CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/17/2025

LA style, magic and myth in Jasmine Benjamin's 'City of Angels'

Featured photograph—of model, educator and Highland Park native Sara Fernandez—is reproduced from Jasmine Benjamin’s highly anticipated new monograph, City of Angels: A Book about L.A. Style. Collecting 125 portraits and short interviews with rising, free-spirited and style-savvy creatives, it’s also a love letter to homegrown LA street culture. “To me, that’s what Los Angeles style is all about,” Benjamin writes, “hybrid practices that travel far beyond the fashion narrative into visual art, cinema, music and social activism. The entire City of Angels project is about this way of seeing, and asks readers to see past the clichés and stereotypes … City of Angels is a true-to-life, positive, and inspiring portrait not just of clothing or style but of the diverse, dazzlingly eclectic character of this captivating city.”