With the Purple and Gold back in the NBA Finals, Lakers car flags have returned to L.A. in force. Clifford Isaac, owner of Hollywood-based gotparty.com, says his novelties company has been selling out of the $10 flags almost immediately after it gets a shipment.
“This is greater demand than the Shaq era,” said Isaac, who said that like the Shaquille O’Neal-led teams of 2000-2002, this Lakers bunch will win it all.
Isaac not only supplies the flags but has created some demand. He has three flags on his car.
Shopping Sprees
Aly Scott, founder of L.A.-based StyleChic, sees plenty of people willing to splurge. After all, she charges $250 an hour just to guide customers on lavish shopping sprees that include chauffeured transportation and, of course, champagne. Still, there have been requests that stand above the rest.
Last summer, a Saudi Arabian princess who was in the L.A. area on vacation wanted a unique weekender hand bag before returning home. The hotel she was staying at contacted Scott to see if she could secure the $1,500 Balenciaga bag. There were two problems: The princess was leaving the next day and the bag was only available in Las Vegas.
“We had to find car service and the driver drove with the bag from Las Vegas and met her at LAX,” said Scott.
Good Burger/Bad Burger
O! burger, an organic fast-food burger eatery, opened May 31 in West Hollywood. For $7.99, a customer can sink his teeth into a burger that includes pesticide-free and chemical-free ingredients. And the beef comes from grass-fed cows.
But isn’t the idea of an organic burger about as un-American as driving a subcompact in Texas?
Not so, opined O! co-founder Martha Chang, who claimed that burgers don’t have to be greasy to be good.
“Our burgers are delicious, and if it is the way nature intended it, it is good for you,” she said.
Law and the City
Before “Sex and the City” hit Los Angeles theatres, Linda Kornfeld knew the movie about four New York City women would be the perfect centerpiece for a women’s networking event. So last week, Kornfeld, managing partner of Dickstein Shapiro LLP, brought together a group of more than 100 businesswomen to nosh on Brazilian food and see a private screening of the film in Century City.
But Kornfeld had one tiny confession to make: She couldn’t resist the urge to see Carrie and friends sipping cosmopolitans on the big screen.
“I am a very big Sex and the City fan, so I saw it the day it opened,” Kornfeld said.
Staff reporter Alexa Hyland contributed to this column. Daniel Miller can be reached at [email protected].
