Fred Segal

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Fred Segal Store on Melrose Avenue

Fred Segal is a Los Angeles, California based clothing retailer that has become synonymous with hip, trendsetting, and essential fashion.

Its founder, Fred Segal, is a successful entrepreneur whose personal and professional history mirrors the bold emergence of Los Angeles as a world capital over the last four decades. He created the fashion jean, which launched a brand new industry.

There are currently two Fred Segal stores: one in Hollywood (on Melrose Avenue) and the other in Santa Monica. In 1976, the Hollywood location was purchased by Ron Herman, who still operates it under the Fred Segal brand. The Santa Monica store is still owned by the Segal family, one of whom, Nina Segal, has opened her own online jewelry store Nina Segal Jewelry.

[edit] References in popular culture

It is mentioned as a meeting point for stupid girls in the eponymous 2006 single by P!nk.

Fred Segal is presumed to be the name of a person who gets stood up for a date in The Lonely Island's music video "Ka-Blamo!"

In Bret Easton Ellis's Less Than Zero, Fred Segal is mentioned several times. Clay, the protagonist, thinks that all English boys he meets work at Fred Segal.

In Clueless, Cher asks her maid when trying to put together an outfit for her drivers license, "Lucy! Where's my white collarless shirt from Fred Segal?!"

In Legally Blonde, Elle Woods, played by Reese Witherspoon, relates the following story to her new classmates at Harvard: "And last week I saw Cameron Diaz at Fred Segal, and I talked her out of buying this truly heinous angora sweater. Whoever said orange was the new pink was seriously disturbed!"