rotated “Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County,” which premiered a lifetime ago in 2004. But this challenge would force the 21-year-old away, far away, from the air-conditioned sanctuaries with valet parking she frequents.
“I shop just about every other day,” Conrad admits, citing Bleu on La Brea Boulevard and Madison on Melrose Avenue among her haunts. “We do so much shooting, and I never know what scenes are going to make the cut. So if you’re in the same outfit twice and it ends up in the same episode, it looks like you’re wearing the same outfit all the time.” It’s the job, in other words, not a compulsion. She swears.
Nor would this challenge be as easy as dropping into the Beverly Center’s Forever 21 or Steve Madden flagships, where Conrad scores her cheap-chic fixes before a night out at Hollywood celeb spots Les Deux or Winston’s. “I hate ruining a pair of $500 heels when I go out dancing. It’s so dark and crowded, no one even knows what you have on from the waist down.”
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