In this issue, a new class of the city’s luminaries — designers, models, artists — show where clothing and style are going: to the root
There is no normalcy to the clothing artist Sonya Sombreuil makes. She is moving at her own speed.
Physical spaces in L.A. have always been sacred. Ashley S.P. and Jennifer Zapata see their concept shop as a vehicle for community and an homage to their friendship.
The L.A.-based designer behind TOMBOGO uses sustainable materials to create clothes that feel fluid, scrappy and utilitarian.
In L.A.’s competitive vintage scene, Nick Flanagan and Lex Muro specialize in showing you the right way to take it back.
Guillermo Juarez’s designs are symbols of fullness and holiness — and love offerings to the higher power that watches over Los Angeles.
The skater and model didn’t need the industry to show her what was cool. She figured it out by getting right within.
Modeling doesn’t have to be about clout or fame. It can be an expression of how one moves through the world.
When films lose their appeal with the public, turn into cult objects or get killed by giants like Warner Bros. Discovery, what is left of the work? Jackets given out at wrap parties.
The L.A. duo is pushing their craft into more expansive, sometimes challenging territory by leaning on each other.
Modeling is a call to visibility and to being trans loudly: “I love being playful with the real world.”
Through modeling, she’s breaking out of the identity she’s felt boxed into for the last two years — the organizer who was arrested and is still facing charges.
Model Sarita Fernandez and makeup artist Selena Ruiz on the power of gassing each other up on set and ending the night at Phở 87.
With each collection, the experimental designer traces the myriad inspirations from the city that she draws from regularly: her community, the evening light, the scrambled architecture of L.A.
The Polio brothers are shaking up the modeling game with a bond that’s hard to explain.
Suay Sew Shop is attempting something that feels necessary: showing that waste is a choice that doesn’t need to be made.
Last One Left’s Christopher M. Bailey’s latest collection is an experiment in sustainably remixing the fashion of yesterday.
Marcus Correa knows fashion doesn’t mean anything without the specific stories that people bring with them.
From Delos to Busybdy to DITA, here’s how you add fresh colors, textures and silhouettes to your closet.
From the L.A. designers taking over NYFW to the buzziest shows in town, the Drip Index got you covered.
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A living conversation among L.A.'s intellectual giants — artists, scholars, activists and writers.
Market research, reviews, close reads on fashion objects, luxury goods and innovative products.
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Essays, criticism and style analysis that make the fashion trends of L.A. make sense on their own terms.
When the stylists and fashion artists of L.A. make themselves into the work.
A running tab of the hottest pop-up, drops, releases and events in L.A. every month.
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Anyone can buy a secondhand L-shaped sectional on Facebook Marketplace, but snagging a curved couch involves more capital, effort and taste.
There are many different kinds of podiatric self-care that one can indulge in, and in my own personal journey to finding the most thorough of them, one rises above the rest.
On the corner of Beverly Boulevard and Alvarado Street, Hope’s Liquor is a place to buy booze and junk food, but at its core it’s also a shared space for a neighborhood that lacks resources.
In a space where everything — even the bed he sleeps in — is inspiration, the 71-year-old Chinese designer feels free to finally play for his own pleasure.
Artist Matthew Thomas shows how the traditions of Buddhism and Black American abstraction both provide a sense of freedom and agility of faith.
From LU’U DAN’s Denim Phat Pants to Homage Year’s Ova Bag, these pieces will help you stay rooted, no matter your state of being.
What is emerging? Where are we headed? What is in the future? Listen to artist Edgar Fabián Frías and what will be will be.
The old mentalities about what it means to be a woman of faith are dying. Walk into ONE in L.A. and you’ll see what shattering stereotypes looks like.
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L.A. artist Maria Maea reaches for a new level of ancestral knowledge through work that functions outside of market calendars.
L.A.-based artist Amanda Maciel Antunes opens up another realm to talk to the famed erotics writer and diarist — 45 years after her death.
