I know where I'll be at 3 p.m. Sunday -- glued to my TV, watching stars arrive for the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

It's always a treat to see the latest gowns and get-ups celebrities wear for their flash-bulb-popping strolls. If you're not near a television -- or even if you are -- check in here at All the Rage, where Fashion Critic Booth Moore and stylist Melissa Magsaysay will offer their commentary as the stars arrive. I'll be doing that too.... TV in front of me, laptop to the right.

One thing we'll be looking for is stars wearing lia sophia jewelry. It's a line based in the Midwest that tries to get celebrities to wear its finer jewelry in order to promote its home-based direct sales costume jewelry business. You can find out more about lia sophia here.

Happy viewing!

-- Susan Denley

Photo: Kelly Rowland at the lia sophia La Belle Rose Preview at New York Fashion Week September 2010. She is wearing lia sophia Wrapped II linear earrings with black diamond, clear and jet crystals in matte gold. Credit: Chris Herder Photography

While I was in Paris to see the men's fall and winter 2011-2012 runway collections, I popped into the Capsule show (a showcase for fashion brands that's organized in a trade-show-booth format ) to get an early look at the collections brands would be showing during the upcoming New York Fashion Week in mid-February.

That's where I discovered that for fall, the Florsheim by Duckie Brown men's footwear line would be expanding its footwear offerings to include two styles of women's shoes.

At launch, the women's collection will include a brogue (set to retail around $415) and a saddle shoe ($300), with each style available in about a half-dozen colors. Among the most eye-catching on display were the metallic brogues (pewter or gold) and a black saddle shoe with a perforated lace design.

The collaboration between the Florsheim footwear brand and Duckie Brown designers Daniel Silver and Steven Cox also plans to add a line of brightly colored socks to the product mix for fall and winter 2011.

-- Adam Tschorn, reporting from Paris

Photos: For fall and winter 2011, the men's footwear collaboration between Florsheim and Duckie Brown will expand into women's with saddle shoes (above left, $300) and brogues (above right, $415). Credit: Adam Tschorn / Los Angeles Times.

When the Paris menswear shows come around every year it's tempting to ditch the real world, hop on a plane, excitedly touch down at Charles de Gaulle and sneak in a couple Laduree macaroons before the Louis Vuitton show. It's a fine idea to flirt with and ah... a girl can dream, but most of us can't catch a jet to Paris on a whim. Lucky for fashion lovers on our side of the world, we don't have to. Adam Tschorn gives us the best that Paris Fashion Week has to offer, bringing readers the drama, glitz and glamour happening on and off the runways. This week he gives readers an exclusive front-row seat, with the best highlights from the Paris shows. Don't miss looks from your favorite designers with our photo galleries showcasing everyone from Thom Browne to Mugler.

-- Jenn Harris

Photo, top: A model presents a creation by John Galliano as part of the men's fall-winter 2011/2012 collection shown during Paris Fashion Week. Credit: Jonas Gustavsson and Peter Stigter.

Photo, bottom: A look from the Thom Browne runway collection shown during Paris Fashion Week. Credit: Jonas Gustavsoon and Peter Stigter.

I remember back in the day when the Avon Lady would call on my mother. They'd have a cup of coffee, chat and pore through the catalog. Usually, Mrs. Woods (aka Avon Lady) would give the eager 8-year-old me a few lipstick and fragrance samples ... stoking the next generation of customers.

Fast-foward: My friend Patti is an account manager by day and a Mary Kay rep by night (and weekends). We are both busy, busy, busy -- no time for leisurely coffee at home in the middle of the afternoon -- so most of our transactions usually take place on the Web. She sends me catalogs over the Internet, where I can not only select products, pay and schedule their delivery, but also try on virtual looks. If I run out of lip gloss or eyeliner, I shoot her an e-mail, and voila, I have the product in hand in no time.

Welcome to the new face of direct sales: Home-based beauty companies are thriving as they rely more on new technologies (the Internet, Twitter, iPhone aps) to stay young, accessible and relevant. Our Melissa Magsaysay took a look at this new world and found it intriguing.

