Our favorite looks from “L.A. Vie en Rose” at Soho Warehouse. Collectively, we dripped

The dress code caused mass chaos in the group chats: “Dripping in romance,” taking inspiration from the night’s theme, “L.A. Vie en Rose.” Any good prompt is both esoteric and hyper-specific enough to let your imagination run wild (and trigger an existential crisis). But mostly, we used it as a framework for the kind of night we thought L.A. deserved: a sexy one — where we dressed up in patent leather boots, wore red lipstick and crushed rose petals under our feet on the dance floor.
The party, hosted by Soho Warehouse with drinks by 400 Conejos, felt like the only fitting way to celebrate our biggest issue of the year (our biggest issue ever, actually): Image Makers, a love letter to the creative directors, photographers, designers and artists who are shaping the look and feel of the city with their work, day in and day out.
The event featured a photo exhibition highlighting our subjects: leather designer Zana Bayne; latex designer Mariano Cortez; global girl group Katseye and their fashion fairy godfather Humberto Leon; stylist and Saint Helen’s House founder Zerina Akers; photographer Emanuel Hahn; costume designer Natasha Newman-Thomas; stylist Ann-Marie Hoang; Peruvian Parisian creative director Claudia Rivera; Parisian fashion designer Vincent Frederic-Colombo; creative director and photographer Eric Solis in collaboration with Planeta and Wavey; and leather goods craftsman Guillermo Cuevas. Earlier that night, the Image Makers gathered for an intimate dinner on the Soho Warehouse roof, where they received gift bags curated by fashion director at large Keyla Marquez. Each bag included a pair of Nike Shox contributed by Nike L.A., a custom keychain with charms personal to each Image Maker and a bandanna featuring every Image logo ever commissioned, created by Image’s design director Jessica de Jesus.
Party guests danced to the sounds of NoNo, Mia Carucci and Bianca Lexis late into the night and posed in a custom photo booth inspired by the party’s theme, created by production designer Zoe-Zoe (the artist who created our lettering for the Image Makers issue) and floral designer Gray Hong. Collectively, we dripped.