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SOCAL magazine TABLE OF CONTENTS
from 03 letter the editor
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story: 03 cover paul walker
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SOCAL magazine EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Nary Ngeth DEPUTY EDITOR Nary Ngeth DESIGN DIRECTOR Nary Ngeth CREATIVE DIRECTOR Nary Ngeth MANAGING EDITOR Nary Ngeth SENIOR ARTICLES EDITOR Nary Ngeth FEATURES EDITOR Nary Ngeth ARTICLES EDITOR Nary Ngeth SENIOR EDITORS Nary Ngeth & Randy Dunbar ASSOCIATE EDITORS Nary Ngeth DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Nary Ngeth BOOKINGS DIRECTOR Nary Ngeth
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PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Nary Ngeth ASSITANT TO THE EDITOR Nary Ngeth FASHION DIRECTOR Nary Ngeth FASHION MARKET DIRECTOR Nary Ngeth FASHION EDITOR Nary Ngeth
letter from the editor: “Live for the moment because everything else is uncertain.” Growing up in Southern California has been remarkable. I wouldn’t live anywhere else. I created SoCal Magazine to share with you, my readers, endless of possibilities that can take place here in Southern California. It doesn’t matter if you’re five miles away from here or maybe even 3,000 miles away; it is my duty to give you an insight of what Southern California is all about – being fearless. The essence of life is to be fearless. We’re too busy worrying about what will happen next that we forget to just live in the moment. Be courageous and take chances. One of the greatest things you can do in life is accomplishing what others say you cannot do. Believe in yourself because if you don’t then who will? The only regret you will have in your life is not doing. Don’t be afraid to jump and don’t be afraid to fall.
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Live Life Juiced!
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The Fifth Floor Windows into the Surreal
FIDM’s 5th floor windows celebrate the surreal work of Elsa Schiaparelli BY Hamish Bowles
“Madder and more original than most of her contemporaries, Mme Schiaparelli is the one to whom the word ‘genius’ is applied most often,” Time magazine wrote of its cover subject in 1934. Coco Chanel once dismissed her rival as “that Italian artist who makes clothes.” (To Schiaparelli, Chanel was simply “that milliner.”) Indeed, Schiaparelli—“Schiap” to friends—stood out among her peers as a true nonconformist, using clothing as a medium to express her unique ideas. In the thirties, her peak creative period, her salon overflowed with the wild, the whimsical, and even the ridiculous. Many of her madcap designs could be pulled off only by a woman of great substance and style: Gold ruffles sprouted from the fingers of chameleon-green suede gloves; a pale-blue satin evening gown—modeled by Madame Crespi in Vogue—had a stiff overskirt of Rhodophane (a transparent, glasslike modern material); a smart black suit jacket had red lips for pockets. Handbags, in the form of music boxes, tinkled tunes like “Rose Marie, I Love You”; others fastened with padlocks. Monkey fur and zippers (newfangled in the thirties) were everywhere. Love of trompe l’oeil can be traced to the faux-bow sweater that kick-started Schiaparelli’s career and brought her quirky style to the masses. “Dare to be different,” is the advice she offered to women. Pace-setters and rule-breakers waved that flag through the sixties, the seventies, and beyond. Photocredit Portrait: Irving Penn Windows: photographed by Carlos Diaz
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THE MUST HAVE
SWAG Collection
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Actor. Racecar Driver. Sportsman. Marine Biologist. Humanitarian. Father.
