Louis Vuitton the French designer brand has recently paid homage to the City of Angels with a cleverly directed short film by French director Jean-Claude Thibaut. The film was inspired as an interpretation of various cities by using gender through the lens of a video camera as a part of a series sponsored by Louis Vuitton.

Laurent has since collaborated with Starry Kitchen in downtown Los Angeles, showed his skills at Vertical Wine Bistro in Pasadena, California and worked for Private Clientele as a Chef Consultant, but recently LQ has landed a spot at Barney Greengrass at the top of Barney’s on Wilshire. The chef will be serving up a prix fixe dinner from July 8 to July 10. The mouth-watering dinner will cost $50 which includes self parking.

On Saturday fans enjoyed a fun-filled day of cars, music and food at Taste of Doheny located at Sea Terrace Park in Dana Point. The event included the Dana Point Beach Cruisers car show and VW Jamboree where more than 200 classic cars were on display, along with a Wine Experience, food by Smoothie Jones, while guests jammed to the smooth calypso vybes of reggae by the Red X.

The lavish house designed and built in 1926 by Pickfair architect Wallace Neff on North Roxbury Drive is officially on the market with an asking price of $18.495 million. After being built, the Beverly Hills home has had its share of celebrity owners such as Betty Grable and husband/legendary trumpeter Harry James, Diane Keaton, possibly the founder of Columbia Pictures Harry Cohn but no evidence has surfaced and that’s not all, according to the LA Times, the iconic superstar Madonna.

According to the Kardashian sisters their new location at 8420 Melrose will soon be open to the public, with the signage up on the Melrose property many can expect the grand opening to be much sooner than later. In fact, Kourtney Kardashian gave an exclusive tour of the inside of the boutique to Ken Baker of E! According to a very pregnant Kourtney the much awaited Dash store should be unveiled in a few weeks, so in the meantime all merchandise must go from the Dash Calabasas location.

Recently, great news has started for downtown LA and with this new turn of events, new developments are in store. Possibly later this year, the Embassy Hotel/Trinity Auditorium will become the Empire Hotel.

The Palihouse Holloway is now opening its doors for more than just a hotel stay. Now developer Paligroup is placing eight penthouse units for sale. So now guests will have the opportunity to purchase all two stories that range from 1,195 to 1,875 square feet of space that sits on the third floor. These luxury units feature parking from the hotel and a separate entrance and as an added bonus buyers have many options that include laundry, housekeeping and concierge.

This weekend just made the summer a lot more interesting with the announcement of the 2012 AIA/LA Restaurant Design Awards winners at the three-day celebration of modern design, Dwell on Design at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

Joie has been known for being a stylish, casual, yet sophisticated line, but has always had its home right Downtown in NYC in one store, but Joie has decided to change things up a bit with opening a boutique in LA in the exclusive Melrose Avenue, among Herve Leger, Vanessa Bruno and A.P.C. For more information on Joie, visit the site here.