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Annie Leibovitz revisits her early years in California.................................................................................... 62 Why high-end cannabis wants a high-minded consumer......................................................................... 75

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A crop of Los Angeles shops earns the Louis Vuitton seal of approval............................................ 84

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The worldly flavors of chef Mei Lin’s Nightshade............................................................................................ 88 Why glass is blowing up the art world........................................................................................................................ 94

FEATURES Fashion and fantasy at the Getty Villa................................................................................................................................................................................ 100 Model mom Maye Musk’s big moment .......................................................................................................................................................................... 112 Why Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is moving into the beauty business..................................................................................................... 120

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A look inside fashion designer Rosetta Getty’s Hollywood home............................................................................................................ 132 Can designer Mike Amiri create California’s first luxury superbrand?.................................................................................................. 142

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What to do in marvelous Marfa............................................................................................................................................................................................... 149 Feel-good facials.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 155 Stylist Petra Flannery’s Golden State hot spots.......................................................................................................................................................... 158

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Founder, Editorial Director & CEO JENNY MURRAY

Editor & President Chief Brand & Content Officer

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| Chief Creative Officer JAMES TIMMINS

Executive Creative & Fashion Director

ALISON EDMOND

LESLEY McKENZIE

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KELLY ATTERTON

ELIZABETH KHURI CHANDLER

GABRIELLE MIRKIN

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Contributing Senior Editor MELISSA GOLDSTEIN San Francisco Editor-at-Large Diane Dorrans Saeks | Contributing Editor-at-Large Kendall Conrad Contributing Editors Caroline Cagney, Danielle DiMeglio, Kelsey McKinnon, Andrea Stanford, Stephanie Steinman, Nathan Turner Contributing Writers Catherine Bigelow, Kerstin Czarra, Heather John Fogarty, Marshall Heyman, Punch Hutton, Christine Lennon, Martha McCully, Degen Pener, Jessica Ritz, Lindzi Scharf, Khanh T.L. Tran, Elizabeth Varnell, S. Irene Virbila Contributing Photographers Christian Anwander, David Cameron, Mark Griffin Champion, Victor Demarchelier, Amanda Demme, Michelangelo di Battista, Lisa Eisner, Douglas Friedman, Sam Frost, Beau Grealy, Zoey Grossman, Pamela Hanson, Kurt Iswarienko, Mona Kuhn, Kurt Markus, Carter Smith, Alistair Taylor-Young, Jan Welters

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n life, one’s journey can be divided into chapters.

As time goes by, you grow … or at least you hope you do. Complacency, while easy and safe, isn’t the most exciting route to choose. Forward moving, forward thinking is what this state was built on — think of its long history of dreamers, creators, artists, musicians, scientists, chefs, winemakers and designers. We honor that tradition of taking risks as we embark on our next phase. After more than 13 years of publishing C, we are still the only magazine focused on all things California. And with the rising tide of Cali cool in the spotlight more than ever, we thought it was time to shake things up.

In your hands is our newly redesigned publication, beginning with our name. Style and culture are so integral to our editorial focus now, we made the words part of our logo. Everything that is new and of the moment, from fashion to food, will be featured in our new Statements section at the front. Meanwhile, our feature stories will continue to deliver sensational fashion editorials with the most sought-after talents in Hollywood and beyond, with sleek portraiture of icons and power players from the realms of style and the arts — all the while celebrating the sheer beauty of our state.

When planning this issue, it was important we continue the tradition of telling stories as only C can, thanks to the fact that we are here day in and day out.

Our cover star is Los Angeles resident Rosie HuntingtonWhiteley, whom we shot against the dramatic backdrop of the Vasquez Rocks. This is Rosie’s second C cover, and the power of a woman who’s launched her own beauty business permeates each of in-demand photographer Zoey Grossman’s images.

Stories such as this, of our friends and neighbors, are of course worthy of national attention, but we believe they are told best from our familiar vantage point. Take our day spent with Rosetta Getty, who is making a serious sartorial mark from her West Coast perch. We met with Getty at her historic home overlooking the iconic Sunset Strip, and she opened up — in a way that only real friends do (I say

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EDITORS’ PICKS this because I am lucky enough to call her one of my dearest) — about how her family of six lives in a house filled with modern art and treasured heirlooms.

On the topic of fashion, we profile Californian thoroughbred designer Mike Amiri at his downtown compound as he takes his rock-edged streetwear empire global. His L.A.-inspired wares have quickly achieved cult status (Michael B. Jordan and Sting are fans), and in less than five years he has become one of California’s biggest luxury brands on the world stage.

Add to the mix an interview with Maye Musk — a dietitian, fashion maven and nascent supermodel at 70 — and the issue starts to relate the complex culture that surrounds us on the West Coast. And in my humble opinion, it is the best coast. While New York has its charm, California is full of romantics who believe in the magic of this storied state.

Because when you see that epic sunset over the ocean, it stays with you forever. It did for me, and that’s the very reason I created a magazine as a love letter to it. When I hit Pacific Coast Highway, music blasting and windows down, it is the sight of the sea meeting the shore, the towering mountains and the endless sky, that convinces me this is the most inspiring place on earth. Every. Single. Time.

Welcome to the new iteration, and the world, of C.

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DANIELA VILLEGAS Wind ring in yellow gold, $5,000, danielavillegas.com.

ROSIE HUNTINGTON-WHITELEY. Photography by ZOEY GROSSMAN. Creative & Fashion Direction by ALISON EDMOND. Hair by SYLVIA WHEELER at Forward Artists using Bumble and Bumble. Makeup by KATE LEE at The Wall Group using Chanel. Manicure by MILLIE MACHADO.

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KATE LEE AMANDA DEMME Multidisciplinary artist and creative director Amanda Demme photographed Maye Musk for “‘I Model My Age,’” p.112. Demme has curated and programmed events for Vogue, Prada and Coachella, and her photography has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine and others. MY C SPOTS • The owner of Gilly Flowers & Events in Silver Lake has an amazing eye • I adore Johnny and Gareth at Cafe Stella on Sunset Boulevard • Noodle Stories in Beverly Grove for womenswear

As a makeup artist for Chanel, Kate Lee has worked with Keira Knightley, Dakota Johnson and other famous faces, as well as faithful client and cover star Rosie Huntington-Whiteley in “Desert Rosie,” p.120.

Lee is based in Los Angeles. MY C SPOTS • Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena to walk in the sculpture garden • Highland Park’s Shorthand is my Virgo letter-writing dream • Maestro in Pasadena, where the mixologist will tell you all about rare Mezcals

ELIZABETH DAY Author, journalist and broadcaster Elizabeth Day talked motherhood and moguldom with cover star Rosie Huntington-Whiteley in “Desert Rosie.” Day, who grew up in Northern Ireland, is a contributing editor for Harper’s Bazaar U.K. and creator of the podcast “How to Fail with Elizabeth Day.” MY C SPOTS • Yoga at at the Raven in Silver Lake • The eight-seat Sushi Bar in an Encino mall • Sunset’s Shamrock Social Club, where I had a tattoo done

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FRANÇOIS DISCHINGER Having focused his lens on creative greats like Diane von Furstenberg and Jeffrey Deitch, as well as homes for Wallpaper Magazine and Architectural Digest, New York-based photographer François Dischinger turned his gaze to Rosetta Getty’s Hollywood villa for “Fashion House,” p.132, and Mike Amiri in “Rock On,” p.142.

MY C SPOTS • I take a cab to Beachwood Canyon and walk back down to Sunset Boulevard • Chateau Marmont to touch the Helmut Newton plaque • Book Soup — I’d fly to L.A. just to go there

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Native New Yorker and photographer Douglas Friedman takes readers on a tour of Marfa, Texas, in “Marvelous Marfa,” p.149. The lensman has shot for Architectural Digest, Elle Décor and Harper’s Bazaar.

His first cookbook, about New American restaurant Capri, will be published by Phaidon in 2020. MY C SPOTS • March in San Francisco for the best home and kitchen goods • Burrito King in Echo Park for late-night burritos • Beverly Hot Springs in Koreatown — the best Korean spa game in town

Covering fashion, culture and business, Christina Binkley has contributed to The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and now C for her profile on Maye Musk, “‘I Model My Age.’” The award-winning, L.A.-based journalist is also the author of New York Times best-seller Winner Takes All. MY C SPOTS • Yuca’s, a tiny stand on Hillhurst Avenue in Los Feliz, for tacos • The Trails Cafe in Griffith Park for lavender shortbread • Point Dume in Malibu, where Captain Nelson discovered Jeannie’s bottle in I Dream of Jeannie

JAMES TIMMINS C’s chief creative officer, James Timmins, is an Englishman by way of Milan and New York who now calls Los Angeles home. Prior to C, Timmins, who’s also a musician, contributed his talents and keen eye to leading ad agencies Laird + Partners and Buero New York. MY C SPOTS • Oil Can Harry’s in Studio City for line dancing • “The Snake” in the Santa Monica Mountains for a damn good motorcycle ride • Dreamscape VR experience at Westfield Century City

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DAVID HOCHMAN Based in Los Angeles with his chocolatier wife and son, David Hochman is a storyteller whose portfolio includes a TEDx Talk on overcoming fear and pieces for The New York Times and Forbes. In this issue he profiles fashion designer Mike Amiri in “Rock On.” MY C SPOTS • Totoraku in L.A. has the best yakiniku-style grilled meats outside of Japan • Paseo Miramar Trail near Pacific Palisades is the hike of all hikes • Palm Springs’ Melvyn’s Ingleside Inn, where I’d never say no to a Gibson cocktail

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WORDS BY ERICKA FRANKLIN AND MARIE LOOK. FRIEDMAN: DOUGLAS FRIEDMAN. BINKLEY: DOUG PIBURN. TIMMINS: DAVID ROEMER. HOCHMAN: RUTH KENNISON.

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At The Huntington’s Botanical Gardens, Rodarte returned to its West Coast roots with a couture-esque floral fantasy that plants California firmly on the fashion map

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Annie Lebo From above: ANNIE LEIBOVITZ. The photographer shot ANDY WARHOL and DIANA VREELAND lunching in New York City in 1976 for Rolling Stone magazine. “I thought it was charming, that idea of taking out your compact and powdering yourself,” Leibovitz says.

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PORTRAIT: ANNIE LEIBOVITZ, © ANNIE LEIBOVITZ. ANDY WARHOL AND DIANA VREELAND, NEW YORK CITY, 1976: ANNIE LEIBOVITZ, © ANNIE LEIBOVITZ, FROM ANNIE LEIBOVITZ: ARCHIVE PROJECT #1.

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lthough Annie Leibovitz’s work practically screams “New York,” with its polished, intimate, insider-y feel, the photographer’s roots run deep in California. She has two sisters in the Bay Area, takes her kids surfing in Bolinas over spring break, honed her craft attending the San Francisco Art Institute and worked at Rolling Stone in San Francisco before Jann Wenner moved the publication to Manhattan in 1977.

“I get emotional talking about that,” says Leibovitz of her formative California stint. In preparation for “Annie Leibovitz. The Early Years, 1970-1983: Archive Project No. 1,” she pored over every single contact sheet, looked through everything she’d done as a student and a rookie. What emerged “was a river of film,” she says, with a trace of reminiscence in her voice, “that flows through places and grids on the walls of the gallery. It goes on and on and on.” The exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in Los Angeles even includes photographs from a 2017 LUMA Foundation show and covers more than 5,000 works in chronological and thematic order. “It’s the voyage of a young girl photographer going out and loving taking photographs,” she says.

It’s also a record of one of American history’s pivotal eras, both culturally and politically. While Leibovitz passed through her 20s and into her 30s, photographing 142 covers for Rolling Stone, she was having “extraordinary adventures”: capturing Allen Ginsberg accepting a joint, road tripping with gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, and shadowing Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane while she held court from her bed (shots of the latter two are in the exhibit). Meanwhile, the country was roiling. Vietnam, Nixon, The Rolling Stones’ American Tour 1969, Apollo 17. Leibovitz found herself at the epicenter of much of it. “This work is about being there, the moment and stuff is happening in front of you, and you are not making it up,” she says.

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In 1983 Leibovitz moved to Vanity Fair, where she developed a different reputation, that of a portraitist, working closely with legendary editor Tina Brown. “I would have been the last person I thought would have become a portrait photographer,” Leibovitz says. “But suddenly you had an appointment with them [the subjects] and they were like, ‘What do you want to do?’ There was definitely more theater.”

Her celebrity portraits often exhibit a duality of thought and a talent for inciting conversation: A 15-year-old Miley Cyrus wrapped in a bed sheet; Demi Moore seven months pregnant, naked, cradling her bump; Whoopi Goldberg submerged in a bath of milk.

And she continues to iterate. Her book A Photographer’s Life: 1990-2005 featured celebrities and personal photos intermixed, including images of herself and her late companion, writer Susan Sontag.

The tome Pilgrimage zeros in on historic places and objects left behind, such as Emily Dickinson’s white dress or Virginia Woolf’s writing desk.

Today, far better known for her polished portraits than those early years of raw photojournalism, Leibovitz still enjoys the exercise of looking back at how she honed her skills, taught to her by designer Bea Feitler. “That’s how you learn,” Leibovitz says. “I revisited what it was like to be obsessed and be insane and go out there and work really, really hard.” She adds: “It’s not so different from when I take a picture now.”

“Annie Leibovitz. The Early Years 1970-1983: Archive Project No. 1,” through April 14, Hauser & Wirth, 901 E. Third St., L.A., 213-943-1620; hauserwirth.com. •

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“This work is about the moment, and stuff is happening in front of you.

