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SANTA MONICA AIRPORT BARKER HANGAR | FEBRUARY 29th – MARCH 2nd 2024 | LOS ANGELES
NAME: Flora Wildes | @florawildes / Oscar Stoltz | @obeatz
THEIR STORY: Actress Flora Wildes scored her pumpkin suede maxi coat in Berlin, while musician Oscar Stoltz (@Obeatz on insta) makes his own pants, often selling them to musician pals. His leather bomber courtesy of a biker shop.
NAME: CarlyPetersMeyer / @artpopbycarly
HER STORY: Carly Petersmeyer, hair stylist and educator, is clearly one of L.A.’s great fashionistas. Her cotton candy rosette cape and pants were procured on London’s Selezza shopping site – Selezza.co.uk.
Those daring eyeball earrings are by Schiaparelli, darling – who else? Shoes by Fy Zoe (fyzoeshoe.com)
NAME: Lina Kogan |@linakoganart
HER STORY: Artist Lina Kogan paints her own scarves, tights – whatever moves her. You can find it all on her.
Come into Merle’s Closet for an insider’s view of the inner world of L.A. style.
Fashion: love or fear it, it can own you – or you, it. Sure, you can think of it as vanity, materialism, superficiality, to the max. But to many in the arts, fashion’s just another art form – clothing a means of expression as powerful as any, whether visual, auditory or verbal. You can make art – and you can be art. There’s no “either, or.” In my own many years as a culture journalist, I’ve observed that, while many artists have so-called “uniforms” (Picasso: Breton sweaters and tartan trousers; Gilbert and George, suits; Yayoi Kusama, big dots, Miuccia Prada; big volume skirts and platform pumps), those tend to be just as expressive as someone who labors over every outfit (guilty), even if uniforms vary rarely. Some artists dress for attention; some to deter it (though with Billie Eilish, it’s hard to tell.) There’s little in between.
Some consider dressing their art – myself among them. Strolling the long halls of the tented Barker Hangar for Frieze this past week, there was no lack of eye candy (#icandyla) – and no lack of eyes to take it all in – the art , the artists and the clothes. To me, they were almost inseparable. Oddly – or naturally – many of the hues in the disparate looks – on walls, on backs – reflected each other in terms of tone, texture, pattern, print. Zeitgeist? Or synchronicity? Or happy accident? Are artists naturally stylish without giving it thought? Is it simply a byproduct of career visualists? Or a unique way of seeing the world unique to those tuned into a different (higher?) frequency? One thing we learned: when shown off adjacently in close quarters, art and fashion bounce off each other like light rays – at once, flattering, dissonant and enlightening of each other.
NAME: @emilyyysinger | @sophsorrentino
NAME: @jessicatrentpr | @brenna.pierose
NAME: @grantalexandra
HER STORY: Artist Alexandra Grant picked up her knit pieces from Germany because of the color: “Chartreuse!”
NAME: Emilia Yin | @emiliayinla
HER STORY: Emilia Yin, owner of the Make Room Gallery on Waring in Weho, has as good an eye for color/texture combos as any artist. Her jacket is from designer Zhu Chongyun, top by Issy Miyake, and the pale green satin pants – she can’t recall. However, her long chandelier earrings were made by an artist – out of law books.
NAME: Miriam Shyti | @miriamshyti
HER STORY: Miriam Shyti picked up her bottle green cropped leather jacket – a look representative of spring 2024 – at a thrift store in her native Albania.
NAME: Jaren Savage | @jarensavage
HIS STORY: Compton and Milan based artist Jaren Savage makes unisex suits – all done in Italy – and he’s about to launch his own shoe collection. Check him out or order on JarenSavage.com. Before everyone else does.
NAME: @bjpandabear
NAME: @vivianrey_
NAME: @eleanors.closet
NAME: Lauren Fonda | @laurenfonda / David Flippin
THEIR STORY: Lauren Fonda picked up her white and grey fuzzer at a vintage store in Maine – putting it together with white pants by The Row and a tiny fuzzy Fendi anime bag. David Flippin stays toasty in a Pendleton plaid jacket.
NAME: Khinda Decossard | @only1_khin
HER STORY: Khinda Decossard reps artists, but her look gives it away: she worked in the New York fashion world for years, for the likes of Tommy Hilfiger and Chanel. Those hard-to-get sneakers: a rare Nike collab with British footwear designer Martine Rose. Try finding them online – for under a grand!!
NAME: Heidy Garay | @heidy_garay_studio / Mikell Fine
THEIR STORY: Artist Heidy Garay and Mikell Fine Iles know their way around cool color combos.
NAME: @simplynef
HER STORY: Curator Nefertiti, who hails from Chicago, looks decked out in Comme des Garcons – but an artist friend created her tulle-tiered trenchcoat.
NAME: @glitterdayz | @christinashadle | @danidazey | @loveandloathingla | @lalauraloo
NAME: @mayagarabedian
NAME: Darrell Britt-Gibson | @chipsheridan / Nate Edwards | @natethedirector
THEIR STORY: Darrell Britt-Gibson, who starred in The Wire,” stars in the first feature by his pal Nate Edwards, which debuts on Hulu in the fall, called “She Taught Love.” Obviously they both love a look: Darrell a yellow ski cap paired with painted pants; Nate’s wearing two tone cargo pants from Pharrell’s first collection for Moncler, paired with a second hand jacket and Zara boots.
NAME: Leila Ardebilchi | @maximilist_official
HER STORY: Leila Ardebilchi is a creative director and part of an art duo. Her insta is @Maximalist_Official
NAME: Drew Arvizu | @girlacne
HIS STORY: Drew Arvizu is a fashion designers, stylist – and walking art project. Right before we shot this photo, Diane Keaton approached him and demanded his Dolls Kill white platforms. His real job, though: “I go to parties.” Red suit procured t the Community Thift Store of Covina.
NAME: Jason Bentley | @thejasonbentley
HIS STORY: The one and only Jason Bentley – L.A.’s best known dj extraordinaire – excelling in all things music and clothes – rocks a black and gold Dries van Noten jacket, Dries van Noten shirt, Acne jeans.
NAME: #friezelosangeles | #friezeofficial
NAME: #friezelosangeles #friezeofficial