-- Susan Denley 

Photo: Independent director Arlene Lizarraga, left, sprays Julia Castaneda with a Votre Vu product during a home party in Whittier in October 2010. The line, created in France, sells big with women who want to unlock "the secret to French skin care secrets." Credit: Christina House / For The Times

Even before heading off to the men's fall and winter 2011-12 runway shows in Milan and Paris earlier this month, I'd started gathering string on the surging popularity of all things country. And it wasn't just "True Grit" at the box office and Taylor Swift on the album charts either; rural America was resonating on the runways of New York Fashion Week and ringing the registers at a Beverly Hills auction house.

How else can you explain the fact that Billy Reid -- the fashion designer whose rough-hewn meets refined / slightly bent Southern gent aesthetic won him both GQ magazine's "Best New Menswear Designer in America" competition and the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund award in the same calendar year -- is based not in New York City or Los Angeles but Florence, Ala.?

From Milan I spoke with Reid -- who was in the process of getting ready for New York Fashion Week -- if he'd noticed it. "I certainly do," he said. "It's something that's always just been part of who I am and what I do, and I do have to say it's nice to see other people coming around," he said with a self-deprecating chuckle.

What he couldn't tell me -- for certain -- was if the result was anything quantifiable at the register. "We've had an uptick in our business, yes," Reid said. "But honestly, it's hard to say whether it's because of that or because of winning those two awards."

But, by the time I was boots on the ground back in Los Angeles, the gathered string had started to feel like the  world's largest ball of twine; even the runways of Europe reflected the trappings of country or western references (but apparently not "country-and-western"; I'm told using that term -- especially when referring to the music genre -- is a serious faux pas) and "True Grit" had corralled 10 Academy Award nominations.

So I saddled up, dug in my spurs, and tried a little roundup of my own. You can read the story -- which will appear in the Jan. 30 Image section -- here. 

If you can pull yourself away from FarmVille, that is.

 -- Adam Tschorn

Photo: The finale of the DSquared2 men's fall and winter 2011 runway show during Milan Fashion Week. The label is one of many that have recently turned to the trappings of rural America for inspiration. Credit: Jonas Gustavsson & Peter Stigter / For The Times.

Kate Somerville, the facialist-to-the-stars turned skin-care tycoon, hosted members of the press at her Melrose Place skin-care clinic Thursday to introduce six new products that she said further her mission of creating formulations "with a high strength of active ingredients coupled with elements that are calming."

The brand debuted a new version of its enormously successful facial exfoliator, ExfoliKate (the No. 1 selling exfoliator at Sephora) for acne-prone skin, called ExfoliKate Acne ($65).

Packing a much softer scrubbing bead (jojoba), an impurity-drawing clay base and a medicinal dose of pure tea tree oil, the new formulation, which recently launched, "won't take the top of a pimple off — it will clarify the skin without any danger of scarring," said Somerville, who started out in skin care 20 years ago working in a doctor's office treating pre- and post-operative skin.

Another standout product — set for a March release — is Clinic-to-Go ($48), a proprietary disposable facial pad with a slot for your fingers that comes preloaded with the product on the pad. Boasting 20% lactic acid (a great sensitive skin-friendly exfoliator) and a huge dose of skin-brightening vitamin C, "This really mimics the lactic acid peel we do here in the clinic," said Somerville.

The skin guru also introduced a bigger box of her popular self-tanning towelettes, Somerville 360 ($64) — a product she created in response to clients, including Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton, who would come into the clinic with self-tanners on that had faded into dirty-looking stains (out in March). 

CytoCell eye cream ($75), a product based on Somerville's Cytocell cream that will be released in April, claims to diffuse light and reduce puffiness through the use of stem cell technology; while KateCeuticals Multi-Active Repair ($195), also out in April, is "the most powerful anti-wrinkle cream I've ever used," said Somerville, noting with a wink that she wanted to call it "The Big Heavy."

Complexion Correction ($48 to $80) — a three-product system out in June — claims to reduce brown spots and redness, though "I have to say you're going to look worse before you look better with these products," said Somerville. "The cells will turn over and discoloration will darken, then it will lighten dramatically.... It will really change your complexion."

Kate Somerville products are available at all Sephora and Neiman Marcus stores and at the Kate Somerville clinic in L.A.

--Emili Vesilind

Photos, from top: Multi-Active Repair cream and CytoCell eye cream from Kate Somerville. Credit: Kate Somerville.

