There’s more than just sweet potatoes and stuffing to be thankful for this holiday. Some of Store Adore’s favorite shopping spots have already kicked off the season with can’t miss sales on must-have merchandise.

Shrine to all things luxe, Net-A-Porter is currently offering 50% many of its fab finds. In the perfect shade of neutral nude, I’ll be strutting in these Christian Louboutin stilettos (originally $965, now $579) long into spring.

E-commerce fave Shopbop.com has thousands of great items on sale including this one shoulder dress by ADAM (originally $495, now $247.50). With an easy draped silhouette and elegant hand-gathered rusching at the shoulder, its forgiving shape makes it the perfect dress for New Year’s Eve – you won’t feel self-conscious after a few glasses of bubbly. Shopbop customers can take advantage of an extra special offer through the weekend, earning $50 off when spending more than $250, $100 off when spending more than $500, $250 off when spending more than $1000 and $500 off when spending more than $1500 (enter THANKS2U upon check-out).

Revolve Clothing has launched it’s biggest sale ever with upwards of 9,000 items available for more than 50% off. I’ll be doing my best Blair Waldorf come December in this hunter green chiffon dress by Julie Haus (originally $315, now $221).

Robertson’s Diavolina is the perfect place for stocking up on the season’s hottest clothes and accessories. This week, fashion-followers can stock up on lustworthy items at 50% off, including this Mike & Chris leather jacket (originally $828, now $414). The buttery soft crinkled leather jacket stylishly straddles the line between Downtown edgy and Uptown chic.

Once the turkey hangover wears off on Friday, run (don’t walk!!) to Arcade, LA’s newly-opened den of glamour, for 50% off fall merchandise. These elegant hand-embroidered bags by Bird (originally $920, reduced to $460, call 323-944-0018) are the perfect way to invest in spring’s key boho tribal trend.

There’s no better time to indulge in life’s little luxuries…

Elbows are furiously thrown; people are knocked to the ground by a herd of charging bodies; children can be heard crying in the distant background. No, this is not a battle scene from Apocalypse Now; it is Black Friday and for true shoppers it’s war! If you think your local department store is the place to be on this post-turkey shopping celebration, then you missed these huge Black Friday sale announcements taking place across the country. How can you thank us for this master list of shopping euphoria? Let’s just say that when we are both tugging at the same half-its-price cashmere sweater this weekend, we will be expecting you to take your claws off that sleeve.

Check out our list of Black Friday sales around the country. Many continue through next week. We’ll be adding to it regularly.

NEW YORK:

Shop

At Shop on the Lower East Side, all clothing is 40 to 75 percent off and boots, bags and jewelry are 20 percent off. Find lines like Splended, Velvet and Inhabit cashmere, plus a big selection of gifts for under $50.

I HEART

At I HEART in Nolita, find markdowns on almost everything, including Isabel Marant (save 25% on the entire line), Lover, Rachel Comey, Emma Cook and more

Plum and Pear

At sister clothing and shoe storesPlum and Pear, save 30 to 50 percent on all clothing and shoes. There’s also a big selection available on sale on the e-shop. These stores may be tiny, but the savings are huge.

BROOKLYN:

The Clay Pot

At Park Slope-based jewelry The Clay Pot, save 15 percent on any purchase over $100 (either online or in-store) through December 15th. Just bring a copy of this page or use code “15by15″ online. Find beloved and familiar lines like Becky Kelso, Alexis Bittar, and Jeanine Payer.

BOSTON AREA:

Lekker Home

At chic Scandinavian home store Lekker Home in the South End, Black Friday is Orange Friday. Save 15 to 50 percent on everything in store and 10% online using code “orange08.”

The Studio

This Boston wonderland of jewelry and accessories is slashing prices for one weekend only, and while we believe in the spirit of giving, it will be impossible to leave The Studio without a trinket for yours truly. This Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, stop by The Studio and take 10 percent off of Prairie Underground Hoodies, 20 percent off Foley and Corinna items, 30 percent off Sublet and Re:Sound NY dresses, 20 percent off Jonesy’s Jewels, and many more style steals! The Studio hasn’t forgotten all of you shoppers who are far from Beantown this season- this North Shore gem has a slew of Cyber Monday specials as well!

