L.A. Fashion Week is at odds, as we know, and no one really knows what to make of it – but on the calender – as far as trade shows, buyers, and sales of fall collections by designers to retail, it is this coming week, the third week of March. L.A. dress designer Sue Wong will show her fall 2010 collection in her studio in Koreatown on Tuesday night March 16th, Missoni will have an event with Angela Missoni in their new Beverly Hills store on Tuesday afternoon, and other events are coming together at Box Eight, etc. We’ve also heard Kevan Hall is having a fashion show for fall 2010 on Thursday March 25th. And Bravo’s “Launch My Line” first runner up Thai Nguyen will have his first collection presented in L.A. around the last week of March. But today, we received an interesting invitation for “A Parisian Afternoon” on March 24th. It’s a showing of jewelry by Angela Tassoni Newley, who is the daughter in law of Joan Collins (married to her son Sacha, who is painter) – and Joan Collins herself is hosting it at Lloyd Klein’s store on Beverly Blvd. In fact, designer Klein and Joan are co-hosting, and it’s the fanciest email invite we’ve ever received. Angela Tassoni Newley’s jewelry is apparently made of antique brooches and is sold in some very impressive stores. We found this photo of it, and of Angela with a blogger at a Manhattan event. We just had to report that Joan Collins is hosting an LA fashion week event – it’s so Hollywood cool and kitsch, right? – Merle Ginsberg
