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When you’re apartment hunting, you usually imagine where pieces of furniture will go in each empty building before you decide on signing a lease. Maybe a potted plant will go behind a pleather couch in the corner, or your bed will be placed delicately against the urban staple of a distressed brick wall. Then after you finish signing the lease, …

Every morning getting dressed, she starts with the sneakers. Micah Logan, better known to her Huntsville radio listeners as ML6, then creates the rest of the day’s outfit around her shoes. If it’s going to be a long day, ML6 will opt for a pair that’s comfy “but still fresh and fly,” she says. “If I’m going to be walking …

As a Black woman, I like to experiment with my hair. I enjoy box braids, faux locs, Senegalese twists, fulani braids, and my most worn hairstyle: textured pixies. Unfortunately, like many other Black women, I am often falsely judged on my appearance based on my hair — especially in the workforce. Former bosses and colleagues have directly (and indirectly) referred …

(Joyce Lee/For The Times) This is part of Image Issue 4, “Image Makers,” a paean to L.A.’s luminaries of style. In this issue, we pay tribute to the people and brands pushing fashion culture in the city forward. Back in those once-upon-a-time days when everything felt right, there were me and my boys, the lot of us, posing hard for …