Oversized is a lifestyle, not a trend for the brand from the San Gabriel Valley. Its designs are driven by the idea of feeling like you can grow, change and move around in clothing.
The city of cement and angels loves some contrast. It loves a little industrial chic.
The Taiwanese American artist’s designs are an antidote for a textile industry status quo that just talks the talk.
Daniel DeSure’s brand and the artist community behind it are pushing the possibilities of communicating through graphics on clothes.
Fashion is a canvas for the designer behind the namesake fashion brand. Her handcrafted works are expressions of her desire to make something beautiful.
The multihyphenate artist is finding freedom in trying things for fun, and then mastering them.
There’s a classic feeling to L.A.’s favorite regalia that transcends genre and class. Every time you freak it, you step into a high-fashion world that is all your own.
Smart fashion is not about an aesthetic. The brand once called a cross between Comme des Garçons and Levi’s knows that it’s about putting something extra on it just for you.
There’s still a mystery and magic to the drive found in everyone’s favorite movie. The cinematic is calling you to pull over.
Chances are you have crossed paths with LTTT somewhere. The fashion brand by Jiro Maetsu is an “unspoken but blatant community” that has exploded from L.A. to the world.
Bespoke clothing is not an everyday occurrence in L.A. But for Erik Kim and Paul Um, creating a one-of-one piece is a religious experience.
‘No matter what I’m doing, you’ll always know where I’m from, my influences and my culture.’
Since its inception over a decade ago, the brand has steered the conversation about clothes with unmatched inventiveness by continuing to experiment with any given guardrails.
Rio Uribe is closing the book on his 10-year-old brand at NYFW. But the GS legacy — flying your freak flag on your back and riding for your community through your clothes — lives on.
From Loewe’s Toy Over the Knee Boot to Bottega Veneta’s Cotton Patched Pointelle dress, here’s what to covet in September.
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Artist Jacob Rochester’s portait, a subtle homage to the late Spanto, explores the lens of identity but by way of anonymity.
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Artist Sable Elyse Smith draws on the sights and sounds and language of the carnival and the prison, revealing how deeply intertwined punishment is with entertainment and spectacle.
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The surrealist blues poet is a musician of the subversive imagination, a truth-telling magician. Her poems are powerful and dangerous, like violets pushing through concrete to kiss the sun.
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To the unsympathetic eye, the hairstyle is peculiar, so childlike and unflattering as to be offensive. But as rasquache provocation, it’s also a work of anti-assimilationist art.
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Having experienced the most spiritual growth of his life in the last year, the songbird from San Pedro is finally ready to fully share himself — and his first album in six years — with the world.
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If you need help filling out your September calendar, our curated list of fashion events, parties, pop-ups and launches will get you right.
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They are a middle finger to the gods of couture and good taste. But the thrill of the Frankenstein object is that it could be a means of self-expression or a gateway into DIY craftiness.
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My bond with Fred Moten spans a nation of Black music. The music of collective improvisation mirrors the relationships in your life and your relationship to your own many-layered consciousness.
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I envy Knicks fans. I look over the white picket fence that separates us, me in my lavish, marble-appointed castle and them, with their quaint Craftsman that could maybe use a fresh coat of paint and some landscaping.
Marine Serre’s Silk Scarves Bowling Shirt. Supervsn x Tommy Hilfiger’s “Nu America” jacket. No Sesso’s debut Carry Bag collection. Here’s what to covet this month.
Jason Parham on leaving Los Angeles for New York: ‘What I sought in the story of this new frame was a rejection of stasis. What I went looking for in New York was the person I always dreamed of being in Los Angeles.’
Haley Mlotek and Thora Siemsen exchange emails about leaving New York: ‘The version of New York I miss most is the one I see in the movies and probably never actually quite experienced, and otherwise I just miss people.’
For nearly 30 years, she’s been something of a creative secret weapon. The multihyphenate artist reflects on her contributions across disciplines that could fill this page and then some.
From Givenchy landing on Rodeo to the reopening of CAAM, the Drip Index can be the hot drink to your already blistering days with no shade in the city.
A new collaboration by artists Georgina Treviño and Ozzie Juarez will transport you to another time — whether that’s the future or the past is up to you.
Freak City’s latest collection is a body of references that calls back to the ideas that shaped the cult brand into what it is: a celebration of irreverence, outcasts, underground culture, music, graffiti and the city that it calls home.
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From D.S. & Durga’s opening to Hermès’ new exhibition to Freak City’s first runway show, the Drip Index can help you paint the city in all the right ways.
