When someone thinks of Los Angeles style, prim taffetas and three-piece skirt suits aren’t often a part of the image. It’s something that Chelsea Mak — an independent designer-on-the-rise based in Silver Lake — is seeking to change.
Mak, who founded her namesake label in 2018, is immersed in a “rebel debutante vibe” that gives a counterpoint to the neutral linens and knits which have turn into Los Angeles’ important style currency.
The brand reflects an amalgamation of Mak’s native Pasadena roots, the formal dresses she wore to Shanghai teenage coming-of-age events, and the tailoring culture she was exposed to while visiting the Chinese city together with her mother.
The result are matching sorbet-colored shantung pencil pants and shirt sets, handkerchief hemline silk...
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