Writer Suzy Gershman Dies at 64

"My heart is repeatedly every time I go into the closet-size shop, I've never seen so many bags that could not live without", Suzy Gershman has written one of the hidden gems that are in your search for "Born Buy in Hong Kong. "" These grants are not copies, just to see something happen ", as the bags in fashion magazines. "

In another finding, revealed in "Born to Shop New York", wrote: "This is the kind of small boutique on Madison Avenue, you could go without knowing that the site is 'a' the ladies of the Upper East Side who love the look euro-asian-art-Boho-hippie ".

Ms. Gershman was the author of 16 "shopping" Born guidelines, published more than 26 years and compiled over hundreds of kilometers to roam around the world and, often, the meanders of the new street .

You have become the standards that have been reviewed every two years - in New York, London, Paris, Hong Kong, France and Italy. In total, over four million copies of "Born to Shop" books, first published by Bantam and later this week, have been sold.

Ms. Gershman has died of cancer last Wednesday in San Antonio for 64 years, Sarah Lahey said in the past eight years has helped Ms. Gershman researching and writing books.

Buyers guide attention to local markets, boutiques and specialty shops outside the tracks with goods from the artisans. We recommend hotels at affordable prices and offer shopping tips. Ms. Gershman between the Ten Commandments for international purchases:

¶ "Buy local groceries, gifts not only for low cost, but for the objects of local manufacture and bring home a taste of the destination, mustard, ie, France, Texas BBQ sauce ".

¶ "Do not buy products cheaper abroad, especially if it is something that can not go back."

¶ "Do not buy the mania of the moment, that is, the national flag of a country transformed into a headscarf. I mean, really ...."

"The basic idea of ??the book," Ms. Gershman once said, "is that you must read, as we were eating breakfast and I said to my shopping day."

In fact, only this type of event has inspired the series. "He lived in Beverly Hills, where he worked as editor of the West Coast style of People magazine," Ms Lahey said. "She was having lunch with friends, and decided to write a guide to shopping in Beverly Hills. It was what he did the deed."

Suzy Kalter was born April 13, 1948, in San Antonio. She was "not a guy who had a merit scholarship," said Lahey, "but when he traveled with his family would explore local markets and buy sweets -. He always uses the word" was one of three children Gloria and SS Kalter, known as Sy.

His father was a research scientist for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and the World Health Organization.

Ms. Kalter graduated from the University of Texas in 1969 with a degree in journalism, then moved to New York to work in advertising and public relations.

There he met Michael Gershman, who married in 1975. He died in 2000. Ms. Gershman survive him a son, Aaron, his brother, Steven, and a granddaughter.

The Gershmans moved to Los Angeles, where, while working for the people, Ms. Kalter (while continuing to be known) has become a regular guest on television programs. In 1986, when "Born to Shop" series began, he changed his name to Gershman.

For Ms. Gershman, much had something to share. In France, purchased by CIL Demasq case, around $ 5 per bottle. "It's a French eye makeup remover - CILS is French for eyelashes - called the product more beautiful than ever invented," said Ms. Lahey. "You are the uses and gave all his friends."

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Margot Feuer dies at 89

After Margot Feuer in 1965 moved to the hills of Malibu, she "launched a community action" by the threat of development in the surrounding Santa Monica Mountains.

The frightening suggestions include building a nuclear plant in a remote ravine and a highway through Malibu Canyon.

"I looked around I in the midst of was," she later said, "I thought, gosh, the idea of ​​a park is a wonderful idea."

Hundreds of her movement to a national park in Los Angeles would join to create, but Feuer and two other activists will be recognized as the "founding mothers" of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, in 1978 the federal approval.

Feuer, the last survivor of the trio of advocates, died June 16 of a stroke in her Los Angeles home overlooking Stone Canyon in the Santa Monica Mountains, said her son, Mark. She was 89.

"We are indebted to Margot for her lifelong environmental activism and the role she played in the founding of the nation's largest urban national park," Lorenza Fong, acting superintendent of the recreation area, in a statement to The Times said.

Feuer's sister was in activism Jill Swift, that grassroots awareness building through increases in the Santa Monica Mountains to organize, and Susan Nelson, who works closely with then-Reps. Phillip Burton (D-San Francisco) and Anthony C. Beilenson (D-Woodland Hills).

When the Sierra Club Feuer talks on country meetings, she was asked to join Swift as co-chairman of the group's Santa Monica Mountains Task Force.

Feuer Sierra Club's chief lobbyist for the park and become repeat trips to Washington to testify before Congress, according to the 2006 edition of the "National Parks and the woman's voice: a history"

"A few people like Margot had happened. This is not something that an agency did," said David Brown, the conservation chair of the Santa Monica Mountains Task Force. "She insisted, she had connections that helped his mind."

On the West Side in 1978 a group of park supporters are nervously awaiting the results of a conference vote when a phone rang.

Feuer has to answer, and again to announce that legislation establishing the recreation area has passed. The park has since grown to more than 150,000 hectares to include.

Feuer sees the creation of the park as a great achievement - and a reaffirmation of the democratic process.

"The public is so often instructed not really in" action on a specific goal depends, she said to The Times in 1978. "It confirms the need for really depends. All the people who worked there - for the length of time - did it."

A portion of the quote on a plaque at the recreation area was recently opened visitor center at the historic King. Gillette Ranch, a piece of land in Calabasas that Feuer helped the rescue of the development.

Margot Elizabeth Kramer was born in 1922 and grew up in New Haven, Connecticut, the youngest of two daughters, Eva and Morris Kramer, immigrants from Russia. Her father was farming in South Dakota to fur up.

Grew, she developed an appreciation for nature while walking the roads of Long Island, her son said.

At Wellesley College, she earned a BA degree in music in 1943 before moving to New York to try to make it in the theater.

In 1946, she moved to Los Angeles for her singing career to promote. She soon met and married Stanley Feuer, who was a mechanical engineer.

If a local environmental activist Margot Feuer started as a founder of Stamp Out Smog, by women who formed "self-described amateur in politics, but willing to learn," The Times reported in 1959.

Since the mid-1960s, she was involved with the provincial government on land use planning issues and has served on the South Coast Regional Commission of the California Coastal.

As a founder and leader of the Save Open Space Santa Monica Mountains, Feuer has an important role in helping the Ahmanson Ranch preserve on the eastern edge of Ventura County and neighboring Jordan Ranch, according to. Joanne Jackson, a longtime friend.

Feuer Besides her son, Mark of Boulder, Colo., is survived by two sons, Zachary Feuer of Los Angeles and Dr. Joshua Feuer Santa Barbara, and four grandchildren. Her husband died at 74 in 1989.

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