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CHRIS STEIN AND DEBORAH HARRY (BLONDIE), INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, 1979: ANNIE LEIBOVITZ, © ANNIE LEIBOVITZ, FROM ANNIE LEIBOVITZ: ARCHIVE PROJECT #1.

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by CHARLOTTE WALES. Modern Weekly China Chloë Sevigny cover, 2015, by CHARLIE ENGMAN. The Lady Vanishes, 2015, by NOÉ SANDAS (with photography

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“Maädchen herz,” 2018, by MAURITS SILLEM from Numero Berlin.

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Anti-Glossy STATE OF THE ART What is the state of contemporary fashion photography? Antiglossy: Fashion Photography Now (Rizzoli New York, $50) offers more than a snapshot. In it, Parisbased author and polymath Patrick Remy, whose skills include writing, curating, consulting and lecturing, has selected 20 photographers who stand out from the crowd as they shock, inspire and seduce with their highly original editorials. Expect shots by today’s most avant-garde and in-demand lenspeople, such as Juergen Teller and Glen Luchford, alongside the sensual images of Charlotte Wales and the engaging double exposures of Maurits Sillem. In an age of social media ubiquity, in which everyone is a photographer — and some even make a career out of calling their phone snaps “fashion” — this book is a timely reminder of what true talent looks like. A.B. KNOTTY BY NATURE String is the thing for bags this spring

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Serbian-born conceptual artist ANA PRVAČKI culminates her two-year residency at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco with a series of sitespecific short videos (in partnership with Google Arts & Culture) in a show she’s dubbed “Detour.”

The offbeat films can be accessed on an app and triggered at various spots throughout the museum.

“I’m very interested in how our bodies are with these phones,” she says.

“How do we ameliorate the side effects of staring at a screen or being static?

And how many artworks have been destroyed in an attempt to take the perfect selfie?” Two sculptures, including a small marble tombstone entitled Memorial to the Common Bee (with the volunteer flower committee placing blooms at the grave every Monday), round out the exhibition. Through May 5. De Young Museum, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr., S.F., 415-750-3600; famsf.org. E.K.C.

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“Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power” — a traveling exhibition that began at London’s Tate Modern and is coming to The Broad — examines the contributions made by more than 60 black artists as they joined the struggle for social justice and equal rights for African Americans. The show’s paintings, prints and sculptures incite shock and stir emotions. Bold Black Panther posters sit alongside reportage photography of the civil rights marches and ensuing race riots, while arresting paintings include: Barbara JonesHogu’s Unite (First State), with its agitpropstyle graphics and salutes; The Flag Is Bleeding, Faith Ringgold’s blood-spattered canvas of characters looking through the American flag; and Los Angeles artist Betye Saar’s Sambo’s Banjo, in which she suspends a Sambo puppet, a black skeleton and the image of a lynched man inside a banjo case.

“Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963-1983,” March 23 to Sept. 1. 221 S. Grand Ave., L.A., 213-232-6200; thebroad.org. A.B.

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Los Angeles-based film marketer-turned-fashion designer Irene Roth and Cristiano Minchio (formerly CEO of Yeezy and Vivienne Westwood America) are behind the progressive new unisex fashion line Artica-Arbox, a streetwearinspired, ready-to-wear offering that elevates architectural, athletic silhouettes to new levels of luxury. Launched during Paris Fashion Week last September and named for Roth’s two young sons’ self-anointed superhero monikers, the line’s debut Italian-made collection remixes ideas of masculinity and femininity with transparent knit basketball shorts, nylon maxi dresses and sheer track pants — each piece created with the intention that it be customized by the wearer.

Saks Fifth Avenue, 9600 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, 310-275-4211; articaarbox.com. M.G.

ARTICA-ARBOX (from left): yellow dress, $930, blue jacket, $735, and white top, $205, shorts, price upon request, and pants, $1,140.

FASHIONABLY ON TIME New and updated boutiques LILLY PULITZER The space at Fashion Island in Newport Beach offers brightly colored resort and beach wear for women and girls. lillypulitzer.com.

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M BY MAGGIE RIZER Supermodel Maggie Rizer has partnered with MarisCollective to open her own store at City Center Bishop Ranch. mbymaggie.com.

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Today Guzman’s business, Sherbinskis, produces six highly sought-after strains, including the Gelato series, which earned a cult following when it debuted eight years ago. His products are sold in select dispensaries in California, marketed with short films (in one, an insouciant model smokes a joint, ties her hair in a bun and makes mochi in slow motion) and supplemented by a line of merchandise, including $160 embroidered hoodies and a $5,000 “Presidential Ashtray” made of 24-karat gold and diamonds.

Lyrically name-checked by Young Dolph, Calvin Harris and Migos, Guzman’s brand equity is sky-high.

When it comes to creating hype around his products, Guzman is taking cues from the likes of Supreme. (He recently secured a location at 345 Fairfax Avenue, a stone’s throw from the streetwear label’s L.A. base.) So you can expect some big-name collaborations. “Someone I really look up to is Virgil Abloh,” Guzman says. “That’s the model I present to a brand: I’m the Virgil, you’re the Louis Vuitton.” But above hype, he prizes quality. “If something is the best in the world, it should be treated as such. I wanted to

create these items that felt good to the hand, looked good to the eye and could be seen in a woman’s purse — that a sophisticated person would want to be associated with,” he says.

In the wake of California’s legalization of recreational cannabis 12 months ago, the state’s “green rush” saw sales in California total around $2.5 billion in 2018, and sales are expected to net $20 billion in the United States by 2021. VCs, hedge funds, e-commerce platforms and branding gurus are fighting to get in on the game. For growers and retailers now, the biggest opportunity lies in the underserved luxury client. While the middle of the market can have legally sold weed delivered to their houses via a few taps on an app, higher-end clients can and will pay to have an elevated experience.

“Positioning Beboe in a lifestyle vein has been key to our success,” says Kiana Anvaripour, vice president of marketing at Beboe (the brand’s co-founders are Clement Kwan, a Net-a-Porter alum, and celebrity tattoo artist Scott Campbell). Since its launch in 2017, Beboe has offered “dinner party cannabis” packaged in sleek rose-gold-colored vape pens and elegant pastille edibles. Now, the brand is partnering with Barneys New York on the retailer’s new cannabis shop-in-shop, The High End (slated for a late March opening in the Beverly Hills outpost). Exclusive to the store: a silver limited-edition Beboe vape pen ($80).

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While interest in the industry’s potential soars, the landscape remains something of a wild west, without widely held industry standards. But out of the haze, several platforms have emerged with curated experiences and higher-quality offerings. L.A.-based Fleur Marché, launched in January, is the brainchild of Ashley Lewis and Meredith Schroeder, two former Goop staffers who oversaw buying for fashion and beauty. They painstakingly tested and scrutinized everything on their list of about 60 products — such as Populum full-spectrum hemp CBD oil ($59/250 mg) and Life Elements CBD pain sticks ($68) — in addition to four elegant Fleur Marché starter kits ($125-$180). “The goal is to help women get access to an ingredient that could change their lives,” Schroeder explains.

Women, who made up 85 percent of luxury market consumers in 2015, are the focus of many cannabis brands’ efforts. “We’re not the only brand going after this demographic,” says Anna Duckworth, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Miss Grass, an e-commerce platform geared toward accessibility and education.

“The people that have purchasing power and influence are an incredibly powerful tool in shifting the narrative around the plant.” The site, which just celebrated its first anniversary, features CBD products and accessories ranging from chic Asche Industries scent-blocking leather pouchettes ($135) to sleek Miwak Junior ceramic pipes ($85). “This is not a different experience to when women shop for clothes or look for beauty products,” says Kate Miller, Miss Grass’ co-founder and CEO. “Women are drawn to things that are premium — everything from packaging to how [brands are] sourcing ingredients and delivering to our doors.”

These new businesses know their clientele expects a standard of customer service set by market leaders Net-a-Porter and Farfetch. “We’re eliminating the stoner vibe,” explains Nurit Raphael, owner and founder of Ona Life. Serving the “Range Rover soccer moms” of Marin County and San Francisco’s priciest neighborhoods, such as Pacific Heights, Ona Life is one of only a handful of legal delivery services in California. Customers can text or instant message, concierge-style, to have premium cannabis products delivered within the hour — for example, Bloom Farms freshly cut flowers ($50) and Francis Ford Coppola’s Limited Edition: Grower Series ($110), which comes with three Humboldt Brothers cannabis strains, a pipe and rolling papers. “I thought it would be great to have this high-end concierge service that will meet you anywhere,” explains Raphael. Ona Life delivers products in sleek white pouches via a fleet of white Toyota Priuses to please their environmentally conscious clients. Raphael also hosts cannabis, yoga and farm-to-table retreats in partnership with Geyser Peak Ranch ($250-$500 for a day trip).

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Alternatively, you can hire The Herbal Chef (from $200 a person) to create a dinner or buffet brunch; or pop into The Ritz-Carlton, Los Angeles for a CBD soak and pedicure ($120) or CBD massage (from $245). You might adorn an after-dinner table with a regal box of Lord Jones gummies (from $45), offer a handcrafted wooden box of Lowell Herb Co.’s tasting flight (from $100) to your host in lieu of wine, and in place of a nightcap, unwind with a Dosist Sleep pen ($100).

In fashion, too, the appetite has never been greater.

Take The Elder Statesman’s 2018 “High End” sellout capsule collection with tastemaking site Highsnobiety, which included limited-edition intarsia-knit cashmere sweaters emblazoned with leaves, and accompanied the launch of the documentary High End: The Regalization of Cannabis. In the film, Pamela Hadfield, cofounder of HelloMD, a digital healthcare platform for the cannabis industry, assesses the high-end market. “The luxury customer not only wants to feel good internally, but externally, and these products personify that,” she says. “Maybe 50 percent of the brands we see today won’t exist tomorrow, [but] that luxury brand — what that luxury consumer demands from those luxury brands — will survive.” X

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San Francisco company THIRDLOVE used data from its online FitFinder quiz to design styles in diverse nude shades and sizes. Now the best-selling T-shirt silhouette styles are available in the entire range of fits, recently expanded to include 78 sizes. thirdlove.com L.A.-based e-tailer 11 HONORÉ debuted two years ago and immediately began combating the industry’s longstanding sizeism with luxe plus-size garments (sizes 10 through 20+).

Just-in designers for Spring/Summer ’19 include Roland Mouret, Cushnie and Derek Lam. 11honore.com Online boutique REBAG, which specializes in buying and selling luxury handbags, has two new brick-and-mortars: in Beverly Hills and on Melrose Place. Try a purse for up to six months before exchanging it for 70 percent store credit. rebag.com. A.J.B.

A FERRAGAMO REVAMP The newly renovated South Coast Plaza outpost of Salvatore Ferragamo has reopened with a fresh look. Art deco-style lamps light the space, with plush pink velvet and boucle-upholstered furnishings adorning the women’s department (red leather for the men’s). Exclusive to the store: a pair of designs by women’s creative director Paul Andrew — a quilted silk messenger handbag and strappy heel. 3333 Bristol St., Costa Mesa, 714-979-7654; ferragamo.com. M.L. SALVATORE FERRAGAMO silk quilted messenger bag, $1,890.

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TOM FORD jacket, $5,690, top, $2,590, skirt, $2,050, and bag, $1,990. TOD’S blazer, $5,045, and pants, $4,475, BALLY top, $430, KENDALL CONRAD rings, from $170, and VINCE slides, $195. BRUNELLO CUCINELLI vest, $11,995, and TRINA TURK earrings, $68.

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BUILDING BLOCK Building Block deconstructs the very concept of the handbag using the highest principles of industrial design and construction: L.A.-based sisters Nancy and Kimberly Wu are former designers for Honda and Nike respectively. Since 2011, they have worked to “clear away conventional standards of luxury by magnifying what is essential and editing out excess.”

They have disposed of bulk, metal hardware, decoration and even traditional handles, and distilled staples such as the bucket bag to their primary functional shapes.

What remains are clean-lined architectural works of pure restraint. The Puck is a simple, perfect circle; the aerodynamic Wave Tote is a rectangle with a curved halfmoon opening. Wood often replaces metal: a version of their Wristlet cylinder has a string of large wooden balls for a strap. Bags, belt packs and iPhone slings are handmade in smooth and pebbled leather in black, kombu green, vegan tan and the occasional burst of sun yellow at their Chinatown studio-store. 970 N. Broadway, Unit 104, Los Angeles, 323-803-3420; building--block.com.

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Clockwise from top: BUILDING BLOCK’s minimalist accessories include the Drum bag (foreground), $550. AHLEM Bonne Nouvelle sunglasses, $440 each. A vignette inside LCD’s L.A. flagship featuring Not Impressed’s Tulipa bag, $345.

LCD’s flagship boutique is all gorgeous shades of orange, from the terra-cotta jute flooring to the corduroy sofa to the bronze velvet curtains in the fitting room. Geraldine Chung, an ex-Atlantic Records executive who founded LCD in 2012 after moving back home from New York, is on a self-confessed mission to foster the (oft-female) rising stars of independent fashion. One hundred have already passed through her doors, which first opened in Venice. Chung’s unique point of view is also informed by a childhood in Asia and teen years spent in SoCal’s tomboy surf and street culture. Eighties skater style is resurrected

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Quirky, cutting-edge labels Priscavera, Henrik Vibskov and Colovos are fit for the music scene. More lady-like sensibilities appear in Rejina Pyo, Charlotte Chesnais and Silver Lake’s Creatures of Comfort.