Paul Walker was a refreshing enigma in Hollywood. Though he starred in one of the most successful movie franchises of all time, he never seemed to revel in fame. He wouldn’t go out of his way to drum up press. Walker, the man, remained somewhat of a mystery throughout his career. SoCal Magazine | 14
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alker was easy to stereotype as a lucky, pretty face that didn’t have much going on upstairs. But I never understood that characterization of the star. Walker was always candid and articulate in interviews and, in fact, he lived a remarkably interesting life — one more deserving of attention than the brazen celebrity exploits that so often steal our focus. He was a globe-trekking adventurer, and he made his mark as an athlete, an outdoorsman, a public servant, and most recently, as a devoted father. The tragedy of Walker’s shocking death is that he was beginning to achieve greatness in each of those fields. He was hitting his stride — and it all got cut short. I hope we don’t remember Walker as merely a handsome action star. He was a human being defined by a multitude of passions, not a smolder. Below, I’ve listed a few of Walker’s less-talked-about facets that made him, to me, a singularly fascinating man. Even before his name became synonymous with fast cars and rumbling engines, Walker’s mind was set on burning rubber. He often implied that he participated in amateur street racing while growing up in San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles and once memorably told George Lopez, “I didn’t race,” with a wink and a coy grin. His passion for cars brought him to the Fast and Furious franchise. Walker told Automobile magazine that while filming The Skulls in 1999, he said to director Rob Cohen, “I want to do a movie where I’m racing cars or I’m an undercover cop.” That wish was granted in Cohen’s very next film, The Fast and the Furious, which arrived in 2001. His passion for racing only grew as the highoctane franchise hit its box office stride. In 2010, he began competing semi-professionally in the Redline Time Attack series, driving a BMW M3 E92. He was also a part-owner of the performance shop Always Evolving (whose CEO Roger Rodas was driving the car that killed both him and Walker). To get a sense of Walker’s autoknowledge, watch the video below from about 1:30 until 2:45, during which time he disarmingly geeks out about driving cars at Mine’s Motor Sports in Japan. SoCal Magazine | 16
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s might be expected of an athletically built marine biologist-inthe-making, Walker quickly took to surfing as a high schooler. “Surfing soothes me,” he told Dark Horizons in 2001. “It’s always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I’m on a wave.” He later became an ardent fan of Brazilian jiujitsu, a form of martial arts that emphasizes grappling — and one that he said helped him become a better surfer. Walker had earned a brown belt (the second-highest level of achievement) in the sport and was working toward earning his black belt. Paragon, the gym where Walker trained with acclaimed coach Ricardo “Franjinha” Miller, released this video of one of their training sessions in 2010. Though he loved everything from parkour to archery, Walker had suggested he was slowing down as he neared 40. “I used to be a really big hunter,” he said. “What I’ve found as I’ve gotten older is I enjoy taking photos of the wildlife more.” He was exploring a burgeoning interest in birding in recent years, and he’d begun to pursue botany as a hobby. Recognizing the need for fast-acting first responders who could provide help and cut through red tape, Walker soon founded Reach Out Worldwide, a disaster relief organization that, according to the ROWW website, specializes in “arriving quickly, clearing access, providing basic necessities and medical assistance to ease the survivors’ pain and bringing hope in the bleakest of circumstances.”
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In loving memory Paul Walker 1973 - 2013
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Richard Avedon: A Portrait of an Artist
Deck: Fahey Klein presents a major retrospective of the photographers work. By Kely Smith What do Jean Genet, Jimmy Durante, Brigitte chant Marine’s photographic section. Upon his Bardot, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jacques Cousteau, return in 1944, he found a job as a photograAndy Warhol, and Lena Horne have in com- pher in a department store. Within two years mon? They were a few of the many personal- he had been “found” by an art director at Harpities caught on film by photographer Richard er’s Bazaar and was producing work for them Avedon. For more than fifty years, Richard as well as Vogue, Look, and a number of othAvedon’s portraits have filled the pages of the er magazines. During the early years, Avedon country’s finest magazines. His stark imagery made his living primarily through work in adand brilliant insight into his subjects’ charac- vertising. His real passion, however, was the ters has made him one of the premier Ameri- portrait and its ability to express the essence of its subject. can portrait photographers. Born in New York in 1923, Richard Avedon As Avedon’s notoriety grew, so did the opportudropped out of high school and joined the Mer- nities to meet and photograph celebrities from SoCal Magazine | 22
a broad range of disciplines. Avedon’s ability to present personal views of public figures, who were otherwise distant and inaccessible, was immediately recognized by the public and the celebrities themselves. Many sought out Avedon for their most public images. His
a portion of the person being photographed, the images seem intimate in their imperfection. While many photographers are interested in either catching a moment in time or preparing a formal image, Avedon has found a way to do both.
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Beyond his work in the magazine industry, Avedon has collaborated on a number of books of portraits. In 1959 he worked with Truman Capote on a book that documented some of the most famous and important people of the century. Observations included images of Buster Keaton, Gloria Vanderbilt, Pablo Picasso, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Mae West. Around this same time he began a series of images of patients in mental hospitals. Replacing the controlled environment of the studio with that of the hospital he was able to recreate the genius of his other portraits with non-celebrities. The brutal reality of the lives of the insane was a bold contrast to his other work. Years later he would again 23 | SoCal Magazine
drift from his celebrity portraits with a series of decades. In 1992 he became the first staff phostudio images of drifters, carnival workers, and tographer for The New Yorker, and two years later the Whitney Museum brought together fifworking class Americans. ty years of his work in the retrospective, “RichThroughout the 1960s Avedon continued to ard Avedon: Evidence”. He was voted one of work for Harper’s Bazaar and in 1974 he col- the ten greatest photographers in the world by laborated with James Baldwin on the book Popular Photography magazine, and in 1989 Nothing Personal. Having met in New York in received an honorary doctorate from the Royal 1943, Baldwin and Avedon were friends and College of Art in London. Today, his pictures collaborators for more than thirty years. For continue to bring us a closer, more intimate all of the 1970s and 1980s Avedon continued view of the great and the famous. working for Vogue magazine, where he would take some of the most famous portraits of the Avedon died on October 1st, 2004.
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