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Book SynopsisThe first book to document Los Angeles's remarkable explosion onto the global fashion scene
Trade Review"This gorgeous coffee-table book... Tracks L.A.'s ascension through the talents who put it on the map."—EnRoute
"The book makes a compelling argument for the City of Angels as the newest fashion epicenter."—Modern Luxury Angeleno
"Steeped in California cool."—Vanity Fair
"Beyond red carpets and boardwalks, Los Angeles has exploded as a capital on the global map."—Vanity Fair
"Cali-girl your style. Phaidon's new fashion bible spotlights LA designers."—Grazia
"Your new favourite coffee-table read is a joyous study into transatlantic apparel. Fashion in LA reads like a smooth road trip through the states. It accelerates your history knowledge, maintains speed with informative brand memoirs and shifts things up a gear with striking photography. A non-fiction hardback bursting with local pride... Upon unboxing the book one can marvel at its cover, decorated with a vibrant font and graphic photo collage... Its inch-thick spine is inscribed with a list of brands that feature inside, demonstrating the efforts Fares and Smith have gone to in order to curate this behemoth fashion bible."—_Shift magazine
"Published by preternatural maker of beautiful tomes, Phaidon, [and] digs deep into the roots of Los Angeles style, from its cache of design talent... [A] gorgeous, technicolor book."—PaperCity Dallas
"A lush tome profiling 41 L.A.-based designers."—Vogue Online