LCD also has an exclusive partnership with Californian leather goods brand VereVerto and was the retail partner for L.A. nonprofit Sexy Beast for Planned Parenthood’s T-shirts, designed by Virgil Abloh x Jenny Holzer. Row DTLA, 1318 E. Seventh St., Ste. 126, L.A., 213-372-5525; 1121 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Ste. 2, Venice, 424-280-4132; shoplcd.co.

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GLADYS TAMEZ MILLINERY in Downtown L.A. ECKHAUS LATTA wool bomber jacket, $695.

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ECKHAUS LATTA Rhode Island School of Design graduate Mike Eckhaus and California native Zoe Latta make gender-fluid clothes that redefine sexuality — men wear their dresses. It seems fitting that their small, art-filled brick-and-mortar store, opened in June 2017, is located among the galleries of Arlington Heights, near The Underground Museum: after only seven years, Eckhaus Latta has been featured at the Hammer Museum, Venice Biennale, MOCA and MoMA PS1. Eckhaus Latta remains an underground label at heart, even if their recent work is also their most commercial, ranging from boxy silhouettes to slinky knits and rayon. And sexuality remains a strong presence: they have made limited-edition sex kits for Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard; Latta’s father makes their IUD-shaped earrings; and a recent campaign featured real couples having sex.

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AHLEM L.A.-based Parisian designer Ahlem Manai-Platt, formerly a photojournalist and buyer for Acne and Miu Miu, has a good eye and an interesting philosophy.

Embracing the ethos of the Bauhaus movement, which resisted soulless manufacturing in the early 20th century, Ahlem’s eponymous luxury eyewear similarly aims to counter today’s mass-produced spectacles.

Each frame is handcrafted by nine separate artisans and takes inspiration from the timeless architecture and spirit of her home city. Founded in 2014, Ahlem’s brand was a runner up in the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund prize in 2017. 1121 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice, 424-2684236; ahlemeyewear.com.

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GLADYS TAMEZ It matters little that generous-spirited milliner Gladys Tamez is quasi-official hatter to Lady Gaga — she created the singer’s $1 million Swarovski-embellished showstopper for the 2016 Victoria’s Secret show — Beyoncé and Johnny Depp. Here, the haute salon experience, which harks back to 1950s Paris couture, is delivered with the warmth and sincerity of a Mexican family gathering. Tamez and her congenial partner, Oliver, count among their extended family graffiti artist RETNA — his hieroglyphics emblazon their art-adorned atelier warehouse — and furniture designer Sami Hayek, brother of Salma, who handcarved the studio mirror.

The daughter of a Lancôme model, Tamez studied at Florence’s Lorenzo de Medici and Scuola di Moda before training under milliner Louise King. Her masterpieces are full of references to art and historical fashion and her technical skill infused with personality and wit. A 1920s Optima mould inspired her architectural Optimo line, and her Zodiac range incorporates astrological symbols ingeniously hidden in the crown. A warehouse wall of antique hat moulds, hat luggage and charming craftsmen working on vintage machines makes this the hospitable holy grail for hat aficionados. 2347 E. Eighth St., L.A., 310-694-0668; gladystamez.com.

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A confident, eclectic cook, she loves mixing up the flavors she encountered in places like China, Japan and Vietnam with the avant-garde techniques she mastered in ink. and Spago’s kitchens. “It was important to me that each dish could stand on its own and make an impression,” she says. That includes her mapo tofu lasagna layered with tofu cream and pork ragu spiked with Sichuan peppercorns and prickly ash.

Lin’s deft design nous is writ large in every detail, from the emerald green velvet banquettes to the handcarved wooden spoons and exquisite ceramics.

“For my style of cooking, presentation is very important,” she says. Philadelphia’s Felt + Fat made the cream stoneware tray set with a quirky teapot, creamer and teacup. Meanwhile, Lin turned to two L.A. companies for some unique serving plates: Match Stoneware for a roast duck platter based on her own design and Ren Vois for subtly marbled clay ceviche bowls.

With Oregon’s Union Wine Co. Lin developed a riesling-based wine cooler with notes of lychee, black tea and lemongrass. And with master tea blender Tony Tellin of Steven Smith Teamaker in Portland, Ore., she finetuned a quartet of bespoke teas sourced from across Asia.

Taking time off to taste-test was a canny move for Lin. Now she’s back at the stoves, parlaying her travels into Los Angeles’ hottest reservation to book right now. 923 E. Third St., Ste. 109, L.A., 213-626-8888; nightshadela.com. •

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From left: HERMÈS beach towel, design by Filipe Jardim, $600. ETRO Spring/Summer 2019. PAUL SMITH photo print ties, $125 each.

So inspired by California was Veronica Etro for her Spring/Summer ’19 collection she pulled in two pro surfers to walk her show: Victoria Vergara (left) and ( Maribel Koucke wore neoprene swimwear in the brand’s preferred paisley patterns. She wasn’t the only designer with a sunny outlook this season. Paul Smith accessories are emblazoned with palm trees; Hermès commissioned illustrator Filipe Jardim to create a surfboard towel; the collections of Michael Kors saw surf motifs on hoodies; and wetsuits made a splash at Sportmax. A.B.

OUT OF AFRICA Growing up in Monrovia, Liberia, Summerland-based designer Taki Gold experienced the atrocities of civil war firsthand. The resilience he witnessed shaped his worldview and ultimately inspired his fashion line, Girl God. To handcraft his range of adorned army jackets, Gold purchases the war-worn uniforms from veterans, then spends a week embellishing each piece. “Girl God’s mission is to transform pain and change the negative energy of war into triumph through high-end fashion,” he says. Gold customizes the coats with materials and designs that have symbolic meanings: black Swarovski crystals are reminders of the stark realities of diamond mining, while glittering streaks represent a person’s inner light.

New for spring? Expanded accessories (he already offers bags and boots) and furniture. girlgodglobal.com. M.G.

HOT SEATS New restaurants to reserve LA CALENDA A stone’s throw from The French Laundry, Thomas Keller’s tacqueria spotlights regional Mexican cuisine. lacalendamex.com.

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But in the last decade, amid the rise of all things handmade, a new kind of collectible glass has captivated collectors: an interpretation that prizes the conceptual as much as the craft.

Embracing organic, unfussy forms, New York design star Jeff Zimmerman (whose fans include ubercollectors Allison and Warren Kanders as well as actor Robert Downey Jr.) has been at the forefront of this push. It makes sense, given his gallery R & Company is founded by former glassblowers Evan Synderman and Zesty Meyers. “In recent years there has been an increasing global interest from museum curators and big collectors,” says Meyers, who has worked closely with the likes of The Mint Museum and Cooper Hewitt. “The demand is continuing to rise. With technology constantly evolving, we have seen how there is [a desire] to go back to craft and reinterpret traditional materials.”

L.A.-based glass artist Anthony Bianco is part of the art form’s newest class and a former assistant to Zimmerman: “His vision took precedence over the nitpickiness of technique, which was like gasoline on the fire for me,” says the Chicago native of his mentor.

While a student at California College of the Arts, Bianco also apprenticed at the Murano, Italy, studio of Silvano Signoretto, one of the most technically renowned maestros in the industry. “From early on,

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you try to work with the most talented people who will have you,” he says.

In late 2013, armed with a classical education in the notoriously temperamental pursuit and an affinity for bold, Italian futurist-inspired geometry and sinuous art moderneindebted compositions, Bianco struck out on his own with Bianco Light & Space, a studio art practice originally based in Brooklyn, N.Y., and anchored by functional, illuminated sculpture.

His first impulse was to design a line of lighting that endeavored to “showcase glass as something that isn’t this pre-considered idea of what a glass shape should look like,” he says.

Translation: It wasn’t just about globes in various colors. His Tessellation series of chandeliers and table and floor lamps drew inspiration from infinite patterns, and incorporated mold-blown trapezoidal glass cones, architectural brass and bespoke hardware. A breakthrough moment came in 2016, when design arbiter Sight Unseen named Bianco to its American Design Hot List.

Suddenly it was Bianco who had a queue of people clamoring to work with him: Collaborations include a line of handblown glass earrings and textured vessels with the cult jewelry brand

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“Vision took precedence over technique, which was gasoline on the fire for me”

Gemologist-turned-artist MARK PAVLOVITS creates colorless, non-leaded, irregular glasses, vases and lighting that exude a modern, minimalist aesthetic. markpavlovits.com.

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Now based in West Adams — having decamped with his wife, fashion and textile designer Alicia Reina, from the Berkshires in June 2017 — Bianco is prepping for a solo exhibition of vessels, lighting and vanity mirrors at the new West Adams location of contemporary furniture and design gallery Not So General, opening March 14.

The Future Perfect founder David Alhadeff, who represents Bianco, is another influential champion of the medium’s latest, covetable update.

“Artists like Bianco help push this work toward new audiences,” he says.

“There is something familiar-seeming and postmodern and yet entirely fresh about his approach.” But Alhadeff is quick to clarify he doesn’t see it as part of a trend: “The references might seem young, but the work does not look or feel young to me. It isn’t timely. It’s timeless.” biancolightspace.com. X

Known for her otherworldly pieces, including iridescent bowls, KATHERINE GRAY will appear this spring in Blown Away, a new Netflix series about glassblowing. hellergallery.com.

Citing the American Brilliant Cut Glass of the late 19th century as inspiration, ETHAN STERN creates brightly colored, densely carved vessels intended to “hold light” (not things). ethanstern.com.

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There’s no shortage of Japanese restaurants in California, from strip-mall sushi joints to bustling izakayas. But the recent wave of openings in Los Angeles and San Francisco are definitely worth a visit. Take Echo Park’s Japanese-influenced Insta-ready sandwich shop Konbi (1463 Sunset Blvd., L.A., 213-278-0007; konbila .com). Every bold-faced name in food media, from The New York Times California restaurant critic Tejal Rao to Esquire food editor Jeff Gordinier, has made the pilgrimage to sample its crisp pork katsu and egg salad on Bub and Grandma’s milk bread. (Actors Elijah Wood and Eric Andre have also been spotted at the 10-seat counter.) Across town at Blackship (8512 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood, 310-734-7553; blackshipla.com), former Hinoki & the Bird sous chef Keiichi Kurobe offers a Japanese-Italian mashup with a California sensibility: Think carbonara ramen with Kurobuta chashu and egg yolk served in a modern dining room with a kooky Far East-meets-nautical theme. At Asahiru (1325 Ninth Ave., S.F., 415-731-2658) in the Inner Sunset, partners Alex Tao and head chef Hiroaki Makiyama serve Japanese-inflected spins on American brunch classics, such as soft-shell crab Benedict with yuzu-spiked hollandaise and shiso leaf. And in Japantown, the team behind popular omakase sushi restaurant Hinata has opened Sasa (22 Peace Plaza, Ste. 530, S.F., 415-683-9674; sasasf.com), offering a Japanese brunch by day and a kaiseki menu that goes beyond sushi (with dishes like tea-braised octopus) by night. K.P.

UPGRADE LABS AT THE BEVERLY HILTON has opened a biohacking facility with 20-plus technologies to improve mental and physical performance, reduce inflammation, rejuvenate skin and detox the body. upgradelabs.com.

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Qualley (left) wears MICHAEL KORS COLLECTION dress, $440, briefs, $690, head scarf, $295, and sandals, $795. OSCAR DE LA RENTA earrings, $390. SYLVIE CORBELIN ring, $9,900.

Fox wears MICHAEL KORS COLLECTION jacket, $2,250, top, $675, and pants, $1,395. SYLVIE CORBELIN earrings, $15,500. JIMMY CHOO clutch, $4,995. ALEXANDRE BIRMAN sandals, $595.

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Qualley (left) wears OSCAR DE LA RENTA gown, $13,290. JULIA CLANCEY turban, $450. Fox wears CAROLINA HERRERA gown, $8,990.

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Fox (left) wears 4 MONCLER SIMONE ROCHA jacket, $1,990, dress, $2,700, and slippers, $1,265. JENNIFER BEHR turban, $425. Qualley wears 4 MONCLER SIMONE ROCHA jacket, $1,350, top, $1,210, skirt, $1,415, and sunglasses, price upon request. DAVID YURMAN earrings, price upon request. SOPHIA WEBSTER slides, $225.

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Fox (left) wears MARY KATRANTZOU dress, price upon request. PIERS ATKINSON hat, $650. GIUSEPPE ZANOTTI sandals, $1,595. Qualley wears GIORGIO ARMANI top, $8,695, and pants, $6,095. JULIA CLANCEY turban, $350. GIUSEPPE ZANOTTI sandals, $850.

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Fox (left) wears VALENTINO dress, $3,690.

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Qualley (left) wears DOLCE & GABBANA dress, price upon request, and sandals, $5,395. HOUSE OF EMMANUELE earrings, $420. Fox wears DICE KAYEK dress, $1,275, and shoes, price upon request. HOUSE OF EMMANUELE earrings, $750.

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sk Rainsford Qualley who her musical influences are and she’ll swiftly cite an eclectic collection of artists — from the sublime to the lesser known — including Kate Bush, Prince, The Spice Girls, Little Dragon and Abra. Yet the 28-year-old model and singer-songwriter, who performs under her first name, has an entirely original sound that blends soul, electro funk and indie pop. “I spent a long time writing and figuring out the exact sound that I wanted,” she says. The retrotinged aesthetic of both her music videos and hyper-feminine personal style has a touch of the occult. She performs spells and ceremonies and might sport a single icy contact lens. “By nature I am very shy, so using creative outlets has always been my most comfortable form of self-expression.”

Following the success of her 2018 EP, Emotional Support Animal, and singles like “Too Close,” Qualley plans to debut her first full-length album this summer.