Already, the city of West Hollywood has banned the sale of dogs and cats, as well as the declawing of cuddly felines. Now the city inside the city of L.A. is home to a new campaign that would ban the sale of fur.

"West Hollywood is so progressive, we knew this was a great city to take the reins and make this a cruelty-free zone in terms of banning fur," said Shannon Keith, campaign organizer for  Fur Free West Hollywood.  

The campaign kicks off at noon Jan. 29 with a rally at Matthew Shepard Human Rights Triangle Park. West Hollywood City Council candidate John D'Amico will issue the event's rallying cry. D'Amico, who has embraced the fur ban as part of his campaign, is running for one of three open seats on the West Hollywood City Council in a March 8 election.

"Critical thinking and honest-to-goodness good ideas make the world a better place," D'Amico said. "As far as my participation and being associated with Fur Free West Hollywood, I am an animal welfare advocate. Fur Free West Hollywood is about thinking of creative and exciting new ways to be in the world -- to really expand how it is we exist and the kinds of people we can be when we think carefully about the world we’re living in."

Campaign organizers are currently compiling a list of stores that sell fur within its boundaries. A phone call to WeHo fur seller Maxfield was not returned in time for this post.

-- Susan Carpenter

Photo: Fur Free West Hollywood

A few notable happenings for a more stylish weekend:

SALES

L.A. Eyeworks  Annual Sunglass Sale Through Sunday: Get 30% to 70% off sunglasses from one of L.A.'s most distinctive eyewear companies. And score 20% off prescription and custom sun lenses on all sale frames. Beverly Boulevard location only.

7386 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles. (323) 931-7795. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday; 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday

The Mini Social Warehouse Sale Saturday: Find cute designer clothing, toys and accessories for babies and kids at this regularly occurring warehouse sale from luxury children's website The Mini Social. Brands include LAMADE, Tea Collection, Ben Sherman and Joah Love.

120 E. Santa Anita Ave., Burbank. 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.

EVENT

Case Study Unholy Matrimony installation and party Saturday: Party with the arty set and view a new original installation at avant-garde boutique Case Study Unholy Matrimony.

138 to 140 S. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles. (323) 932-0899. 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

--Emili Vesilind

Photo: "Montrose" frames from L.A. Eyeworks. Credit: L.A. Eyeworks.

-- When our Melissa Magsaysay visited Taraji P. Henson's closet last summer, the actress was down to earth, warm and passionate about her clothes. But she's also passionate about animals and willing to bare all for the cause. She is featured in the latest PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) ad, dressed in nothing but the vine tattoo around her waist. "Be comfortable in your own skin," the ad reads, "and let animals keeps theirs." [New York Daily News]

-- Two princesses-in-waiting are having to contend with the large shadows of their princes' fashion icon mothers. For Kate Middleton, it's Britain's Princess Diana. For Charlene Wittstock, Monaco's Princess Grace. Women's Wear Daily has a fun comparison of the two and predictions about how they might (or might not) influence fashion. Kate "who hasn’t had a public misstep since she began dating Prince William, risks treading safe fashion ground for the rest of her life, which would result in a collective yawn in Britain and abroad," WWD concludes. Charlene, who has been taken under Armani's wing and is being courted by Dior, "can tend to look stiff and slightly uncomfortable in designer duds. She needs to relax and smile more. She will be a princess, after all." [WWD]

-- If you can't get enough of all this royal wedding madness -- like me! --Lifetime is preparing a movie about Kate and Prince William's courtship and wedding. [EOnline] [People]

-- In the world of rock royalty, Tali Lennox, daughter of music legend Annie Lennox and Israeli film producer Uri Fruchtmann, stars in cult Swedish label Acne's newest lookbook shoot. [Telegraph]

-- Paris Couture Fashion Week just wrapped up, with some "awe-inspiring" collections. [FabSugar]

-- Norma Kamali was a keynote speaker at Fashion Group International’s Rising Star Awards Thursday. Among the designers taking home honors were Loris Diran for men's apparel; Fabiola Arias and Bradley Scott, in a tie for women's apparel; Jennifer Fleiss and Jennifer Hyman of Rent the Runway for retail; Marc Marmel for accessories and Betty Lou Moscot for fine jewelry. [WWD]  

--The Obama factor is working for niche jewelry designer Kara Ross, who is getting lots of attention since the first lady wore pieces she designed at the White House Christmas tree ceremony and at the State of the Union address. [WWD] (subscription required)

-- Susan Denley

Photo: Actress Taraji P. Henson, in her closet. Photo: Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times

Celebrity stylists are still all the rage. Everyone either has a stylist or wants to be one (a place called the School of Style just opened in L.A and N.Y. for wannabe stylists to learn some tricks of the trade). And labels like Theory have put stylists front and center, leveraging the brand with notable stylist names for ad campaigns and look books.