Lekker Home

At the South End’s chic Scandinavian home store Lekker Home, Black Friday is Orange Friday.

Queen Bee

The discounts at this Boston prep-proprietor are getting better by the day! Everything is now 50-70% off! Swing by this Newbury Street classic or shop online and receive free ground shipping when you snag Alice + Oliva, Dolce Vita, LaRok, and many more of your favorite names for a fraction of the original price.

PHILADELPHIA:

Third Street Habit

Known for the relaxed vibe, and a collection of merch perfect for a lazy Sunday in, Third Street Habit manages to thrown in a few show stopping numbers and work-appropriate pieces too. As if the blend of on-my-couch and out-on-the-town wasn’t fantastic enough, now this store’s fabulous Fall items are 40-50 percent off! Hurry in from November 26th to the 30th (closed on Thanksgiving) for a changing season charge to your wardrobe.

Topstitch

Topstitch in Old City is open ’til 10pm with a major sale on jewelry, select vintage and baby clothing. There will be complimentary beverages all day long.

Sugarcube

At Sugarcube, save 25% on everything on Thanksgiving Day until 3pm, and 25% on everything on Friday from 10am to 7pm. The offer excludes jewelry and accessories.

CHICAGO:

Strut

At Strut in Wicker Park, take 30 percent of all full-priced merchandise from 8am to 3pm. From 3pm through Sunday at 7, take 20 percent off everything, including rock n roll style boots, tees, and coats.

LOS ANGELES

Tres Jolie

Tres Jolie in Beverly Hills is offering 30 percent off everything through Saturday. Shop at the store or enter “jolie” online for your discount on beautiful jewelry and accessories you won’t find elsewhere.

WASHINGTON, DC

Dekka

From 9am to 9pm at Dekka on U Street, find great deals (up to 50 percent off) on jewelry, clothing, artwork and accessories made primarily by local designers. Te and cookies will be served in the morning, and margaritas will be on tap through the afternoon. On Sunday, the fun continues with a Sunday Triple Players event featuring three designers whose work will be on sale for 20 percent off.

ONLINE

Kep Designs

Preppy jewelry line Kep Designs is offering 20 percent off online through Monday, December 1st. Enter “Turkey2008″ at checkout and save on bangles and oversized baubles galore.

Hayden Harnett

At Hayden Harnett’s Thankful Sale, find prices reduced from 30 to 70 percent through Monday. Throughout the day, certain items will be reduced even further for just a few hours. This mini clutch is reduced to $66 from $220 and comes in a bunch of sweet colors. Plus, enter code “STOREADORE1″ at checkout for free shipping on orders over $100.

Cusp is having its largest sale of the season. Take 40 percent off of clothing, shoes, handbags, and accessories from the top contemporary designers stocked by Cusp.

Catering only to women with brands like DVF, Chloé, Catherine Malandrino and Manolo Blahnik, Cusp’s “lost in the fashion jungle” ambiance makes it very simple to spot each week’s latest and greatest. Cusp has earned, and understandably so, a rep for being a trend-setting super-boutique, and now you can save big on the best tags in the business.

The sale starts November 21st at all Cusp boutiques and online, so don’t waste any time scrambling through these racks of decadent designer duds.

Click Here to see all Cusp Locations.

Store Adore shoppers save 20 percent on everything at Heist. (Use code ADOREHEIST online, or mention Store Adore at check-out)

Lending a posh vibe to laid-back Abbot Kinney, Heist boasts everything edgy, tailored and classic from the most of-the-moment designer brands. We’d hardly need an excuse to go for Parker Blue’s Camilla Shrug (regularly $345, Store Adore price $276) but for holiday it’s a must-have: the elegant shape, medium weight and calico gray hue make it a permanent companion for brunch, lunch, and late nights through spring.

