Los Angeles Rumors
SSENSE
Oct 26 2019
Photographers Sean + Seng Paint the Emotional Landscape of the City of Angels
Most iconic cities are mysteries in familiar clothing. We celebrate their respective ciphers, beyond which we know little else. There’s a certain allure to pictures made by a visitor in Los Angeles. The ostensibly classic tropes—skateboarding, palm trees, Venice Beach, the view from Beverly Hills—always reveal previously unacknowledged details. Sean + Seng pass through LA with a troupe of sun-kissed teens, capturing the city’s emphasized features, as well as its subtle minutiae.
Anti-Fashion A Guide To Sartorial Counter-Programming Fashion applies pressure from every angle. It is in our heads as much as it is on our bodies, buttressed by years of ad messaging, peer pressure, and media intake. We are convinced that our bodies are the wrong shapes, that our never-quite-right wardrobes are somehow holding us back. We sacrifice time, energy, money, and comfort in pursuit of moving targets, knowing full well that advertisements and social media are selling us fantasies. As much as we are drawn to fashion as a landscape of desires, we unconsciously yearn to quit shopping within a pre-set market of identities. 
Marcelo Burlon Is Chasing the Contemporary Visiting the Designer at His Studio in Milan Marcelo Burlon’s County of Milan has rapidly grown to become one of the most dynamic contemporary brands in Italian fashion. Its trademark mix of South American tribal symbolism with laptop aesthetics skews the boundaries between the cultures of mysticism and raving. 
A Tête-à-Tête with Andrew Richardson The Stylist-Turned-Editor-Turned-Designer Explains the Power of Vulgarity and the Secret Codes in His Work “I find good taste, relentless good taste, to be really boring,” explains Andrew Richardson. Having worked closely with Steven Meisel, Terry Richardson (no relation), and David Sims, it is no surprise that Richardson understands the sophistication that lies within vulgarity.