Fashion PR shuttering its L.A. office; Raleigh PR firm to close

There was news this week that two unrelated PR shops have closed. Paul Wilmot Communications, which is owned by Fleishman-Hillard and headquartered in Manhattan, is closing its Los Angeles office. Wilmot told Fashion Week Daily that the L.A.office, opened in March, was an experiment that didn’t work. “We just didn’t find” any business out there, he said. Wilmot’s clients include Oscar de la Renta, Tommy Hilfiger and the Whitney Museum. Meanwhile, Raleigh, N.C.-based PR …