If L.A. is a city of neighborhoods, as is often said, Frank Gehry’s trajectory and standing as a towering figure in his field can be traced back to Santa Monica and its adjacent communities.
Get Creative in Santa Monica
How Murray Hidary lets music lead him, in life and performance in Santa Monica, California.
With fewer public events, more people working from home, and battered economies impacting purchases, Brunello Cucinelli is focused on demonstrating how luxury brands can adapt to a new way of life.
Amanda Chantal Bacon is a born-and-raised New Yorker, though after working in various fine-dining kitchens in Europe and South America—and a brief stint as a food reporter for the Los Angeles Times—she opened the first Moon Juice shop in Venice on Rose Avenue in 2011.
Kenneth Nicholson has a penchant for romanticizing life’s minutiae. The Los Angeles-based fashion designer’s eponymous label is an amalgamation of life’s finer things: lace and velvet and silk and linen.
As someone who once struggled to make a living as an artist, Chelsea Neman Nassib knows how meaningful support can be. Seeing artists succeed is one of the things that keeps her excited about her work with Tappan Collective.
Finding a board that connects with the waves in a harmonious way is a lasting desire of surfers. For Tyler Frome, hollow surfboards are that vessel.
There are infinite perspectives on L.A., a place of many places and fragrances, to be manifested.
To Sophia Moreno-Bunge, palm inflorescences look like something from the sea: white tentacles dangling among a palm’s waving fronds, lavender coral among golden puffs and pastel flowers in her botanical arrangements.
Franck Savoy is leaving a mark on the California food scene with his flair for the creative and a perpetual willingness to experiment.