Melrose / Almont / Robertson

Furniture/Jewellery/Fashion Park on Melrose Ave west of N La Cienega and go get spendy, Wendy. Purses out at 8501 Melrose where Alice + Olivia / 310 775 8376 / aliceandolivia.com / is your party dress depot, and gal next door L’Agent by Agent Provacateur at #8503 / 310 734 7305 / lagentbyap.com / your frilly knix nook. Swish ahead to the massive West Coast flagship of urban outfitter

Rag & Bone at #8533 / 424 245 4816 / rag-bone.com / then prance across for Rose Tarlow at #8540 / 323 651 2202 / rosetarlow.com / textile queen. Sleb-spotting organic eatery

Urth is at #8565 (see Lunch), and Élu is at #8575 / 310 659 9320 / elubycn.com / purveyor of edgy silhouettes, shoes n’ bags. Nip into cult furniture store-with-a-view Restoration

Hardware at #8564 (see Adv. Shopping) if neoclassical home repro is your bag, then just beyond is the huge Pacific Design

Center (see Adv. Shop.) at #8687 if your house is in need of a makeover. Continue west past San Vicente to find classic-cool

John Varvatos (m) at #8800 / 310 859 2971 / johnvarvatos. com / on the left cnr of N Robertson, with haute label daddy

Maxfield at #8825 / 310 274 8800 / maxfieldla.com / on the right. T-shirt king James Perse (m/w) is at #8914 / 310 276 7277 / jamesperse.com / and down at #9001, Alexandra von

Furstenburg / 310 777 0253 / has colourful acrylic furny. Detour north onto N Almont Dr for mod art gallery M+B at #612 / 310 550 0050 / mbart.com / and #614 homegal Jenni

Kayne’s / 310 860 0123 / jennikayne.com / LA-gance. Find chunky period interiors at #620 Waldo’s Designs / 310 278 1803 / waldosdesigns.com, and enchanting Scandinavian antiques at #646 Lief / 310 492 0033 / liefalmont.com / then zip back and left into Melrose, and chug an invigorating mezcal margarita at #8905 Gracias Madre (see Rest/Relaxed). Watch that curb! Carry on now to #8908 Salon Benjamin (see Spa) with bewitch-ing apothecary Selects, then right on N Robertson for

H. Lorenzo at #474 / 310 652 0064 / where high design meets eco-chic. Trot a few blocks to Retrospecs & Co. at #363 / 310 657 4217 / retrospecs.com / with trig 50s aviators, then nip left into Rosewood for Platt antique jewellers / 310 550 0728 / and fab The Kit Vintage pre-loved frockagerie / 310 271 6615 / both at #8763. Continue for a soo LA strip, with celebu-shops

Kitson Men at #146 and Kitson Studio at #142 / 310 360 0051. Quintessential pap-spot The Ivy is at #133 (see Lunch), so you’d better get your shades on, stat...