The reach and influence of celebrity stylists show no signs of stopping. Case in point: Gilt Groupe’s new feature called Celebrity Style Series, which starts Friday at 9 a.m. PST. The website has tapped several celeb stylists to conceptualize their own theme for a sale and style on 7-9 looks from various vendors to sell online for 36 hours (the duration all Gilt sales generally last).

The first stylist up is Lee Harris, best known for dressing Drew Barrymore in glam, but more often offbeat ensembles.  He also shares his styling tips, wardrobe essentials and what makes a successful red carpet moment, as seen in the video above.

A new celebrity stylist will appear with a sale the last Friday of each month. So watch for your favorite image maker to appear on screen soon -– with a slew of clothes to sell at sample sale prices, natch.

-- Melissa Magsaysay

Video: Lee Harris: Celebrity Stylist | GILT.COM.

Tired of sacrificing your regular beauty routine when traveling — or having to check a bag on short trips — because your favorite products aren't packaged in containers that are 3 ounces or less?

Enter 3Floz.com, an online store that carries luxury beauty and grooming products exclusively in travel-friendly sizes.

Founded by Kate Duff and Alexi Mintz, two former beauty executives who met while working at Archipelago Botanicals, the site carries over 50 luxe brands — including DDF, Malin + Goetz, Oscar Blandi, Weleda, Jack Black, Phyto and Molton Brown. 

But its goodies aren't just for those racking up a gazillion miles on Delta. The store's tagline — "For those who travel, those who are curious and those who can't commit" — says it all. We do our fair share of traveling, but the smaller (and cheaper) sizes on the site mean we don't have to sink as much moola into test-driving new products.

Nab a two-ounce bottle of Blow's texturizing mist for hair for $8 or a two-ounce cucumber and grapefruit body wash from Tocca for a mere $7. Even if neither ends up being your cup of tea, the investment is minimal.

Best of all, 3Floz.com ships internationally — including directly to hotels — and if you submit your itinerary showing travel within 72 hours, the site upgrades you to overnight shipping for the cost of ground.

Never be without your swanky shampoo again.

-- Emili Vesilind

Photo: A custom-designed volumizing hair kit from 3Floz.com's co-founder, Kate Duff. Credit: 3Floz.com.

GQ magazine just announced the following six finalists for its annual "Best New Menswear Designers in America" competition:

Warriors of Radness (designer Rick Klotz)
Patrik Ervell
Riviera Club (designers Joe Sadler, Derek Buse and Greg Ullery)
Gant by Michael Bastian
Miller’s Oath (designer Kirk Miller)
T by Alexander Wang

Two of the finalists are based right here in Southern California (Warriors of Radness is headquartered in Los Angeles, and Riviera Club's home base is Santa Monica) with the rest hailing from New York City. 

All six finalists will be featured in the March issue of the men's magazine, and selections from their Fall 2011 collections will be showcased at a New York City event on Feb. 10 (which happens to be the opening night of New York Fashion Week).

Although one winner will take home a $50,000 cash prize (and bragging rights), all six will have the opportunity to contribute looks to a limited-edition Dockers capsule collection that will be exclusive to Bloomingdale's for a month this fall and featured in GQ's September issue. This is a significant change from past years in which just the ultimate winner collaborated on a capsule collection -- with the Levi's brand (the parent company of both brands is San Francisco-based Levi Strauss & Co.)

Now in its fourth year, past winners include Billy Reid (2010), Robert Geller (2009) and Engineered Garments designer Daiki Suzuki (2008).

-- Adam Tschorn

Photos: Looks from the runway collections of designers who have won the GQ competition in past years, including Robert Geller in 2009 (at left, Credit: ©Dan and Corina Lecca) and Billy Reid in 2010 (at right, Credit: Jonas Gustavsson & Peter Stigter / For The Times).  This year, two of the six finalists hail from Southern California.