She grew up far from the spotlight, in Montana and later North Carolina, and her mother, ’90s icon Andie MacDowell, nurtured her penchant for music through piano, violin and ballet lessons (she still dances to this day); her father, modelturned-contractor Paul Qualley, taught her to play the guitar. “I’m really thankful to be part of an arty family,” says Qualley, who moved to L.A. a few years ago after spells in New York.

She shares her home in Echo Park with her younger sister and best friend, actor Margaret Qualley of The Leftovers, and the two collaborate on everything from composing text messages to recording music. “There are a lot of artists in the area and it feels very vibrant and alive,” she says of her adopted L.A. neighborhood. She scours vintage shops such as SquaresVille, dances at The Sweat Spot and soaks up the city’s “storybook houses, ghost stories and witchcraft.” Plus, MacDowell recently got a place in nearby Highland Park, so Qualley — a devoted vegan and animal fosterer — and her mother can regularly take their rescues for hikes in Elysian Park. “I love that in L.A., anything you feel like doing, you can find somewhere to do it.”

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shape the American canon as we know it, the 29-year-old — who goes by her middle name, Fox — is quick to assure that her upbringing was normal, “except for English class.” Her mother is actor Mariel Hemingway of Manhattan fame, and her model-actor older sister, Dree Hemingway, has walked the runway for Givenchy, Chanel, Calvin Klein and others. “My sister and I are practically inseparable at this point,” Fox says. “We speak for hours every day, like we can’t let each other go.”

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Fox is an artist — and model — whose pen and pencil sketches often reflect her own femme-meets-grunge sense of style (think fresh-faced and tattooed, vintage work wear and hoop earrings). “I’ve been drawing cowboys lately so I probably have started dressing like a cowboy. Who knows?”

Raised between Idaho and California, where she was born, Fox now lives in L.A.’s Mount Washington neighborhood, as an illustrator of photo-realist works whose subjects range from flora and fauna to skeletons and skinheads. She’s been tapped to use this talent by major fashion houses including Gucci, who asked her to interpret its new Gucci Bloom fragrance for a campaign, and as a runway model by the likes of Miu Miu and Marc Jacobs. “I feel like I’m in a transitional stage where I’m trying to discover something more within myself and less trying to do work for other people,” Fox says. Spoken like a true artist. X ANUSH J. BENLIYAN

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Dressed in simple dark slacks and a stark black sweater with a minimalist ruffle at the wrist, Maye is bare-faced and striking, with her signature shock of white-gray hair. She is still getting accustomed to her celebrity. She’s a CoverGirl, a post more often awarded to women one-third her age who don’t have 11 grandchildren. She has represented global luxury brands, including Tiffany & Co. and Moncler. Just last year, she celebrated her milestone birthday, wearing a sparkling Elie Saab dress loaned by the Paris-based Lebanese couturier. These events mark her emergence as America’s favorite septuagenarian supermodel — more than a half century into her fashion career. She is, I might add, a fully fledged influencer with 229,000 followers on Instagram.

She is fearless in many ways, perhaps most visibly with fashion — her thick silver coiffure inspires hair stylists to tease it skyward in avant-garde geometry, but her wardrobe stylist and publicist note that on her own, she struggles to distinguish colors and needs instruction to properly tie bows. Maye calls herself a “science nerd” because she holds two master’s degrees, in nutritional science and dietetics, and insists she would rather discuss the periodic table of elements and a healthy diet — her own is sans kale because she doesn’t like bitter tastes — than the latest fashion trend. She is, however, eager to share her recipe for 15-bean soup. In short, she is a mass of

contradictions and thoroughly good company.

CoverGirl signed her two years ago after IMG submitted her, and Maye was startled to be recognized on the street. “Are you Elon Musk’s mother?” she says people would exclaim.

Photographers ignored her first awkward turns on the red carpet, when she was learning to step-and-repeat, so her publicist trailed her, shouting, “It’s Maye Musk!” Photographers responded, “The Tesla mom?” She was breaking the gray ceiling, but without her own identity. Fortune noted her ascent in September 2017: “Elon Musk’s Mom, 69, Is the Newest CoverGirl.” She had some work to do.

Today, with her A-list portfolio growing, Musk is more often recognized for herself.

Harper’s Bazaar threw the 70th birthday party in New York with editor Glenda Bailey, Diane von Furstenberg and Christie Brinkley in attendance. Maye has appeared in ads for Virgin America, Target and Macy’s. For the Moncler campaign she was entirely without makeup, bangs swept up to reveal her forehead, its landscape of wrinkles be damned because she’s had no “work” done.

“No one has asked me to have it done. I model my age,” Maye says with a shrug. “Sometimes they retouch me and I’m wrinkle-free.” IMG super agent Ivan Bart, who guided the careers of Kate Moss and Gisele Bündchen, attests that Maye is comfortable in her own skin. “There’s no apologies from her,” he says.

She’s shocked to learn Barack Obama is one of her 35,000 followers on Twitter. She doesn’t follow him back. She follows only 22 people, but she is the consummate Twitter mom. She promotes all her kids’ enterprises, including Kimbal’s March 20 national Plant-A-Seed Day. She has been chastising Tesla critics, engaging with some directly, and posting updates on the ratio of positive-to-negative press coverage.

“Last week, negative @Tesla headlines were 82 vs 23 positive,” she posted in January.

When Elon recently tweeted admiration for a gigantic metallic moose sculpture, Maye hit reply: “Your grandmother was born in Moose Jaw, Canada. What goes around ...”

She suggests, in fact, that there is a correlation between the qualities required of survival in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, and the myriad ventures associated with the name Musk. There is an affinity for constant work, a knack for self-promotion and an explorer’s arm’s-length relationship with fear.

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When the twins were 2, their father removed the wings from his propeller plane and brought it and his young family onto a cargo ship headed for South Africa, which he had read about. Subsequently, while Maye’s pre-teen and teenage friends frolicked at the beach, her family tooled about the desert, with three weeks’ worth of food, water and fuel, on an annual vacation to Botswana in search of the lost city of the Kalahari.

Maye worked the phones at her father’s clinic and developed X-rays. By 15, she was working as a model in places such as department store tea rooms, and doing printer work. She eventually married Errol Musk, an engineer. They had three children, the eldest of which inherited his father’s engineering genes. “Elon was my honeymoon baby,” Maye says. The couple divorced after nine years.

Elon blazed the family trail back to North America at 17, when he asked his mother to restore her Canadian citizenship. “He said, ‘I want to get to the United States and Canada is closest,’” she recalls. When he landed in Canada, he phoned home to ask what he should do next. “I told him to go to the YMCA,” she says. She describes her child-rearing philosophy as, “You can do what you want but you have to be responsible.” In 30 years Elon’s achievements include becoming the founder, CEO and lead designer of SpaceX; co-founder, CEO and product architect of electric car pioneer Tesla; co-founder and CEO of Neuralink; founder of The Boring Company; and co-founder of PayPal, which was sold for $1.5 billion in 2002. He has a net worth of about $22 billion, is listed by Forbes as the 54th richest person in the world in its 2018 billionaires list and is thought to be the inspiration behind the big-screen incarnation of Tony Stark, aka Iron Man. Maye soon visited Elon in Toronto, telling 15-year-old Tosca she hoped one day to study for a Ph.D. in nutritional science there. Tosca wanted to go immediately. “I was pretty determined that we would move,” Tosca says.

While her mother was away, Tosca listed the house with a real estate agent and sold the

household furnishings to a family that had recently moved from Tehran — “except for a few items I knew my mother would want to keep.”

Maye says, “I got back to Johannesburg and I found Tosca had sold my house, my furniture and my car.”

Tosca, who is a film producer and director focused on romance films, such as 2018’s The Matchmaker’s Playbook, concedes, “I sold my mother’s crystal for pennies. But we couldn’t take it with us. We didn’t have much money.

She was shocked at first, but it was ultimately an excellent decision.”

Maye adds, “I wasn’t upset. It made sense, because it was for me to do a Ph.D. in Toronto.”

In their first Toronto apartment, Maye and Tosca shared the bedroom and Elon slept on the couch for three months until Maye found a larger, rent-controlled space. (Kimbal stayed with Errol in South Africa to finish school.)

Maye often slung five jobs at once: she was a home-based dietetic and nutrition consultant, a wellness speaker and media spokesperson, a university research officer, a model and the director of a modeling school. The kids did their homework of their own accord — no helicoptering — and behaved, because there were often clients in the house. “I was working very hard and found helping with homework to be boring. It probably encouraged independence.”

Maye’s doctoral research on kidney dialysis didn’t pan out. Her professors awarded her another master’s degree instead. Her penchant for hard work and rigorous study extended to her romantic life. She spoke English, Afrikaans and French, but when she dated a fellow from Germany, she enrolled in classes at the GoetheInstitut. She studied five hours a day and listened to German children’s tapes in the car.

She earned a grade of 99 percent on the final exam, missing one question about the common German greeting — wie geht’s — an error she regrets to this day.

This is the lens through which Maye sees Elon’s efforts to meet his companies’ aggressive goals (which include sending humans to Mars and making it possible for people to travel underground faster than they do on planes). She bristles at media mentions that paint her son’s behavior as extreme. “He’s not crazy at all. Why do people keep writing stories that make him sound crazy?” she asks.

Working to exhaustion and sleeping on the floor in Tesla’s factory? “That’s normal!” she says, her icy blue eyes flashing. X

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t seems entirely fitting that Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, despite being British, should choose to make California her home. At 31, she looks like the Neoplatonic ideal of a bronzed surf goddess: blond hair tucked neatly into a roll-neck jumper, Pacificblue eyes and lips set at exactly the right level of natural pout. She’s the kind of woman one believes exists only in music videos or the collective imagination. So it would have been odd, quite frankly, if someone who looked so Los Angeles hadn’t ended up living there too.

But for a model and businesswoman (more on that later), the attraction to her adopted home runs more than skin deep. “I feel I get so much energy from living in L.A.,” she says when we meet on one of her regular trips to London to catch up with family and friends.

“There’s a positive energy and atmosphere that I feel really inspired by. … In America, there’s that ‘dream big’ attitude. I think that is exciting. To be ambitious there and to be successful is celebrated in a different way.”

She loves British humor and the English tendency toward self-deprecation but at the

same time finds her homeland’s obsession with background and upbringing can occasionally be restrictive. In the States, by contrast: “I just find less limitations, perhaps: doors open, people see your vision more. It’s not so much about where you went to school or who your connections are.”

She moved to Los Angeles eight years ago for her own supermodel career. HuntingtonWhiteley began modeling for Victoria’s Secret in 2006 (she was named an Angel in 2010) and has countless magazine covers and fashion campaigns like Burberry and Balmain to her name. The move also made sense because her fiancé, actor Jason Statham, often needs to be in L.A. for work. Having starred in such films as Snatch, Spy and The Transporter film franchise, Statham is, like HuntingtonWhiteley, a homespun British export. The couple has a son, Jack, who will be 2 in June.

Is Jack speaking with an American accent yet? She laughs. “He’s saying words [but] it’s baby voice. So there’s no accent detected.

And I should imagine he’ll have an English accent probably up until he goes to school,

just because he’s mainly around English people. … But who knows?”

Motherhood has been a turning point for Huntington-Whiteley. She was always aware, as a model, that her lifespan in the industry would be predicated on her youth. As she’s grown older, she has quietly transformed herself into a multimillionaire businesswoman. There was a brief foray into acting when she appeared in two blockbusters — Mad Max: Fury Road and Transformers: Dark of the Moon — but it’s not something she wants to pursue, and she quite freely claims she was “terrible.”

Business has always been much more her thing. Forbes listed her as the fifth highestpaid model in 2016 with a net worth of $9 million and partnerships with Ugg and Paige. Her eponymous Rosie for Autograph lingerie range designed for U.K. firm Marks and Spencer has moved millions of items since its inception in 2012. When she goes back to the U.K., many women come up to her in the street wanting to flash their underwear. In fact, I’m wearing one of

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her bras when we meet. The last time we met, one year ago, I was also wearing a Rosie for Autograph bra and volunteered the information. Huntington-Whiteley responded with the practiced delight of someone who hears that a lot. So although it crosses my mind to tell her again, I worry it might seem like overkill. The truth is: I just really like her bras.

Her newest venture is Rose Inc., a beauty website packed full of products for sale and expertise gleaned from a 16-year career spent working with the world’s top hairstylists, makeup artists and photographers such as Rankin and Mario Testino. It launched in May 2018 and “feels a little bit like my whole kind of career led me to that point,” HuntingtonWhiteley says. “I had been wanting to build something for some time, for several years.

When I was on social media and I would talk about a beauty product or I would talk about makeup or I would do a tutorial, I was seeing the positive response it was getting and that there was a big appetite from my followers who wanted to know more. … And so I thought … how do I build on that?

“When I got pregnant I was like, ‘OK, well I’m obviously not going to get on a plane every two weeks, this is the right time. Now I’m going to be in one place, I can really build this out.’ So we basically built the site and put my small but mighty team together. … I was quite meticulous about it. … So far, I’ve been really blown away by the positive response.”

What’s she like as a boss — does she ever get angry? “Not yet,” Huntington-Whiteley says. “I have never shouted at anyone that has ever worked with me. Ever.” Does she shout at Statham? “Yeah, of course,” she says, grinning.

Her love affair with beauty has been lifelong. Growing up in the English countryside of Devon, HuntingtonWhiteley remembers being mesmerized while watching her mother, Fiona, an aerobics instructor, getting ready to go out.

