About
Meet Mondette, here to transform this sprawl of a city into your little world. You may already follow Mondette’s little sib Blackburn + Sweetzer, that neighborhood style blog that’s covered Los Angeles’s West 3rd Street area since 2007, scouting out what’s new in retail and fashion, food and restaurant, real estate, beauty, trends, sales and more.
You’ll now find B+S on Mondette, as well as the addition of Rosewood + Martel, which expands the blog’s hyper-local coverage; while B+S encompasses West 3rd Street to Melrose Avenue, Robertson Boulevard to La Brea Avenue, R+M covers Beverly to Santa Monica Boulevards, Fairfax Avenue to Larchmont Boulevard.
We do venture outside these geographic bounds when editorially appropriate, but our primary focus is the neighborhood and bolstering a hyper-local lifestyle, where denizens walk-shop-eat-enjoy what’s just down the way simply by knowing it’s there.
Of course, Mondette isn’t just for those in the neighborhood; it’s also a fantastic resource for anyone interested in these very urban, ever-changing, and much adored slices of the city.
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Tasha Nita Adams
founder/CEO
After a stint in production at NBC Network News in Washington, DC, Tasha Nita Adams moved to Los Angeles and cut her teeth in print journalism as a Senior Editor covering lifestyle at magazines Angeleno and Movieline. Online, she created all content for Variety’s The Stylephile, then moved on to become Associate Retail and Events Editor, West Coast for fashion forecasting company Worth Global Style Network. From there, she launched and was the Editor of retail and fashion blog Racked LA. It was in 2007 while writing for The Stylephile that she created and launched neighborhood style blog Blackburn+Sweetzer. Based on the blog’s continued growth, she’s teamed up with colleagues Lilliam Rivera and Christina von Messling to form Mondette, an expansion in both geographical and editorial scope.
Adams has a BA from Stanford University and an MFA in creative writing from University of Arizona. She’s also worked as a freelance journalist for publications such as Los Angeles Magazine, Variety, WWD, DailyCandy, UrbanDaddy, Thrillist, US Weekly, Tu Ciudad, Everyday with Rachael Ray, and others, as well as created marketing and PR copy for retail/fashion, architecture and food.
Lilliam Rivera
editorial director/VP
Native New Yorker Lilliam Rivera began her editorial career fifteen years ago as part of the team that launched the first bilingual woman’s lifestyle magazine and its online component, Latina. She moved to Los Angeles with a staff position at Eonline.com, creating a fashion department, contributing to the launch of Stylenetwork.com and collaborating with the marketing team to launch user engagement online packages (advertorials, micro-sites, sweepstakes). She followed with a stint as West Coast Fashion Editor for In Touch Weekly, covering celebrity fashion and New York and Los Angeles fashion weeks. As Modern Luxury Media’s Online Editor-in-Chief, Rivera managed the launch and maintenance of their website plus 10-local weekly newsletters.
Rivera has extensive experience in new media, editorial strategy, audience development and offline/online convergence (print, TV, marketing). Her writing has appeared in California Apparel News, Variety, Women’s Wear Daily, Eonline.com, and among others.
Christina von Messling
creative director/VP
A European transplant, Christina von Messling received a master of laws in Germany, then promptly embarked to the U.S. to work as a freelance photographer. Besides her many corporate clients, von Messling now shoots for a wide variety of national and international publications (Vogue Italia, British Vogue, Brigitte, Bunte, German GQ, Woman, Yen, Flaunt, LA Confidential, Hint, among others). Her work as a regular fashion and portrait photographer at Racked.com connected her with Tasha Nita Adams where she also worked as a writer. She continued to collaborate both visually and editorially with Adams on Blackburn+Sweetzer.
Her visual point of view is strongly influenced by her “old world” roots but her life in Southern California has added a modern element to her work. There’s a flexibility and well roundedness that enables her to quickly grasp the visual aspects of any project she’s involved in. Over the years, she’s branched out of her core field of fashion and portraiture with product, travel and landscape photography.
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Privacy Policy
At Mondette, we realize your privacy is important. This Privacy Policy addresses the information collected and how we use that information when you register for the Mondette Newsletter, the Sales Calendar and/or visit our Web site. Any changes to the policy will be posted here. If you have any questions or concerns about our policy or its implementation, you may contact us at privacypolicy@mondette.com.
Children’s Privacy
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Information We Collect and How We Use It
— Personal Information
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— Non-Personal Information
We will also ask you for non-personally identifiable information—including, but not limited to, your gender, your income and age range—so that we may better provide you with content and services best suited to you.
— Usage Information
Mondette may also collect information about site or product usage that we use for the purposes of designing, modifying, or improving our products and services. If this information is shared, such as with advertisers, it is only done so in the aggregate and in an anonymous form; it is not linked to your personally identifiable information.
— Tracking Information
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Your Choices
We offer you choices when we ask for personally identifiable information, whenever reasonably possible. We will also make a good faith effort to provide you with access to your personally identifiable information upon request, and let you correct such data if it is inaccurate.
Links to Other Sites
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If we ever send you information by email concerning new products or services that you did not expressly request, we will provide you with an email address by which you may request no future notices.
Security
The Site and the Service have security measures in place to prevent the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information that we obtain from you, but we provide no assurances or warranty representing our ability to prevent any such loss, misuse, to you or to any third party arising out of any such loss, misuse, or alteration. Nobody is safe from hackers these days. Without warranty, Mondette will notify you as soon as possible if a breach in security results in an unauthorized intrusion into our system which directly or materially affects you and will subsequently report the corrective action taken in response to the intrusion.
Modifications to This Privacy Policy
We reserve the right, at any time, to change, update, modify or add to this Policy. Any changes, updates, modifications or additions will be effective immediately upon posting to this site without any other notice to you. In order to ensure that you continue to agree with all of the Policy’s terms, it is your responsibility to review the Policy from time to time.