We Also Adore: This Faliero Sarti Amietta Scarf (regularly $245, Store Adore price $196) is perfect for keeping our necks warm as the mercury drops, and with the black and white ombre, it kills two fall trends with one chic look.

Click here to visit the Heist website.

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Click here to browse the Store Adore Holiday Gift Guide.

What do 1440 minutes, 37 fashion institutions, 2 dozen bands and 1 skateboarding icon add up to? Paper Magazine’s 24-hour smorgasboard of hip…a blink and you’ll miss it extravaganza of the hottest in A-list designers (Rodarte, Katy Rodriguez, Band of Outsiders), the best of LA’s boutiques (Opening Ceremony, A + R, Confederacy) and a “Chop Shop” of artists visually creating masterpieces (brought to you by Levi’s). As if that wasn’t enough, the scene is further set by festival-style line-up of live music.

Whether you drop in to shop the racks or to get your groove on to special closing band Night Horse, just make some time in your schedule this Saturday to stop by. Because something like this only comes along every 8750 hours.

Paper’s 24 Hour Department Store

8873 Sunset Boulevard

Los Angeles, CA 90069

Click here to see the schedule of bands. Photos from www.papermag.com.

Ladies Who Launch and Store Adore have done it again, bringing entrepreneurial minds together for a night of expert advice, shopping, pampering, chocolate and wine! Food for the mind and the body, this Store Adore event was just the right combination of style and substance. The party was held at beautiful, Beckley LA, a favorite shopping resource for Hollywood’s hot young things. Check out our pics from the evening.

Welcome Ladies!!

Karma sparkling wine, Vosges chocolate, and beautiful bouquets

A Beckley shopping bag

What are you waiting for?

Beckley’s stunning storefront

How much is that outfit in the window? PS..look at all the gift bags lined up!

Shopping and Karma sparkling wine…a match made in heaven

Pampering at it’s best

Christine is excited about Karma

A fashionable crowd

Guests learned a lot about starting business…and had fun in the process

Discussing business strategy with like-mined peers

Let’s take a moment and focus on the fabulous clothes!

A man in the midst of Ladies Who Launch!

Strategy in action

Chic entrepreneurs

The event had a wonderful turn out. Thank you everyone for making it such a success!

Last month, news of Confederacy’s opening sounded like a trumpet call across Los Angeles. Brought to you by some of the biggest stars of the shops, the screen and the stage including owner Ilaria Urbinati (known for scouting the hottest emerging brands for LA’s trendsetting Satine boutique), co-owner Danny Masterson (much beloved for his That ‘70s Show ‘fro and serious DJ skills), and Albert Hammond Jr. who before he teamed up with Urbinati to design a line of suits sold exclusively at the shop could be seen touring with a little-known band called The Strokes (ha!), Confederacy has been making headlines for weeks with the promise of the ultimate emporium of hip for men and women.

The LA glitterati couldn’t help but take notice. And then we waited, and waited, and waited. The store finally opened it’s doors last weekend, delivering on every promise.

Set against a decidedly vintage décor including turn of the century cameras and weathered black and white photographs are fashion-forward silhouettes from the likes of Alexander Wang, Phi, Vena Cava, Rose, Anna Sui, Zac Posen, Proenza Schouler and more. While cutting-edge blouses and frocks are showcased prominently, jeans junkies can get their fix from a small selection of denim by Current/Elliott and Earnest Sewn. A freestanding counter offers dare-you-to-find-them-elsewhere exotic perfumes and candles.

In a separate freestanding building behind the original entry room (separated by what promises to be a courtyard cafe), hangs sophisticated menswear from designers including Robert Gellar, APC and the aforementioned rock star as well as a corner devoted to must-have shoes and handbags for both sexes.

You may even find yourself wanting to walk away with one of the uniforms—button down shirts with rolled sleeves, high-waisted skirts or shorts, vests and suspenders—which is no surprise, baring in mind the fact that they were designed by Rag & Bone.

