Ian Blair

Nov 9, 2024 | playgirl.com | Ian Blair

Excerpt from Playgirl, July 1988It’s hard to believe it’s been over 22 years since Cher first burst onto the music scene, along with her then-husband Sonny Bono. After performing in small clubs as Caesar & Cleo, the couple changed their professional names to Sonny and Cher and scored their first Top Ten hit with their debut single, “Baby Don’t Go,” back in 1965.

Dec 14, 2023 | latimes.com | Ian Blair

Peer through the fence and squint: The artists on wheels are at work, just doing the damn thing. “Creative” is an overused term, too flattened by overuse, too non-descriptive to label skaters’movements. What they do is more like writing with their bodies and boards — part choreography, part poetry. On their four trucks and their decks they deliver what the imagination cooks up. What their mind’s eye sees. Skaters give shape to the divine. Translation might be another way of putting it.

Sep 13, 2023 | latimes.com | Ian Blair

This story is part of Image issue 21, “Image Makers,” our third annual celebration of the homegrown fashion luminaries who are designing a global fashion future built from the L.A. that was. Read the whole issue here. The crease is a line the memory doesn’t forget. At first sight, it announces its presence, demands you recognize its existence. It pulls you in, wants you to know it took some work to get here. It’s a mark of a deliberation and execution. The crease was created with intention.

Sep 13, 2023 | latimes.com | Ian Blair

This story is part of Image issue 21, “Image Makers,” our third annual celebration of the homegrown fashion luminaries who are designing a global fashion future built from the L.A. that was. Read the whole issue here. The scent inside the Spa is palo santo. It welcomes you in with its hazy aroma. Infuses the air with a smoky invitation to stay a while. This is what all great spas do: they beckon you to post up. Conversations follow suit; ideas really start flowing when the energy is right.