The frightening beauty of Six Foot Owl’s ‘Closing Thoughts’ tees

Most of Six Foot Owl’s hand-painted T-shirts and jackets verge on being a bit too romantic for my tastes. The “clothing art company,” founded by high school friends Brianne Cirel and Johnie Thornton, plays with images both sorta cute (piano keys, telephone poles, ants tracking down [...]

There’s something about Greenspan’s

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
No one mistakes South Gate for the epicenter of the fashion world, but an exception is Greenspan’s—“Serving the Lowrider Community Since 1928.” The historic clothing store’s clientèle includes James Brown, most of N.W.A, John Lee Hooker, Cypress Hill, House of Pain and Rancid (as well as the wardrobe departments [...]