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Document: WM-085 P. Webb
Category: Life 2026-03-13
Fashion Trip to L.A.
Abstract
Designers! Make it work!
Body
My wife is in fashion school and was invited to spend a couple days
in L.A. to go on a behind-the-scenes tour of various studios, shops,
factories, and more. I took the opportunity to take a few days off
work to accompany her and do some exploration while she was busy.
📸[on the way to the airport terminal][IMG1]
Our hotel was near L.A. Live, which is a huge stadium for events. Our
last night in the area was BUSY on account of a Lakers game happening
as we were at a restaurant (more on that fantastic food later). Check
out the view from our hotel!
📸[Kobe Bryant mural][IMG2]
📸[nighttime view outside our window][IMG3]
Our first full day, I decided to trek to the Fashion District and on
the way I noticed a LOT of graffiti and stickers on the sidewalk. I
was pleasantly surprised to see graffiti of A$AP Rocky's "Don't Be
Dumb" *while I was listening to the album*. That was neat.
📸[Don't Be Dumb!!][IMG4]
📸[Dykes! This will change your life. C H A D][IMG5]
📸[skyscraper graffiti][IMG6]
📸[cool tag][IMG7]
📸[another cool tag][IMG8]
The Fashion District is overwhelming. Fabric, **everywhere**. On the
sidewalk, in the street, on side streets, and just...a lot. From what
I know about fabric, a red flag is super cheap prices; whatever you
make from it most likely won't last long, but it gets people looking!
📸[lovely floral fabric][IMG9]
📸[cheap fabric][IMG10]
📸[even cheaper fabric!][IMG11]
I had to ask around for nude swim fabric for a tutorial my wife is
working on and finally found some at Prime Fabric. I asked one of the
employees, Joseph, why everyone congregated here and the answer is
just inertia.
📸[nude swim fabric][IMG12]
Whenever a celebrity is wearing fabric you sell, you gotta brag
about it.
📸[Jennifer Lopez's runway dress fabric for sale][IMG13]
As I escaped the Fashion District I couldn't help but to take pics of
some gorgeous dresses.
📸[rose dress][IMG14]
📸[bedazzled dress][IMG15]
I also saw a dope mural and Kendrick Lamar's appearance at his popout
was at the end.
📸[Kendrick Lamar mural][IMG16]
After stopping at a barber shop for a quick beard line-up, I decided
to hop on a Lime scooter and make my way to Mood Fabrics. My wife and
I **love** Project Runway so any excuse to visit Mood (THE fabric
shop the contestants always visit in NYC) is taken.
📸[Mood!][IMG17]
The Fashion District was overwhelming but so was this, haha! Look at
all this!
📸[fabric as far as the eye can see][IMG18]
📸[bolts, everywhere][IMG19]
📸[i bought two yards of this dark floral fabric][IMG20]
I will say that the L.A. location is MUCH more spacious than the NYC
one. I feel like the NYC location is probably grandfathered into some
rent agreement and/or the nostalgia/location is too great.
My back heavy, I scooted back to our hotel and almost got hit by a
Waymo in the process. When you open the Lime app it tells you to use
the bike lane and not the sidewalk...but drivers don't give a shit
and bike lanes aren't everywhere.
I also ran into an unfortunate situation around the corner from our
hotel. I was ZOOMING down the street and suddenly the scooter slowed
down so I pulled over (thankfully I was the only vehicle around) and
realized I had driven into a no-drive zone? I had to walk the scooter
to the end of the block before I was allowed to use it again.
I eventually met up with my wife again and we went to this soul food
restaurant in the L.A. Live plaza.
📸[wife smiling as we wait for food][IMG21]
Deviled eggs are delicious to me so I had to order the deep-fried
versions. The description on the menu reads, "deep fried egg cups
filled with creamy yolks topped with bacon and hot sauce."
📸[deep fried deviled eggs][IMG22]
BRUH
Phenomenal. My wife doesn't like eggs so that was all for me. Our
food came soon after and it smelled great, tasted better. She had
fried fish, red beans and rice, and collard greens. I had the
gumbo with shrimp.
📸[right before we demolish our food][IMG23]
The weakest part of the meal was the peach cobbler (too sweet, and
wife didn't like the texture) but that's such a minor quibble. If
you're in L.A., go to Fixins[1], and have a reservation because they
stay busy!
On our last day I met up with one of my online friends IRL! Several
years ago I was interviewing for a job at Sonos and Brad[2] and I had
a great convo. I didn't get the job and he later left the company.
Some time later I recognized his name on Farcaster when we were both
on that social platform and we kept in touch since then.
It's not often I get to nerd out in person with someone who
understands WTF I'm talking about so the time flew.
📸[Brad and I][IMG24]
The bacon breakfast burrito[3] was pretty good too.
📸[bacon breakfast burrito with salsa][IMG25]
The last stop of the day was meeting my wife and her classmates in
the Fashion District to check out a warehouse-sized store. By this
point I was POOPED so I only took a few pics before relaxing on a
bench while my wife got some yardage cut.
📸[hey look, more fabric][IMG26]
📸[fabric detail][IMG27]
All in all, a good trip! The next time we go back, an extra suitcase
to fill with Fashion District finds is gonna accompany us. Also, did
you know that there's a FLOWER District too?! I want to explore that
next time, we're a floral family.
📸[my shirt drawer][IMG28]
This isn't even all my (floral) shirts, I've got some in the laundry
and others in storage.
Oh yeah, after we got back home my wife saw an ad that was like "Join
us in L.A. for Fashion Week!" Womp, maybe next time. 🕸️
References
[1] <https://fixinssoulkitchen.com>
[2] <https://mastodon.social/@bradbarrish>
[3] <https://www.sandcouchcafe.com/menus/breakfast-burritos>
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