Leave it to Urbinati, widely praised for her ability to sniff out the next-big-thing months ahead of the rest, to bring her latest venture to one of the grittier neighborhoods in LA. But there’s nothing grungy about this newbie. With its exposed brick walls, chic wood fixtures and large dressing rooms made to look like wooden telephone booths (not-to-mention the top-of-the-line merchandise), the boutique brings an elegant aesthetic to the otherwise rugged neighborhood. It won’t be long before hipsters and fashion fans across Southern California will be proudly waving the flag of this Confederacy.

Confederacy

4661 Hollywood Boulevard

Los Angeles, CA 90027

323-913-3040

Tuesday, October 21st, 6pm

Ladies Who Launch and Store Adore Present: The Glam Squad - What does your image say about you?

Come to an evening of shopping, entrepreneurial stories and free consultations! Ladies Who Launch, Los Angeles is partnering with Storeadore.com (an online guide to boutique shopping around the country and online) and its founders, Meredith Barnett and Cristina Miller, to bring you an evening to explore your aesthetic messaging at the beautiful Beckley LA on Melrose. Beckley LA owner Melissa Richardson Akkaway will relay her story of how she launched her luxurious retail concept to adoring Angelinos earlier this year and three make up artists, two stylists and three branding professionals will be available to help you upgrade you look, tweak your logo or packaging and give you the feedback no one else will. Come meet stylists Barbara Horowitz and Laurie Graham, try a new look with make up artists Tara Dowburd-Luftman, Nicci Levy or Terri Apanasewicz CEO and Founder of P3 Beauty, LLC , and show your biz card or packaging to brand identity gurus Peggy Wong, Joanna Holden and Sandra Sellani for insider feedback. Or, just browse designer goodies (15% off Storeadore VIP discount), sip Karma champagne, eat Vosges Haut Chocolat and meet other innovative, entrepreneurial women.

Oh, did we mention the gift bag?

Beckley LA
8620 Melrose Av (Corner of Huntley)
6 - 9pm
Parking in neighborhood or on street

RSVP: storeadore.rsvp@gmail.com

If the turquoise-painted floor (made to look like ocean waves) and Rainbow Brite dressing room curtains (actual Missoni beach towels) don’t instantly make you smile, then the selection of unique duds and accessories at happy LA will surely liven your mood. This Palisades’ boutique—the first to pop up in the Highlands region—stocks a playful mix of established brands and up-and-comers—all selected for the optimum comfort and ease suited to beach lifestyle. Owners Dawn Baker and Lori Bzura ditched their Hollywood dreams (one was a stylist for Ellen DeGeneres, the other a production coordinator for “Sex and the City”) for a peaceful Palisades lifestyle, but their backgrounds are apparent influences on the selection that mixes menswear pieces, such as tailored jackets and vests, with sexy, lingerie-inspired silky tunics and dresses. An easy-to-navigate e-shop shows all items on models (so you can see how they’ll fit on your body) and provides an insight into the beachy-life for browsers anywhere. Understanding that nothing can turn a smile into a frown faster than sky-high prices, the boutique plans to keep prices fair. Come on, L.A., get happy!

We Adore: Every time I set out to buy that wardrobe-changing, statement-making piece, I always end up with another black cashmere sweater. And I never, ever regret it. I’ll add this one from Dear Cashmere (regularly $395, Store Adore price $316) to my list. The tie front detail distinguishes it substantially from the 34 other versions in my closet. I’ve found my new style uniform.

We Adore: Whenever I read about a beachy store like happy LA, I’m sure they’ll be nothing there for me. But the cashmere sweater above and this Young Fabulous & Broke leather jacket (it’s got a cashmere lining and removable cashmere hood, regularly $398, Store Adore price $318) prove that happy LA takes those of us who don’t get to wear flip flops year round into consideration too.

We Adore: Of course, if someone does decide to take me on a hot weather getaway, I know I can browse the shop’s “for the beach“ section, where I can load up on ocean side essentials like this Shoshanna one piece (regularly $188, Store Adore price $150) year round.

Click here to save 20 percent at happy LA.