“My mum was quite strict so I wasn’t often allowed in her bedroom. I would sneak in quietly and just sit on the edge of the bed and she’d say, ‘If you stay in here, I don’t want to hear you.’ And I would sit on the bed and just watch her go from being my mum to being ready to go out in the evenings.

“Every year my parents had a ball that they would go to and she would wear the same dress which she got from TK Maxx [the

European arm of TJ Maxx]. I remember it so well. It was the first time I’d ever seen what, to me, was like an Oscar-worthy, red carpet dress! It was an aubergine color and it had a train and I just remember thinking, ‘Oh my god, she’s just so glamorous.’ And so that was my introduction to makeup. And then she’d give me her old products every now and then if she had a few things she was throwing out.”

Sweetly, Jack now does the same thing when his mother is getting ready to go out. “He gets really excited,” she says, proudly showing me photos of him on her phone. “Last night, I went to an awards ceremony and I had a really amazing Givenchy dress on and it was all feathered. And I came upstairs to say goodbye to him and he shrieked in delight and then he wanted to touch the feathers, and he’d just eaten dinner so I was trying to not get his sticky hands all over the dress.”

The beauty industry has changed a lot since Huntington-Whiteley started out as a model some 16 years ago. What does she think about the rising number of young women getting fillers and Botox? “I don’t think it’s great for young girls,” she says carefully. “I don’t. It’s not what I would want for my daughter at a really young age.

“I think you have to make really informed choices, that would be my advice. Any time you are seeking to change something semipermanently or permanently about yourself, whether it’s a tattoo or a nose job or a bunch of filler in your face, I just think you have to make smart decisions and be informed and make educated choices for yourself and that way you know you’ve done your due diligence.

“My face has changed so much since I was in my teenage years. I lost weight, you lose your braces, you learn how to wear your makeup, you learn where to shade your makeup, the right hair color for you, the right eyebrow shape, all those things make such a huge difference. … A lot of women grow into themselves. I certainly feel like I grew into myself as I got older.”

As for her own aging process, HuntingtonWhiteley is embracing the self-knowledge that comes with it. In 10 years time, she’d like to be expanding both her business and her family. “More children!” she says gleefully.

“My home life couldn’t be more fulfilling, but [I’d like it to be] just fuller, you know? I think I perhaps see us being back in the U.K. in 10 years time maybe. Who knows?”

Marriage might be part of that future,

but neither she nor Statham are in any rush. Rumors that they were due to tie the knot on New Year’s Eve are dismissed by Huntington-Whiteley as “fake news.”

When she’s not working, HuntingtonWhiteley’s favorite weekend in California would involve renting a vintage car and driving up to Big Sur. She and Statham like to eat at Madeo in Beverly Hills for their date nights (“I find the food fantastic”) or maybe E. Baldi or Sunset Tower (“really wonderful for a romantic dinner”).

Otherwise, she says, she’s “quite happy just to stay at home, get in the pool, have some friends over, have a barbecue in the garden or go to Malibu, go to Taverna Tony [in the Malibu Country Mart], have a nice lunch, then walk on the beach. I mean, L.A. is just all about being in and out of your house.”

And what a house it is. In 2015, Huntington-Whiteley and Statham bought a stunning 5,600-square-foot mansion in Beverly Hills for $12.9 million from L.A. fashion designer Jenni Kayne. The house has a midcentury feel, five bedrooms, eight bathrooms, a Koi pool, olive trees and open fireplaces. The family spends a lot of time there, and Huntington-Whiteley likes to entertain, hosting her friends on Sundays for a traditional British roast.

“I do have my Sunday roasts,” she says.

“Yeah. I had a Sunday roast today and it is Tuesday. That’s how much I love my roast dinners.”

Improbable as it seems, judging by Huntington-Whiteley’s lean and athletic physique, when I ask after her guilty pleasure, she replies almost before I’ve finished the question: “Food. Just any type of food. I just love to eat. It’s a big problem for me. Anything fried usually. Pasta. Pizzas. Cakes. Sweet stuff.”

Luckily, she also enjoys working out and regularly goes to dance fitness classes at Body By Simone and has recently started weight training. “It’s amazing. I feel like it really shifted that last nudge of baby weight for me. Just toned everything up.

“I do love to do cardio. With weight training, for a minute I was like, ‘What the hell? I’m not even sweating!’ And now after doing it for nearly three months, I feel so strong and toned and really, it’s quite amazing how it just changes your body.”

Not that there’s anything about Rosie Huntington-Whiteley that really needs changing. X

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Rosetta designed the outdoor furniture on the Moroccan terrace; the lights are from a Moroccan souk . “I’ve loved Morocco ever since visiting in my early 20s,” she says.

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osetta Getty has vision. In her mind, she can imagine how something should look, or be, and then she sets about creating it. This works for conceiving the next collection of her minimally elegant fashion line worn by Margot Robbie, Tracee Ellis Ross, Dakota Johnson and Claire Foy, or designing the outdoor furniture for her Moroccan terrace, or summoning the energy in her home. “I love a house full of noise, music, laughter and the hustle bustle of kids running around,” she says, which is the norm for this rambling but well-ordered house in the Hollywood foothills Rosetta shares with her actor-DJ-writer-producer-director husband, Balthazar aka “Balt,” and their four children, now ages 18, 16, 15 and 11.

They were attracted to the views, the proximity to all areas of L.A. and the grand scale of the rooms in this Spanishstyle residence. Plus there “was already a recording studio downstairs for my husband,” Rosetta says. Is their home a typical house filled with teenagers? Yes. And no. Rosetta says her son told her he wants the family to be “regular” and wishes she were more like Julie Bowen’s character on Modern Family. And on the very rainy day we sit down with Rosetta, her kids come and go, telling their mom “I love you” while she organizes their Uber pickups. A chef is in the copper-clad kitchen making a full-on Thanksgiving dinner (“Turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes are some of my kids’ favorite foods, so we serve it every now and then,” Rosetta says) so the family can all eat together, as they do most nights in the dining room. “It’s grounding for me as well as for the children,” she says.

Homemade, midweek, chef-prepared dinners are pretty routine here.

But this life she’s created — and this century-old house with a Gothic-meetsMediterranean vibe that overlooks Sunset Boulevard — is anything but regular. “I don’t quite know what ‘regular’ means,” Rosetta says, adding: “No matter how hard I try, I could never be Julie Bowen’s character [Claire Dunphy]. It’s just not possible.” After all, their last name is Getty, and there’s a villa and a museum not far from here with the same moniker. Theirs is a magical universe filled with visiting friends, chef-prepared dinner parties with a background of an

eclectic mix of reggae (Bob Marley is a fave), hip-hop and pop spun by the man of the house himself. Entertaining is woven into the fabric of their daily life, from Taco Tuesdays for the kids to hosting Soul Food Sundays with rice and beans, fried chicken and collard greens for guests including artists, writers and their families. Often the party continues into the recording studio on the ground level where music is played all night, once Rosetta takes the kids to bed upstairs.

The setting for this Royal Tenenbaumsesque world is a 1917 house that fuses authentic Spanish colonial with Rosetta’s modern minimalism. Rosetta says, “I’m really a believer in less is more. If something doesn’t feel right, take it away — you’ll eventually find the awe. Same for fashion.”

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architect Patricia Urquiola. A sparkling vintage crystal chandelier and a Hayden Dunham glass, chain and ash sculpture waltz alongside an Olympia Scarry Himalayan salt Licks sculpture in the ballroom. A wandering ficus vine is a welcome guest in the dining room, making an entrance via holes drilled into the molding creating a pergola of sorts over the rosewood dining table.

In the library, a Mark Hagen concrete sculpture screen is cast from cardboard Amazon boxes. Photos by Wolfgang Tillmans and Torbjørn Rødland hang on the shelves, which are lined with coffeetable books. The titles alone reflect the multifarious interests of Rosetta and Balthazar: The Great Cosmic Mother; The New York I Know; Selected Poems by Robert Bly; Noguchi; The New Harvard Dictionary of Music; Hip Hop Files; and The Friendly Guide to the Universe, just to name a few of the thousands. “I’m so into my books. I’ve been collecting them my whole life. When I’m having a moment of, ‘Oh shit, what am I going to put out there next?’ all I have to do

is sit in here for 10 minutes and I’m full of inspiration.”

Rosetta pulls one of her favorites from the shelf, The Twins, a very personal collection of photographs by Balthazar’s mother, Gisela Getty. Rosetta is absorbed by their visual family history. “Just look at his mom’s style, and it was all from thrift stores. His dad — he was a fashion muse, so chic in his anti-chic. Stefano Pilati said this book is fashion history gold.” There are photos of Gisela and her twin sister, Jutta, who recently passed away; there are party scenes with Bob Dylan and candid shots of Sally Kirkland, Robert De Niro and Dennis Hopper at The Roxy in the ’70s. We glimpse a photo of Balt’s one-time babysitter, a young Sean Penn. She concocts a plan to republish this stirring visual memoir, now out of print. Rosetta sees art everywhere and is constantly thinking of how to repurpose and share it.

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Poppies decorate the CASTELLI rosewood dining table, a ficus vine crawls the ceiling and vintage leather chairs rest on a wood parquet floor. Opposite: The Gettys were attracted to the scale of the ballroom, seen here with a white CHARLOTTE PERRIAND day bed, vintage chandelier and sculptures by HAYDEN DUNHAM and OLYMPIA SCARRY. One of the few changes Rosetta made to the house was creating the minimal fireplace mantle.

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minimalism, recently introducing vibrant colors such as tangerine and poppy, and has already achieved global recognition — everyone from Michelle Williams to Lorde has worn the label on the red carpet. The recent presentation of Rosetta Getty Fall/Winter 2019 in New York was a kind of birthday celebration — kind of.

Editors and retailers were invited to an after-party, conceived by Rosetta with the artist Kayode Ojo and installed to resemble a party’s aftermath where empty wine bottles littered the floor and deflated balloons hugged the ceiling. “It was an illusion of a party,” she says.

Rosetta also collaborated with Los Angeles artist Analia Saban at the Retail Lab of the CFDA Cadillac House in New York’s SoHo, where they made select art and fashion pieces and sold them alongside iconic California treasures, such as the infamous peanut brittle made by the Monastery of Angeles Dominican nuns in Hollywood.

Saban had just taken Rosetta to Gemini G.E.L. (Graphic Editions Limited), an artist’s workshop and publisher of limited-edition art prints sited in a Frank Gehry-designed building on Melrose Avenue across from the Sweet Lady Jane bakery. “We’ve driven by it a thousand times and thought, what is that weird building?” She finally got to experience the storied space where second, third and fourth editions are made as well as pieces for artists like Richard Serra. “This definitely needs to be a documentary,” Rosetta says. “Sidney B. Felsen, the cofounder, has been there since 1966, and his picture wall is like everyone and anyone from the art world.”

When recounting experiences like this, Rosetta lights up. She had recently ventured to an experiential “escape room,” since her daughter June has Houdini-ed her way out of just about every single one of its kind in L.A. June brought her mom to a submarine-themed attraction that actually started submerging. Though feeling claustrophobic at times, Rosetta, through sheer imagination, found their way out — and back into the relative normalcy of their BMW SUV, returning to the beauty of her real-life home, nestled in the foothills of the city she loves and the enchanting world she has created. •

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stores are, however, on the cards). In 2016, it introduced womenswear, which represents 25 percent of the business.

“Amiri has become one of our top 20 brands globally,” says Fiona Firth, buying director for online retailer Mr Porter. “There is something truly authentic about both Mike Amiri and his brand. It’s special and relatable and inherits a lot of what’s so right about everyday ready-towear. It also transfers well to different spirits of style — rock ’n’ roll, hip-hop, an L.A. way of dress. There’s a practical magic there that a lot of men relate to.”

Amiri is a bit groggy today from his latest Paris show. The shearling jackets, cashmere coats and strappy clutches bedazzled with Tiffany-set Swarovski crystals launching later in 2019 pivot the brand away from Saint Laurent (to which it is often compared) in the direction of haute menswear stalwarts such as Berluti.

Vogue Runway’s Luke Leitch dubbed Amiri’s outing “a contemporary fusion of ingredients you could pitch as Bruno Cucinelli-meets-John Varvatos by way of old-school Roberto Cavalli.”

Before Paris, Amiri was back and forth to Tuscany, trading on L.A. street sense for tailoring tips from the undisputed masters of the form. In this booming California fashion moment, which relies heavily on affordable luxury price points, Amiri is that rare standout pushing to deepen the skill set and truly elevate but on a global scale.

ike Amiri got his first fake ID at age 13. “I think I might have maybe convinced a guy in Hollywood to give it to me somehow,” the fashion designer behind Los Angeles’ most sought-after brand you might not yet have heard of says, wary even now to divulge his old tricks. Amiri’s parents, immigrants from Iran and highly motivated for success, had a home in the center of Hollywood but moved to an apartment in Beverly Hills so Mike could attend Beverly Hills High School.

But it was the ID that was the entree to the grittier, glitterier side of the Strip.

These were the midnight glory days of The Roxy, Whiskey a Go Go, and a dimly lit, black-walled new club called The Viper Room. Inside, you might spot Slash from Guns N’ Roses hanging at a booth with Lenny Kravitz or Johnny Depp, and perhaps Amiri’s high school classmate Angelina Jolie taking a smoke break. But Amiri was just as satisfied soaking up the atmosphere from the curb. “You’d see some guy waiting in line, wearing flannel around his waist over a T-shirt,” the 42-year-old says. “And his girlfriend looking super beautiful in leopard prints and a short skirt, and everybody looking completely carefree and cool, and it all kind of stuck with me, you know?” he says at his hangar-like studio in Downtown L.A. The designer’s inspiration is not limited to his formative years in the ’90s. The Jim

Mike Amiri commissions a guy in the desert to “Clint Eastwood” Featurehis - Amiri garments Morrison swagger, biker boots, grunge plaids, skater layers and ripped everything from L.A.’s Riot House era are to him what Coco Chanel might be to a Parisian fashion house.

