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Color-blocked jeans, bold-lettered tees, and a message stitched into every garment: "Clothing Without Prejudice." Cross Colours dressed the Fresh Prince, half of early-90s hip-hop, and every kid who wanted to look like MTV — then vanished almost overnight when its biggest retailer went bankrupt.
Lauren Conrad left Laguna Beach for Los Angeles, a Teen Vogue internship, and four years of impeccably lit drama about whether any of it was real. The Hills perfected the scripted-or-not reality soap — then ended the whole argument with television's greatest mic drop, pulling the camera back to reveal a studio backlot.
"The Coast Is Toast": a volcano erupts out of the La Brea Tar Pits and sends lava rolling down Wilshire Boulevard, with only Tommy Lee Jones and some concrete freeway barriers standing in its way. The other half of 1997's inexplicable dueling-volcano-movie showdown — and the one that lost.