Document: WM-085                                                 P. Webb
Category: Life                                                2026-03-13

                          Fashion Trip to L.A.

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   Designers! Make it work!

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   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.

   

   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!

   

   

   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.

   

   

   

   

   

   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!

   

   

   

   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.

   

   Whenever a celebrity is wearing fabric you sell, you gotta brag
   about it.

   

   As I escaped the Fashion District I couldn’t help but to take pics of
   some gorgeous dresses.

   

   

   I also saw a dope mural and Kendrick Lamar’s appearance at his popout
   was at the end.

   

   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.

   

   The Fashion District was overwhelming but so was this, haha! Look at
   all this!

   

   

   

   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.

   

   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."

   

   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.

   

   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.

   

   The bacon breakfast burrito[3] was pretty good too.

   

   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.

   

   

   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.

   

   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. 🕸️