Yasmine Benjamin’s friend, Jeffrey Dic, was convinced that she needed to make a book on Los Angeles style. From her early days to go to shows and work the door at parties for many years wandering as a designer, Benjamin knew everyone – designers, skiers, musicians. She was fluent in the visual language that formed the city, and knew its cultures and neighborhoods like her hand. In the forefront of her new book, “The City of Angels: a book on Los Angeles style”, Benjamin wrote: “What happens in Los Angeles does not remain in Los Angeles”, with reference to the impact that is not often and often dependent on fashion and culture around the world. Benjamin cists in Alessandro Michelle Gucci and Hedley Suleiman Celine as only two of the many fashion houses who have derived from Los Angeles culture in the past few years alone. In addition to the map of La designed by the artist sick This includes La Cita and The Troubadour, “The City of Angels”, which includes an introduction from the British Vogue Editor Chioma Nnadi: “I have Yasmine Benjamin to thank the opening of my eyes to the city.
Pia Davis and Fall Randolph La Ciso.
Sonya Sombreuil of Come Tees.
It was important that Benjamin “the city of angels” was arrested through its lens, which represents its appearance for the first time as a photographer for the first time. She took 124 photographs of La icons in front of a meaningful-tropical juice in Hailand Park to the jewelry area-inspired by the shape of the old Japanese street shots in fruits magazine. The stirring through “City of Angels” appears to be as if it is going through the annual La, where everyone wins “the best clothes”. Part of the excitement is to discover the number of people you know, and to draw creative societies in Los Angeles Kweib interconnected. There is a feeling that creates the vision of this attribute from the printed faces: these are artists, designers and musicians of our time – from Brington Darius to Sonia sombreuilFrom YG to Isabelle Albuquerque, Pia Davis and Autumn Randolph to Leavemanand Lauren Halsusi to Guadalobi Rosalis. The list goes on.
With “Angels City”, the world was invited to understand that Los Angeles style was never about clothes. It comes to the way people move here, and the way they contribute to the city and each other.
Julisa James: I saw Jay 305 After Vogue’s article on your book came out. He was holding the court at Canyon Coffee and was like, “Have you seen my picture in Vogue?” He was very excited.
Yasmine Benjamin: I love that I just said. There are many reasons why I wanted to do this book, but this is one of the reasons: for someone to raise these people and this point of view. everyone In Los Angeles, Jay 305 is known. It is flying. He has a lot of charisma. It is great around the road. I did not tell Vogue to choose it, but of course they chose it.
JJ: How did this book come? I know that you are a collector for books and books of the coffee table in general. I wonder, were you looking at your group thinking, “something like this is missing.”
JB: I am a fan of books and the media because I came before social media, so the magazines were the most important thing. This is the way you know who is the parties – look at a magazine. So the archiving is important, but I have to always make sure of the highlight of Jeffrey Dic, because he is my friend, and he is the person who put this in my ears. It was quite example, “You must do a book. You are really smart, and you have a great taste and you have the most diverse group of societies that you know in Los Angeles, which really represents a book on Los Angeles style.”
JJ: I know that many people appeared in the book came from a natural connection. Can you tell me a little about your history and background in Los Angeles, and how did you get to know many of these people in creative circles?
JB: She moved to Los Angeles in 2002 to go to FIDM. I had a room colleague and my colleague’s cousin was a friend of this girl. Literally, the first place they took was Leimert Park with [filmmaker and artist] Kahlil Joseph and his girlfriend. He had a party called “Juju”. This is in 2002 or 2003. I was very lucky for the first point to be a local thing, not only in the madness of the Hollywood industry. Then I was interfering in Interscope records and going to shows. Then I was working on the door in these things that were really important at the time, called Temple Bar and Zanzibar. Everyone was there – Lotus Air, MiguelThundercat, J*Davey, all of these people. But they were children! I was a child.
JJ: How did you go to pick up?
JB: I started putting an Excel paper together from every person you thought should be in it, whether you knew them or not. Get my virgin satellite and height in equipment. From that, I will be like, “Well, from the missing? What are the cultures that I do not get? The first time I did it, I might have had 80 people I wrote. Book 124 [people].
JJ: What amazes me also – I know it is a book on La style, the topic in the foreground and the center – but it also looks like an archive of the city.
JB: This is my first book, so I had the intention of what I wanted to be from the beginning, but in the end, when I was putting all this together, I was like, “You know? The book really about style, people and places.” Many of these places that he shot with people, they mean something for me as well. I also felt that I had to do this because I don’t know how much time the regional style would remain with us because of the Internet. As people were dying, like Spanto. He was a friend of mine for many years. It was only the urgency [building] More and more because of all the things that were happening in Los Angeles. I had to pick up La the way Los Angeles saw, the way I tried it, and how I loved it, forever.
Lauren London.
Spotty.
Nathaniel Santos.
Duckwrth.
JJ: I talked about Los Angeles’s regional style. If you have to put some words as it is, what will be?
JB: I would always like to say classics and work clothes – because this style, these two things, is literally present in each type of different sub -culture. They wear it in their own way. When I say classics, I mean white tendencies, clothing shoes, denim. Dicks forever, Fabric shoes. These things are part of Los Angeles [style] Regardless of your age, economic background, race or sex.
JJ: I put this book together over the years. Are there any specific stories or interactions while making the book that stands out in your memory?
2 ton, left, and Spanto who was born X that was raised.
JB: When I look at the pictures, I can remember almost everything that happened on that day. Certainly take Spanto and Alex [2Tone]A picture in the garden, because it was just an ordinary day with Spanto. No one loves Los Angeles more than Spanto. I remember when I took the picture, I was still early to take pictures, and I had no memory card in the camera. I got only one photo. They were like, “Well, we will be on the street in Alex, so that you can return home and get your memory card” – because I lived near – and I went and took more pictures. But guess what it ended the image? The first picture. Another really cool was talking to YG- he is very enthusiastic, very smart and well thoughtful when it comes to Los Angeles style. I like to talk to him too the [Polio] Twins. I knew them for many years, from shopping at the opening ceremony or parties. When I came to their neighborhood, they were like, “We cannot believe that you came to our area.” I was like, “This is the complete goal of the book!” They were only cute with me. Brington Darius on the bloc originated his entire family in WhatsApp nearly 70 years ago. Even Jesse Joe Stark. Jesse is part of the conversation – no girl, kings fashion. Now we are just friends forever.
JJ: Why do we need a book like this in the world?
JB: I was late. Los Angeles needs her visual poll of what people who live here seem to be here, and not just work here.
Jesse Joe Stark.
Laura Harier.
Daniela is a prominent nickname Danny.
Drewbyrd.
Bo Johnson.
Sandy Kim.
Annahstasia Enuke.
Andrew Dryiden and Joseph Quinnes from departure.
Shannon Johnson.
Billy Quinones.
Johnny Valencia.
Lex Cabral Odouzco.