Only now his fantasia is bound by serious production demands, international fashion calendars and the perpetual stresses inherent to pulling off what no other independent luxury clothing brand from California has quite managed before — coming from seemingly out of nowhere to shine among the most buzzed about collections in the world.

In less than five years, Amiri has gone from a one-man shop selling roughed-up denim and leather from the basement of a Hollywood Thai restaurant to blink-andthey’re-gone global stock lists at Barneys New York, Maxfield and beyond.

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“I lived in Florence for four months, going factory to factory for more than just inspiration ... to really work,” he says. “I learned new ways of making things, and I was also showing them certain shortcuts on stitching and dying and airbrushing that they found fascinating. It was this combination of tight Italian hand-tailoring and pure L.A. recklessness, and who knows where that will lead us?”

No doubt it will be someplace visually arresting and good for a few zillion likes (interestingly, the Amiri brand has 174K Instagram followers of its slick product and campaign shots, while Mike’s personal account in which he posts snapshots of his celebrity friends has over 300K).

Amiri normally resides in the Valley with his wife and their three young children, which “forces me to stay normal and go to Saturday school basketball games and not constantly obsess over finishing various collections,” he says. But asked how he could improve as a husband and manabout-the-casa, Amiri laughs and says, “Do you have enough space on that recorder?”

We are in his upstairs thinking chamber at the 30,000-square-foot, white-onwhite-on-shimmering-concrete complex that houses his fashion studio, design showroom, open-space offices and (mostly because he can) indoor basketball court.

The office dress code appears to divide the staff: half look like rock stars, the rest like lab techs. (Amiri painstakingly sources the finest cashmere, denim and other fabrics from across the world before they are assembled in Los Angeles). On the industrial side, cutters and pattern makers in atelier coats oversee the finishing details of the collections that have drawn the attention of Amiri superfans like Future, Meek Mill, Michael B. Jordan, Courtney Love, Allen Iverson, Odell Beckham Jr., J. Balvin and Kirk Hammett.

I knew only a couple of details about Amiri the man before stepping inside his sleek dream factory: He wears great big hats pulled low over dark sunglasses, even inside. And he believes good cashmere just looks way cooler if you take it out to Joshua Tree and shoot holes through it with

a shotgun. It came as a pleasant surprise then to find him neither hidden under a wide brim nor locked and loaded. Amiri still occasionally commissions a guy in the desert to “Clint Eastwood” his garments, but laying aside the hat and specs turns out to be part of an overall effort to be more comfortable with himself, more authentic, more vulnerable.

“As an outsider all my life and more of an observer, it gave me some small protection being in the shadows, being in the background, but I saw a couple years ago that a wall was standing between me and greater success,” he says. Without the Lizard King getup, it’s easy to appreciate that Amiri is quite handsome: tall with a neat beard, thick combed-back black hair and dark probing eyes. He’s clad in all black with black slim-fit jeans flecked with polished silvertone hardware. If this is “living the brand,” it’s a life exuding confidence and conspicuous craft.

Age is making that easier. As the middle child with a rebellious older brother and younger brother taking all the attention,

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Opposite: Jackson and Charlbi wear AMIRI denim jackets, $1,190 each, and jeans, $690 each.

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Amiri wore a sort of invisibility cloak growing up that let him frolic unseen — mostly. “I got arrested for graffiti in high school and spent a day at the Beverly Hills Police Department, which isn’t much different than the Beverly Hills Hotel,” he says. “I was more scared of my dad than anything else.” In high school, while other kids played sports, Amiri, a skater and BMXer, was scouring racks at vintage stores, “deconstructing blazers and reassembling motorcycle jackets,” as he puts it. He tried law, earning a degree from Loyola Law School; and for a few years, he gave the music business a go, songwriting, producing and performing with artists in Korea, where he is said to have co-founded

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the Korean hip-hop genre. But it was in the nearby Fashion District that he found his career calling. The luxe one-off jackets and suits he learned to rip, patch and embellish with stylists between torts classes ended up as stage and red-carpet pieces for artists like Usher and Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler. “My parents were not happy I didn’t practice law,” he says. “They are happy now that I employ tons of lawyers.”

So who is the elusive muse for the latest collection? “I don’t have a specific muse as much as I think about the most transparent version of me,” he says. “If I just stay in my lane and commit to the guy I am, that connects with people.”

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Friedman and fair founder and artist Michael Phelan of Marfa’s United Artists Ltd. gallery — along with an advisory board that includes artist David Salle and

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gallerist Melissa Bent — have selected 10 emerging and established galleries to display works in the remote town’s Saint George Hall April 4-7. The international art show is slated to double the population of the art hub, which is already home to works by Donald Judd and the famed Prada Marfa sculpture by Elmgreen and Dragset, just off Highway 90. Here are Friedman’s must-visits when he’s in town.

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I first arrived on a Monday in the middle of July six years ago. The streets were empty, the galleries closed, and it was raining. After I left, I couldn’t stop thinking about this desert town or watching Giant, the epic 1956 James Dean film shot outside the West Texas city limits. I immediately returned with friends who were renovating a house there and spent an afternoon falling in love with the town, whose population remains slightly fewer than 2,000 residents. Trailer parks, cowboys, tumbleweeds, rattlesnakes — the energy here is invigorating. A day later I became a landowner.

Weeks begin slowly in Marfa — most everything is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays — but it all comes alive each weekend. I love to cook, but the food here

is so good it’s hard to want to. Each morning I head to Do Your Thing (doyourthing.us) for pour-over coffee in a former lumberyard that a couple friends of mine took over. They’re meticulous about the coffee, the type of milk and the temperature of everything, and they do incredible sourdough with local honey and nut butter. Lifting at Ironheart Bodybuilding and Fitness (facebook.com/ironheartgym.tx), a proper gym in an old Masonic temple, sets me up for the day.

Bad Hombres (facebook.com/boyz2menmarfa) has a Don Ho burger (complete with pineapple) for lunch, or I’ll get falafel at Adam Bork and Krista Steinhauer’s roving truck, Food Shark (facebook.com/foodsharkmarfa).

Stars (instagram.com/stars.marfa), a literal window in a wall, fries up homemade doughnuts and chicken, and if you’re lucky enough to find the elusive Weinertown, they serve amazing hot dogs. For dinner it’s foie gras and oysters, and Fritos with caviar at philanthropist Virginia Lebermann’s restaurant Capri, adjacent to her impeccable 1950s-era renovated Thunderbird Hotel (thunderbirdmarfa.com). My drink is a rocks-and-salt margarita — I’m a bit of a purist.

Wandering through town, you get a sense of just how isolated you are. Time slows down here as wild boars, bobcats and antelope roam free in the dusty Chihuahuan desert where Donald Judd founded his 340-acre Chinati Foundation (chinati.org) devoted to minimalist masterworks. There are lots of subtleties to the town. There are dozens of art galleries, including Ballroom Marfa (ballroommarfa.org) and the Judd Foundation (juddfoundation.org) studios. You don’t want to rush in Marfa. Give in to it and see what’s revealed. marfainvitational.com. •

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Clockwise from top left: DONALD JUDD’s 15 untitled works in concrete, 1980-1984, at THE CHINATI FOUNDATION. CAPRI’s head bartender, JERRAM ROJO. The Shane Delaney cocktail (white tequila shaken with pickled okra juice) at Capri. 100 untitled works in mill aluminum, 1982-86, by Judd. The town water tower.

Opposite, from top: Local lunch stop BAD HOMBRES. One of artist DAN FLAVIN’s perception-bending largescale fluorescent light works, untitled (Marfa project), 1996, installed at Judd’s Chinati Foundation.

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MI CASA ES TU KASIIYA Having just debuted in the northwestern Costa Rican province of Guanacaste, Kasiiya Papagayo was conceived to have zero impact on its 123 hillside acres. The resort is solar-powered, its water is drawn from a well, and all vehicles are electric. But don’t think luxury was compromised in an effort to remain eco-friendly. Built on timber platforms, the five tented suites are so private each has its own terrace (complete with outdoor shower) overlooking the Pacific. Content to watch whales breach and dolphins bob below, you might never leave your private hammock. However, there’s plenty to do, including chilling in the beach cabanas and practicing yoga at the fitness center set among the wild vegetation. Unwind with a spa treatment infused with indigenous herbs and local muds, followed by a meal at Kasiiya’s South American fusion restaurant, helmed by chef Guillermo Rosner.

Rooms from $560/night. kasiiya.com. ANDREW BARKER

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From top: The Library at KASIIYA PAPAGAYO, where guests can visit with the property’s guides or enjoy dinner and drinks.

The resort’s Sunset Lounge platform affords brilliant views of the Costa Rican coast.

The lobby at MANSION ON SUTTER .

THE REST IS HISTORY For a stay steeped in history, the MANSION ON SUTTER in San Francisco is a 10-room property that celebrates its Victorianera beginnings. With the help of local designer Timothy Quillen, the former residence, now owned by the Rosenson family, is home to original Minton tiling, a grand main staircase, spacious, antique-filled rooms, and bathrooms with marble from Spain and Italy. The 1881 restaurant, named for the year the mansion was constructed, serves tempting dishes like a 28-day-aged wagyu rib-eye, and a speakeasystyle bar will open early April. Our favorite amenity? All guests receive a complimentary bottle of Coquelicot Organic Estate Vineyards wine from the owners’ Los Olivos winery.

Rooms from $595/night. 1409 Sutter St., S.F., 415-2132746; mansiononsutter.com.

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CARRIED AWAY To celebrate the Frieze art fair’s Los Angeles debut earlier this year, artist and native Angeleno Alex Israel teamed up with Rimowa to reimagine the LVMH luggage label’s Original aluminum case as one of his signature sunset-inspired ombre canvases. The limited edition — in stores this summer — is available in two different pink-and-blue gradients and comes with an exclusive set of stickers depicting iconic local landmarks and Israel’s artworks. rimowa.com. ANUSH J. BENLIYAN ALEX ISRAEL x RIMOWA suitcases, $2,800 each.

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Welcome to Conrad Bora Bora Nui, a fully renovated, blissful and luxurious resort where relaxation and unparalleled views await you. On a private island, Motu To’opua, guests experience the longest private stretch of soft white sand beach nestled between the soaring backdrop of Mount Otemanu and the mesmerizing lagoon. +689-40-60-33-00; cbbn_res@conradhotels.com.

Come see the talents of 36 of the West Coast’s top interior and landscape designers as they remake the historic 18,000-plussquare-foot mansion known as “Le Petit Trianon” for this year’s San Francisco Decorator Showcase. Benefitting San Francisco University High School Financial Aid Program, the Decorator Showcase runs from April 27 through May 27.

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A dynamic collection of world-renowned designer boutiques and inviting restaurants in Palm Desert, California. If you’re looking for something cool and chic in the desert, you’ll uncover fashion-forward finds and timeless glamour at The Shops on El Paseo. theshopsonelpaseo.com.

Four Seasons Resort Lanai is your gateway to the most exclusive, secluded paradise in Hawaii. Experience 90,000 acres — unspoiled, unhurried and unequalled — with activities managed by Four Seasons. From the rugged uplands to the sanctuary of Hulopoe Bay, the opportunities for adventure, luxury and relaxation are endless. fourseasons.com/lanai.

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From cryotherapy to ayurvedic acupressure, the best facials are more than just a facial

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Before “wellness” was a thing, Terri Lawton integrated vibrational medical techniques into her facials. Using custom combinations of curated products blended with craniosacral work, microcurrent/light therapy and intuitive energy healing, Lawton has bewitched notables like Zoë Kravitz and Demi Moore with her skills. $305/90 min. 931 ½ La Cienega Blvd., L.A., 310-855-0895; terrilawton.com.

Lady Gaga has long been devoted to Kaika, Joomee Song’s signature treatment at Faceworks. This ancient Japanese facial technique lifts and tones using

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The deep tissue massage, combined with botanical-based products and high-tech equipment, delivers radiant results. From $175/50 min. 12012 Wilshire Blvd., #204, L.A., 323-404-0547; faceworksinc.com.

Angela Sinnett, Kelsey Beckman and Abby Presley’s Acupunture Facial Rejuvenation at Magnolia Wellness OC utilizes mien shiang, the ancient Taoist practice of “face reading.” The custom treatment improves muscle tone and increases collagen production using acupuncture, gua sha, cupping, crystals and jade rolling. From $150/75 min. 2900 Bristol St., Building G, Ste. 106, Costa Mesa, 949612-7247; magnoliawellnessoc.com.

A holistic alternative to Botox, the Facelift Massage at Veda wellness center with Julia Lungin depuffs, detoxes, firms and softens lines naturally through lymphatic drainage, myofascial release and ayurvedic acupressure. Fans of the dry facial (sans oil and cream) include Lea Michele and Whitney Port. $145/60 min.

606 Westmount Dr., West Hollywood, 424284-3800; vedaspirit.com.

The Transformational Facial Ceremony at Skin Worship with Emma Goodman incorporates guided meditation, microdermabrasion, enzyme exfoliation,

chanting, LED light therapy, microcurrent, infrared bio-mat, chakra balancing, reiki and more. No wonder Camila Morrone and Kenya Kinski-Jones are devotees. From $375/90 min. 9001 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 206, Beverly Hills; skinworship.com.

