From shopping for a new wardrobe purchase to accessorizing a preexisting old favorite, the fashionistas at K&L Closet can teach you about what’s in style and about savvy shopping techniques. Follow the two creators of K&L Closet — Kimora Kuspa and Lea Fischer — through Pacific Beach’s shopping district as they share efficient and effective shopping techniques that will save you time and money, allowing you to enjoy all Pacific Beach has to offer. Shopping Research 102 Kuspa and Fischer suggest pre-shopping on the Internet to spend less time in line at the stores. Kuspa and Fischer are a niece-and-aunt fashion-obsessed shopping duo who’ve developed a website to share their fabulous fashion finds they highlight on www.kandlcloset.com. The K&L Closet blog features youthful and contemporary fashion brands and showcases the best celebrity looks worn by their favorites they call “K&L Style Stars,” including Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale and Lauren Conrad. K&L Style Stars are fashion icons they identify with in terms of fashion and morals. In the past, Kuspa learned more than just fashion tips while shopping with her aunt. For them, shopping was a form of retail therapy, allowing them to spend time chatting about more than just looking good — but also feeling good. Working together, their brainchild K&L Closet was born, and currently provides the platform to inspire other young women to stay classy and dress sassy. Kuspa and Fischer say checking out your favorite celebrity’s style online at www.kandlcloset.com is a great way to start shopping style ideas for yourself. Shopping Economics 103 Garnet Avenue is not only a fun place to be and be seen, the endless competitive, trendy dress shops it offers makes for the complete cheap-and-chic shopping experience! The affordable prices on an assortment of local California style allows you to save your California cash. Shopping Gloss, located on Garnet Avenue, is a must cheap–and-chic one-stop shop. Gloss carries cute independent designs unique to Southern California. Here, the girls love dress shopping and accessorizing all in one place. The contemporary stylish interior of the boutique creates a cool atmosphere to enhance your shopping experience. Don’t let the cool high-class facade fool you. Gloss offers designer looks at affordable prices. Shopping Time Management 104 What to do with all that money you saved? Looking good and saving money works up an appetite! Yogurt Land, 855 Garnet Ave., provides the perfect rest stop for shoppers to rejuvenate and refuel with a tasty treat. For your next shopping trip be sure to pre-shop at www.kandlcloset.com, and you, too, can enjoy looking good and feeling good! — Holly Lauren Beedle is an established designer who has designed for luxury brands in New York City and California since her graduation from Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia. She can be contacted by e-mail at [email protected].
