City Takes Flak For Paradise Cove Fashion Reveal, Will Stop Huge Film Permits
Written by 991KBU on June 7, 2019
City officials say they were misled when they issued a film permit to what turned out to be a fashion show … hosted last night by the fashion house Yves St Laurent on the beach at Paradise Cove.
Many hundreds of people were brought in by limousine … the rocks were lit up … and a fashion runway was constructed right along the tide line at Paradise Cove.
The incoming high tide got a lot of it wet … as dozens of work crews scrambled to disassemble the stage last night.
A wall of plastic sandbags had been erected to protect the set … but once city officials found out about that … they ordered the plastic bags to be removed and the san poured out.
“We were deceived .. taken advantage of …” said city manager Reva Feldman late last night.
Feldman sent in L A County sheriff’s deputies last night at 9:30 to shut the after party down.
Yves St Laurent took out a City of Malibu film permit for what actually was their 2020 Spring Fashion unveilings … telecast around the world.
The attendees received a a leopard-print invitation and a London newspaper described an army of models with a Mick Jagger swagger paraded up the wave-licked runway.
“Filmy shirts unbuttoned to the navel fluttered in the breeze, a trenchcoat with a certain swish was paired with cutoff denim shorts, while house trademark suiting came in white; a contrast that looked particularly on pointe against the moody, Whistler-like evening sky.”
Keanu reeves was there.
Malibu residents …. not happy.
Feldman scrambled additional city film office monitors to the party.
Then at 9:30 said she was sending in deputies to shut the event down.
The city manager tells KBUU News that she has already instructed the contractor who handles filming permits in Malibu to stop issuing permits for large shoots … until the city can examine what went wrong here.
“I would never have let it go through if I had known” … Feldman told KBUU News last night.