“Therapeutic skin coach” Hayley Wood calms the nervous system through mindful touch with lymphatic drainage, scalp and gua sha massage, breath work and guided meditation. Working out of her Beachwood Canyon studio, she uses only endocrine-safe products and holistic facial techniques in combination with her restorative approach. $275/90 min. intro consult and facial. therapeuticskincoach.com.

Nousha Salimi assails the aging process with her unique Reiki Facial, lightly scrubbing, dermaplaning, then applying a luxe customized mask and medical-grade peels. A registered nurse and certified reiki master, Salimi combines Western medicine with Eastern knowledge, cultivating healing energy. $350/60 min.; 436 N. Bedford Dr., Ste. 214, Beverly Hills, 310-740-4389. rejuvenatewithnousha.com.

Julie Civiello Polier’s claim to fame is her Shamanic Facial M, which can include microcurrent, light therapy and gua sha massage. Treatments also feature chakra alignment, crystal therapy, reiki, past-life

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clearings and channeling messages from deceased loved ones (oh my!). $250/60 min. 1913 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica, 310779-5889; julieciviellopolier.com.

Emily Blunt and Alison Brie trust their complexions to Biba de Sousa, who understands the connection between nutrition and skincare, and is trained in reiki and seven types of massage. Her custom facials at Biba Los Angeles include gua sha massage, acupressure, cryotherapy, lymphatic drainage, myofascial release and microcurrent. $300/60 min. 321 S. Beverly Dr., Beverly Hills, 310-770-5831; bibalosangeles.com. 2

ZEN MOMENT: TAYLOR HILL The new global ambassador for Ralph Lauren’s Romance campaign has found her bliss.

Originally introduced to meditation by her boyfriend, Michael Stephen Shank (also featured in the campaign), Westlake Village-based model TAYLOR HILL is now a fan of Calm, a guided meditation app.

Hill’s practice begins after breakfast and a shower. “I wash my face with Very Clear Acne Cleanser by Derma E, and use Advanced Génifique Sensitive Serum

by Lancôme for a fresh start.” Then she dons her favorite cashmere sweatpants by James Perse and a vintage tee.

“If it’s a warm day, I meditate outside in a hanging chair; it feels like I’m floating.

“I really respond to the ‘happiness’ meditations,” she explains. “They help shift my perspective.

Afterward I feel lighter and more focused.

Meditation helps achieve fitness goals, too, giving you an ‘I can do this’ mentality.”

“Meditation has given me tools to calm myself, focus on goals, find my center and use my voice.”

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TOTES AMAZE p.81 Bottega Veneta Signal Blue Intreccio check maxi cabat, $9,500, Bottega Veneta, Beverly Hills, 310-858-6533.

ON OUR COVER Louis Vuitton V-neck sequin net embroidery dress, asymmetric shoulder sweatshirt dress and Janet ankle boots, prices upon request, Louis Vuitton, Beverly Hills, 310-859-0457. Pomellato Nudo black diamond studs, $4,400, and Tango rose gold and diamond ring, $46,800, Pomellato, Beverly Hills, 310-550-5639; pomellato.com.

TABLE OF CONTENTS p.46 On Fox (left): Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello black wool dress with strass crystal fishnet top, price upon request, and black suede Paige platform sandals, $995, Saint Laurent, Beverly Hills, 310-271-5051;ysl.com. David Yurman Chatelaine drop earrings with black onyx, milky quartz over mother-of-pearl and garnet, $1,350, David Yurman, Beverly Hills, 310-888-8618; davidyurman.com.

Jimmy Choo Clemmie black suede clutch bag with Crystal Supernova detailing, $2,995, Jimmy Choo, Beverly Hills, 310-860-9045; jimmychoo.com. On Qualley: Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello blue suede strapless bow dress, $8,900, and gold metallic leather Paige platform sandals, $995, Saint Laurent, Beverly Hills, 310-271-5051; ysl.com. David Yurman Novella three stone bracelet, $8,000, David Yurman, Beverly Hills, 310-888-8618; davidyurman.com. On Tatiana: Prada top, $1,260, pants, $2,200, socks, $170 and hairband, $455, Prada, Beverly Hills, 310-2788661. Moncler 1952 Raffia sandals with stone details, $1,295, Moncler, Beverly Hills, 424-354-4562; moncler.com.

GOOD JEANS p.60 Alexander McQueen indigo distressed denim and antique silver mini jeweled satchel, $1,990, Alexander McQueen, Beverly Hills, 323-782-4983. Stella McCartney tie-dye organic light blue denim skinny jeans, $410, Stella McCartney, Costa Mesa, 657-273-5727. Balenciaga denim BB mules, $950, Balenciaga, Beverly Hills, 310-854-0557. Michael Kors Collection chambray frayed denim medium Bancroft shoulder bag, $1,290, Michael Kors Collection, Beverly Hills, 310-777-8862. Vince utility jacket, $395, Vince, L.A., 323-602-0550; vince.com. American Apparel denim high-waist cuff shorts, $58; americanapparel.com. Furla Corona S drawstring bag in Dalia, $398, Furla, Costa Mesa, 714-617-9629; furla.com. Stella McCartney organic baby blue Annamarie denim dress, $750, similar styles available, Stella McCartney, West Hollywood, 310-273-7051. Chloe Gosselin Delphinium denim triple-band ruched mules, $775; farfetch.com. Coach 1941 denim patchwork pleated plants, $495, Coach, Beverly Hills, 310-247-1309; coach.com. Dior Saddle bag in denim with KaleiDiorscopic pattern, $3,050, Dior, Beverly Hills, 310-859-4700.

Isabel Marant Rholmy dress, $740, Isabel Marant, S.F., 415-781-0113; isabelmarant. com. Christian Louboutin Ordonanette denim and cork platform heels, $845; christianlouboutin.com. Mother The Big Shorty denim jacket in Wicked, $345, Towne by Elysewalker, Pacific Palisades, 310-554-7999; motherdenim.com. Re/ Done x Levi’s ultra-high-rise wide-leg crop jeans, $319; shopredone.com.

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HIDE AND SLEEK p.82 Fendi white leather FF Logo jacket, $6,200, and white leather FF Logo Baguette handbag, $2,690; fendi.com. Hermès thin lambskin mini dress in Bleu Noir, $34,900, and jersey short zipped bodysuit, $1,475, Hermès, Beverly Hills, 310-2786440. Max Mara Jersey one shoulder top, $325, and skirt with asymmetrical ruched details, $695, Max Mara, Beverly Hills, 310-385-9343. Ray-Ban Wayfarer leather sunglasses, $290; ray-ban.com. Kendall Conrad Vaquera cuff in Chocolate napa leather, $215, Kendall Conrad, Santa Monica, 310-463-4718; kendallconraddesign. com. Tom Ford embossed leather peak-lapel jacket, $5,690, slip skirt with lace hem, $2,050, embossed leather halter-neck top, $2,590, and embossed camera bag, $1,990; tomford.com. Tod’s leather blazer, $5,045, and leather pants, $4,475, Tod’s, Beverly Hills, 310-285-0591; tods.com. Bally crochet tank top, $430, Bally, Costa Mesa, 714-557-1914; bally.com. Kendall Conrad Abanico I brass ring, $170, and Abanicao II brass ring, $250, Kendall Conrad, Santa Monica, 310-463-4718; kendallconraddesign. com. Vince Camden sandals, $195; vince.com. Brunello Cucinelli Python Safari vest, $11,995; brunellocuccinelli.com. Trina Turk leather earrings, $68; trinaturk.com.

VILLA OF DREAMS p.100 Fox wears Gucci green cady crêpe wool silk high-neck dress with sculpted shoulders, $5,500, and sunglasses, $1,450, Gucci, Beverly Hills, 310-278-3451; gucci. com. Sylvie Corbelin Melek Ta’us unique ring with citrine, rubies and diamonds, $43,000, Just One Eye, L.A., 323-969-9129. Sophia Webster Joy multicolored sandals, $595; sophiawebster.com. p.101 Qualley wears Gucci Bright Zircon longsleeve, V-neck gown with asymmetric hems and all-over metallic fringes, $12,000, and dark orange nylon tights, $100, Gucci, Beverly Hills, 310-278-3451; gucci.com.

Julia Clancey red sequin turban, $295; juliaclancey.com. Sylvie Corbelin Reflet dans un Oeil d’or unique large pendant with rutile, diamonds, ruby and tourmaline, $60,000, and Ramdam Blanche Unique ring with opal, mix of spessartite and sapphire, and diamonds, $9,900, Just One Eye, L.A., 323-969-9129. Jimmy Choo Raspberry mix glitter pointed-toe pumps, $1,195, Jimmy Choo, Beverly Hills, 310860-9045; jimmychoo.com. p.102 Qualley wears Michael Kors Collection Flamingo and Persimmon Sunflower baby doll dress, $440, Flamingo and Persimmon Sunflower matte jersey brief, $690, Flamingo and Persimmon Sunflower silk twill head scarf, $295, and Flamingo and Lime Daisy Blaire platform sandals, $795, Michael Kors Collection, Beverly Hills, 310-777-8862. Oscar de la Renta hibiscus beaded hoop earrings, $390, Oscar de la Renta, L.A., 323-653-0200. Sylvie Corbelin Ram 2 Ramdam Blanche unique ring with opal, mix of spessartite and sapphires, and diamonds, $9,900, Just One Eye. Fox wears Michael Kors Collection Aqua brocade cropped jacket, $2,250, Aqua brocade cropped tank, $675, and Aqua brocade pants, $1,395, Michael Kors Collection, Beverly Hills, 310-777-8862. Sylvie Corbelin Fujy Yama Collection Brumes Mobile earrings with tourmaline, pink sapphires and diamonds, $15,500, Just One Eye, L.A., 323-969-9129. Oscar de la Renta green Calla Lily ring, $190, Oscar de la Renta, L.A., 323-653-0200. Alexandre Birman rainbow Clarita heels, $595, similar styles available; alexandrebirman. com. Jimmy Choo gold metal star Cage clutch with crystals, $4,995, Jimmy Choo, Beverly Hills, 310-860-9045; jimmychoo.com. p.103 Qualley wears Oscar de la Renta beaded scarlet faille leaf embroidered tulle one-shoulder gown, $13,290, Oscar De La Renta, L.A., 323-653-0200. Julia Clancey Rosa turban, $450; matchesfashion. com. Fox wears Carolina Herrera coral halter gown with horse embellishment, $8,990, Carolina Herrera, Beverly Hills, 310-2882100. Oscar de la Renta hibiscus large Impatiens earrings, $420, Oscar de la Renta, L.A., 323-653-0200. p.104 Fox wears 4 Moncler Simone Rocha jacket in nylon technique, $1,990, dress in printed satin, $2,700, and slippers in eco fur, $1,265; moncler.com. Jennifer Behr Minx turban, $425; jenniferbehr.com. Qualley wears 4 Moncler Simone Rocha jacket in nylon, $1,350, top in tulle with taffeta applications, $1,210, skirt in tulle with taffeta applications, $1,415, and sunglasses in acetate, price upon request; moncler.com.

David Yurman Limited morganite starburst with strawberry quartz drop earrings, price upon request, David Yurman, Beverly Hills, 310-888-8618; davidyurman. com. Sophia Webster Dina rainbow slides, $225, sophiawebster.com. p.105 Fox wears Mary Katrantzou Magdalena dress in poly tulle, bespoke runway piece, price upon request. Piers Atkinson crystal pillbox hat, $650; piersatkinson.com; farfetch.com. Giuseppe Zanotti Rose red satin sandals with flower detail and crystal embellishment, $1,595, Giuseppe Zanotti, Beverly Hills, 310-550-5760; giuseppezanotti.com. Qualley wearing Giorgio Armani top, $8,695, and pants, $6,095, Giorgio Armani, Beverly Hills, 310-271-5555; armani.com. Julia Clancey black and white polka-dot turban, $350; juliaclancey.com. Giuseppe Zanotti Betty black and white printed Raya leather sandals, $850, Giuseppe Zanotti, Beverly Hills, 310-550-5760; giuseppezanotti.com. p.107 Fox wears Valentino floral yellow and mint green dress, $3,690, Valentino, S.F., 415-772-9835. House of Emmanuele Carnivale crystal drop earrings, $395; houseofemmanuele.com. Sylvie Corbelin Poisson Polisson ring with tourmaline, diamonds and chrysocolla on quartz, $22,500, Just One Eye, L.A., 323-969-9129. Qualley wears Valentino floral brown and mint green dress, $4,490, Valentino, Beverly Hills, 310-247-0103. McQ sunglasses, $209; mcq.com. House of Emmanuele heart and star crystal earrings, $445; houseofemmanuele.com. p.108 Qualley wears Dolce & Gabbana white lace dress with ruffles, price upon request, and pink heels with roses $5,395, Dolce & Gabbana, Beverly Hills, 310-888-8701; dolcegabbana.it. House of Emmanuele Carnivale crystal triangle earrings, $420; houseofemmanuele.com. Fox wears Dice Kayek dress, $1,275, and shoes, price upon request; dicekayek.com. House of Emmanuele Tiger earrings, $750; houseofemmanuele.com. p.109 Qualley wears Chanel glitter tweed jumpsuit, price upon request, multi-string necklace, $1,275, and Chanel necklace,

$1,150, Chanel, Beverly Hills, 310-278-5500. Gladys Tamez Alexandria hat in felt velour with a Swarovski veil, $480, Gladys Tamez, L.A., 310-694-0668; gladystamez. com. Sylvie Corbelin Ivouchki ring with agate, diamonds, topaz and emeralds, $7,500, Just One Eye, L.A., 323-969-9129. p.110 Qualley wears Dior strapless dress in Botticelli printed embroidered cotton tulle, knit body with long sleeves in dark taupe, knit jumpsuit with straps in dark taupe, prices upon request, Ballet Floral dove earrings in metal with antique gold finish, white resin pearls, white freshwater pearl and gray crystals, $990, Ballet Floral butterfly earrings in metal with antique gold finish, $990, bracelet, $870, and ring, $990, Dior, Beverly Hills, 310-859-4700.

