John McDavid Lehman of R.B. of McD on Designing Handbags and Los Angeles Style | Handbag Blog

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This is a question that I have given a lot of thought to as well as dedicating my career to properly addressing the mechanics of LA fashion and style. Obviously, a great deal of our fashion trends are dictated by our amazing but ever shifting weather. There is a looseness, a freedom to our fashion that you really don’t see anywhere else in the states. You see it a lot with the French, who like us are habitual rule breakers. Seriously, pockets of Silver Lake, Downtown, 3rd & Beverly feel like Paris in regard to day-to-day street style especially with the dudes. We get such a bad rap for being lazy which I find a tad insulting…we are just misunderstood, for there is a great deal of purpose and order to our style. We are deliberate with our details, but I can see how our overlapping of styles can be a bit confusing. Being a native I love to crossover, double breasts & blazers...

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