I know it's the outright cheesiest thing to say, but I really have always had a deep love for fashion since a very young age. Despite my humble reputation at school as "the quiet girl", I finally figured out how to grow into my own identity and I did that via my clothing. I started wearing handmade flower crowns (I was in my wannabe Coachella phase), platform-heeled boots, and layers of chunky necklaces to my suburban high school with abandon. I found myself going through a real transformation, ...

Fairfax Avenue is the streetwear mecca of Los Angeles. Situated on a four-block stretch, you have the likes of Supreme, FourTwoFour, The Hundreds, Tyler, the Creator’s Golf Wang, and HUF. And in the heart of it all is ME., designer Melody Eshani’s namesake shop. She happens to be the only woman to own a store on Fairfax, and her accessible line of apparel, jewelry, and accessories has attracted notable fans including Rihanna, Billie Eilish, Lena Waithe, and Yara Shahidi, to name a few. But E...

When my Slack messages begin returning to the same topic again and again, it tells me one thing loud and clear—this is about to be big. That’s exactly what occurred to me when my fellow editors started dropping messages with bags from the S/S 21 Givenchy, Jil Sander, and Hermès collections. All of them with sleek, slim, two-dimensions silhouettes that practically look like manila envelopes.These paper-thin filing folder bags instantly read as fresh and cool. A major departure from the over...

There's nothing the fashion crowd loves more than getting behind a rather specific aesthetic. Whether it's adopting kitschy 2000's-era kidcore or cosplaying as a country club-attending tennis star, fashion people love participating in a bit of sartorial role play. Look, I don't make the rules. As I mentioned, the tennis courts were a huge theme we noticed all over Instagram last year, but recently we've been seeing a new fashion aesthetic spring up, and, yes, it's all about embodying your inner...