Jennifer Behr crystal headpiece, price upon request; jenniferbehr.com. Altuzarra Tullio silver Ayers sandals, $795; altuzarra.com. Fox wears Coach oversize Souvenir varsity jacket, $850, and sleeveless shiny Prairie dress, $3,500; coach.com. Dior J’Adior asymmetric earrings in metal with antique gold finish, white resin pearls and white crystals, $370, and My ABCDior Tribale star earring in metal with gold finish and white resin pearls, $220, Dior, Beverly Hills, 310-859-4700. Sylvie Corbelin Pendant Histoire De France aux portrait d’Anne de Bretagne et de Louis XII with brown and white rose-cut diamonds, natural baroque pearl sapphires and emeralds, $29,500, and Précieuse Protection ring with diamonds and rubies, $9,900, Just One Eye, L.A., 323-969-9129. p.111 Fox wears Miu Miu dress, price upon request, necklace, $1,690, and shoes, $950, Miu Miu, Costa Mesa, 714-617-6927; miumiu. com. David Yurman Chatelaine drop earrings with black onyx, milky quartz over mother-of-pearl and garnets, $1,350, David Yurman, Beverly Hills, 310-888-8618; davidyurman.com. Dior ring, $990, Dior, Beverly Hills, 310-859-4700.

I MODEL MY AGE p.113 Vera Wang backless shirt with front pleats and attached neck ruff, $1,050, Vera Wang, Beverly Hills, 323-602-0174. Vram Sine 03 ring in 18-karat white gold with diamonds, price upon request, Vram, L.A., 310-859-9545; vramjewelry.com. p.115 The Row silk dress in Grey Moss, $2,250; neimanmarcus.com. Bulgari B.zero1 earrings in 18-karat white gold with diamonds, $4,800, Bulgari, S.F., 415-399-9141. p.116 Prada coat, $4,390, Prada, Beverly Hills, 310-278-8661. Vram Colony I ring in 18-karat white gold and sterling silver with black diamonds, price upon request, and Echo ring in yellow gold and sterling silver with black diamonds, price upon request; Vram, L.A., 310-278-8661; vramjewelry.com, 310-859-9545.

DESERT ROSIE p.120 Roberto Cavalli metallic knit embroidered dress, $5,295 and biker shorts, $575; robertocavalli.com. Jenny Bird Casita earrings, $115; jenny-bird.com. Vhernier Tourbillon ring in 18-karat white gold with diamonds, $19,850, Vhernier, Beverly Hills, 310-273-2444. Christian Louboutin So Kate multicolor striped glitter pumps, $795, Christian Louboutin, West Hollywood, 310-247-9300. p.121 Balenciaga Acid green viscose draped bustier top, $1,590, Balenciaga, Beverly Hills, 310-854-0557.

Courrèges green sunglasses, $375; courreges.com. Jenny Bird Separate Ways earrings, $80; jenny-bird.com. p.122 Gucci black multicolor long-sleeve high-neck gown, constructed with multiple stripes and rounded mirrors, price upon request, Gucci, Beverly Hills, 310-278-3451; gucci.com. Pomellato Tango 18-karat rose gold and diamond ring, $46,800, Pomellato, Beverly Hills, 310-550-5639; pomellato.com.

Christian Louboutin So Kate silver patent leather pumps, $725; christianlouboutin. com. p.124 Salvatore Ferragamo knit mesh cotton dress with leather fringe detail, $4,300, Salvatore Ferragamo, Beverly Hills, 310-273-9990. Vhernier Verso 18-karat rose gold and jet circle earrings, $9,400, Vhernier, Beverly Hills, 310-273-2444. p.125 Givenchy one-sleeve draped dress, $2,865, similar styles available, Givenchy, Costa Mesa, 714-545-2185. Natasha Morgan visor; natashamorgannyc.com. p.127 Rinaldy Yunardi Space helmet, $495, The Residency, West Hollywood, 323-688-2077. p.128 Versace Capri Breeze leather dress, $3,895, Versace, Beverly Hills, 310-205-3921.

Mykita x Maison Margiela blue frame Mylon sunglasses, $645, Mykita, L.A., 213335-5815. Jennifer Fisher gold Samira hoops, $650; jenniferfisherjewelry.com. p.131 Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello red and white sequined silk Georgette striped dress, $10,500, Saint Laurent, Beverly Hills, 310-271-5051. Vhernier Vague earrings in 18-karat rose gold with diamonds, , $15,400, Vhernier, Beverly Hills, 310-273-2444.

Shopping Guide

p.66 Staud Moreau bag, $375; staud.clothing.com. Maje M Knit STR bag, $295, Maje, Beverly Hills, 310-271-2428. 3.1 Phillip Lim Ines Soft Triangle pouch, $750, 3.1 Phillip Lim, L.A., 213-246-2588. JW Anderson small Bike bag with macrame in natural, $2,240, Barneys New York, Beverly Hills, 310-276-4400; jwanderson.com.

GET SPORTY p.68 Michael Kors Collection gold and lime floral brocade scuba jacket, $2,995, Michael Kors, Beverly Hills, 310-777-8862. Longchamp suede dress, $2,530; longchamp.com. Cynthia Rybakoff earrings, similar styles available, from $68; cynthiarybakoff.com. Etro sweater dress, $3,053, and swim top, $870, Etro, Beverly Hills, 310-248-2855. Escada top and skirt, similar styles available; escada.com.

Jacques Marie Mage Connie cobalt sunglasses, $795; jacquesmariemage.com. Tory Burch Tilda red nylon backpack, $228, Tory Burch, Beverly Hills, 310-274-2394; toryburch.com. Bally cotton jersey top, $350, and cotton jersey shorts, $450, Bally, Costa Mesa, 714-557-1914. Tory Burch Tilda green nylon backpack, $228, Tory Burch, Beverly Hills, 310-274-2394; toryburch.com. Monse striped sandals, runway only. Maje bomber jacket, $340, and Manuel sweater, $225, Maje, Beverly Hills, 310-271-2428; maje.com. Versace striped graphic knit briefs, $775, Versace, Beverly Hills, 310-2053921. Red (V) camera bag, similar styles available, price upon request; redvalentino.com. Sandro pullover sweater, $225, Sandro, Beverly Hills, 310-2810083; sandro-paris.com. Bally crochet pants, $995, Bally, Costa Mesa, 714-557-1914.

Jacques Marie Mage Ray Firefly sunglasses, $495; jacquesmariemage.com.

THE STRIPE IS RIGHT p.72 Emilio Pucci berets, $365 each; emiliopucci.com. Balmain Plexi Nautical B.Box bag in black and white, $2,275, Balmain, L.A., 323-230-6364. Proenza Schouler colorful patchwork small Lunch bag with strap, $1,295; proenzaschouler.com.

Kenzo Ana heeled mules, $430, Opening Ceremony, L.A., 310-652-1120; kenzo. com. Versace Blue Tapestry quilted top-handle Icon bag, $2,625, Versace, Beverly Hills, 310-205-3921; versace.com. Paul Smith Swirl Blanche leather heels, $495, Paul Smith, West Hollywood, 323-951-4800.

LINKED IN p.78 Chanel Fine Jewelry Coco Crush ring in 18-karat yellow gold with diamonds, $9,800, Chanel, Beverly Hills, 310-278-5500. John Hardy Asli classic chain link ring in 18-karat gold, $2,300, John Hardy, Costa Mesa, 714-549-2356.

Marco Bicego Legàmi diamond ring, $3,180; us.marcobicego.com.

FASHION HOUSE p.133 Rosetta Getty Cutout Shoulder gown in Poppy, $1,240; renttherunway. com. Adina Reyter small Dome ring in 14-karat gold, $595; adinareyter.com. p.135 Rosetta Getty Blocked Split top in white and Poppy, $590; neimanmarcus.com. p.141 Rosetta Getty Patch trench coat in navy and black, $2,490, sleeveless Paneled turtleneck in navy, $290; modaoperandi.com. Pull-on wide-leg pant in navy and Poppy, $990, and lace-up cut-out loafer in white, $790; rosettagetty.com.

ROCK ON p.142 Jackson wears Amiri Artist checkered denim biker jacket, $2,990, Beverly Hills Hawaiian SS shirt, $790, Tiger Destruction jeans, $850, and combat bandana boots, $895; amiri.com. June Nineteen Weimar necklace in sterling silver, $930; junenineteen.com. p.143 Amiri wears Amiri 5 pocket leather pant, $2,990, and bandana buckle boot, $1,390. Charlbi wears Amiri silk beaded Lapel blazer, $1,890, asymmetrical Deep V beaded dress, $1,990, Core ombre plaid shirt, $650 and boots, runway only; amiri.com. June Nineteen Curonian Spit pendant necklace in sterling silver, $120; junenineteen.com. p.144 Amiri chain suede boots, $1,690. Amiri Amp box bag, $2,290, and women’s shoulder strap, $695; amiri.com. p.146 Charlbi wears Amiri Eighties trucker jacket, $990, lace leather corset, $950, fold-over waist jeans and boots, runway only. Amiri wears Amiri Harness Bag, $792. Jackson wears Amiri tie-dye cashmere sweater, runway only, Acid denim tennis shorts, $490, and flannel crossbody bag, $2,190; amiri.com. June Nineteen Weimar necklace in sterling silver, $930; junenineteen.com. p.147 Jackson and Charlbi wear Airbrush Hollywood trucker jacket, $1,190, and Stack jeans, $690; amiri.com.

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I Favorite cocktail? The Tower Bar has this great drink, The Tower Smash, it’s a tequila drink with a little jalapeno.

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Favorite market? Bryan’s Grocery in San Francisco’s Laurel Village. I’m biased because it’s my dad’s market.

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Favorite museum? I love the de Young Museum in San Francisco.

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Last show that impressed you? Guy Bourdin [2018] at Milk Studios. Also “Icons of Style” at the Getty Center.

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Favorite vineyard? The Altamura winery in Napa has great red wines.

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Where do you take visiting friends?

The Fountain Coffee Room at The Beverly Hills Hotel. It’s fun and interactive, almost like theater.

PETRA FLANNERY The Bay Area native and Hollywood stylist shares her Golden State favorites

CA Dreaming

What’s your neighborhood?

Coldwater Canyon. It’s pine tree-lined, very cinematic and there’s a great mini track in the park for exercise.

Favorite hike? Mount Tamalpais.

I grew up in Mill Valley. You don’t realize how lush everything is until you go back.

Favorite beach? Paradise Cove is so tucked away and it feels like you could be somewhere else.

Favorite getaway?

Coral Casino Beach and Cabana Club. Even though it’s been around so long, it still feels modern.

Go-to restaurant? Locanda Portofino in Santa Monica for the the penne alla vodka.

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Clockwise from top left: Stylist PETRA FLANNERY. CUTLER AND GROSS sunglasses, $460. A 1975 photo by GUY BOURDIN for Linea Italiana. CORAL CASINO BEACH AND CABANA CLUB. CHANEL mules, $975. The Jolika Collection of New Guinea Art at the DE YOUNG MUSEUM. Juices at the FOUNTAIN COFFEE ROOM at THE BEVERLY HILLS HOTEL. Bruce Hulse and Talisa Soto for British Vogue, 1982, by BRUCE WEBER , as seen in the GETTY CENTER’s 2018 “Icons of Style: A Century of Fashion Photography, 1911-2011” exhibit.

What do you wear by day? Highwaisted jeans by Khaite or The Row, a Brock Collection cashmere sweater, Celine sneakers and a crocodile belt.

What do you wear by night? I love black Valentino pants with a killer Saint Laurent or Chanel heel.

Favorite boutiques?

Mameg. You have to walk through Maison Margiela on Santa Monica Boulevard to get to it. It has European designers and things you wouldn’t typically see. Also, RTH on La Cienega Boulevard has custom pieces, like denim reworked and belt buckles that feel a little bit Western.

Favorite sunglasses? A modern cateye — a black pair by Thierry Lasry or Cutler and Gross. They’re simple in style.

Favorite drive? Up north, the road to Stinson Beach — it’s beautiful, coastal and winding. It feels like home. •

FLANNERY PORTRAIT: NAJ JAMAL. SUNGLASSES: COURTESY OF CUTLER AND GROSS. BOURDIN: GUY BOURDIN, COPYRIGHT THE GUY BOURDIN ESTATE 2019/COURTESY OF LOUISE ALEXANDER GALLERY. CORAL CASINO: FOUR SEASONS. MULES: COURTESY OF CHANEL. DE YOUNG: COURTESY OF DE YOUNG MUSEUM. BEVERLY HILLS HOTEL: AUDREY MA. “BRUCE HULSE AND TALISA SOTO FOR BRITISH VOGUE, BELLPORT, NY 1982,” 1982, COPYRIGHT BRUCE WEBER, COURTESY OF BRUCE WEBER AND NAN BUSH, AS SEEN IN THE “ICONS OF STYLE: A CENTURY OF FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY, 1911-2011” EXHIBIT AT THE GETTY CENTER.

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