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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: L.A. Chic: Between Rags and RichesUrban chic: The becoming of the new Los AngelesChapter 1: Freeway vs DowntownFrom suburban noir to downtown chicFrom the suburbs to loft living, or: Neo-noir in gentrification-land: Veronica Mars - The MovieNaomi Hirahara: Murder on Bamboo Lane and Grave on Grand AvenueThe subversive need for speed: Fast family, smart L.A. and muscle/cars in Furious 7A gentler, softer, hipper Los Angeles for the twenty-first century?Chapter 2: Santee Alley vs Santa Fe: Latinidad between Ramonaland and Latino GritFuego: The new L.A. street style in Santee AlleyThe Ramona mythologyLos Angeles and Santa Fe: A tale of two nostalgiasFashioning latinidadChapter 3: L.A.'s Surf Chic: From Drop-Out Culture to Silicon BeachBeaches, L.A. styleL.A. beaches become chicSurfer cultureThe original beachboysLet's go surfing now: Californian lifestyle in the 1950sSurf globally, resist locallySilicon surfersReading the beachesChapter 4: Bling and the Realities of Compton and CalabasasThe Bling RingSurfaces and serialityFacialityUmwelt - CalabasasThe ins and outs of ComptonCoda: GTA: City without angelsChapter 5: L.A. Fashion in MuseumsLos Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM)Other fashion-related exhibitions in L.A.Chapter 6: Los Angelization a la Tom Ford: From American Gigolo to American Apparel"Doing a Gucci"Armani goes to Hollywood"Doing a Dov"Conclusion: Learning from Los Angeles, the Josephine Baker of CitiesWorks CitedFilmography

Los Angeles is undergoing a makeover. Leaving behind its image as all freeways and suburbs, sunshine and noir, it is reinventing itself as walkable, ecologically healthy, and fashionable. This locational history of Los Angeles fashion and style allows us to understand the urban processes, desires and politics of re-imagining LA as the global, multi-ethnic city of the 21st century

L.A. Chic : a Locational History of Los Angeles Fashion