A year in review: Image magazine's most read stories

At Image, we often speech astir the mag arsenic a surviving archive of Los Angeles — a abstraction to seizure and memorialize each the vibrant things happening crossed this city. Above all, we attraction astir covering what really matters to you, our readers, which is wherefore it’s ever meaningful to america to spot which stories resonated the most. This year, our astir fashionable stories tapped into immoderate of the specifics that marque up L.A. life: a reverence for rollerskating, spas and Craftsman architecture, a penchant for wearing wintertime apparel erstwhile it’s 70 degrees out, and an endless conflict successful the dating landscape. We besides saw emotion for artists, some seasoned and emerging, who, against each odds, person built worlds that halfway care, quality and friendship.

Below are our 15 most-read stories, which are conscionable a portion of what we’ve published this year. You tin revisit our past issues to work much and motion up for our newsletter to enactment successful the loop.

Raiven (top) wears Kwame Adusei Katen dress. Kwame (center) wears Kwame Adusei Kamlo pinstripe fastener up, Kapli shorts and Maison Margiela boots. Sylvie (bottom) wears Kwame Adusei Kapli formal and vintage shoes from Rocotito Archives.

(Gioncarlo Valentine / For The Times)

15. Julissa James connected however Kwame Adusei is creating a notation constituent for an African manner location successful L.A.

A Kwame Adusei portion tin beryllium clocked by its presence. It’s calved of a spot that exists beyond inclination oregon hype, taking cues from Adusei’s practice and reinterpreting them for our city. Read the story.

Mackenzie Palmer (left) wears Vex Clothing gloves, Fait Par Foutch bralette, American Apparel roseate panties. Cami Árboles (right) wears Dion Lee top, Vex Clothing stocking, Oséree bottoms.

(Nori Rasmussen-Martinez / For The Times)

14. Darian Dandridge connected a trio of rod dancers

For Cami Árboles, Mackenzie Palmer and Devon Cherry, the rod is simply a portal for anyone funny capable to measurement into it. Read the story.

Marwang wears a 424 Coat and Polo Ralph Lauren pajamas.

(Maiwenn Raoult / For The Times)

13. Dave Schilling connected dressing for the coldest spot successful L.A. — the wrong of your apartment

If you’re a renter successful Los Angeles, your landlord is legally required to supply you with heat, but volition we each request to beryllium moving our heaters successful March? Simply put, L.A. optimism astatine its astir unbridled. Read the story.

Custom assemblage suit constructed by Justus Steele and co-designed with Sudan.

(Sam Lee / For The Times)

12. Harmony Holiday connected the caller Sudan Archives

Basking successful a post-breakup glow, Sudan Archives’ caller dependable is arsenic carefree and earnest arsenic the mode of beingness she’s cultivating. Read the story.

From near to right: Aja Gabel wears an Ali Golden dress. Jean Chen Ho wears a Renaissance Renaissance maxi dress, a Vanessa Mooney necklace and a vintage jade necklace and bracelet. Angela Flournoy, center, wears a vintage vest, Melody Ehsani earrings and vintage customized bracelets and rings. Jade Chang wears a vintage tuxedo garment and customized pants. Xuan Juliana Wang wears an INITIAL qipao dress.

(Nori Rasmussen-Martinez / For The Times)

11. Jean Chen Ho connected the authors who wrote their books unneurotic astatine Little Dom’s

For years, Jade Chang, Angela Flournoy, Aja Gabel, Jean Chen Ho and Xuan Juliana Wang met for regular enactment sessions astatine the cozy Italian American edifice connected Hillhurst Avenue successful Los Feliz. Read the story.

Esty wears an ASHISH acceptable and King of Sneakers rollerskates.

(Pele Joez / For The Times)

10. Kailyn Brown connected the past of L.A.’s Black indoor roller-skating scene

In L.A., roller skating for Black skaters is much than conscionable rolling successful circles astir a rink. Read the story.

(JJ Geiger / For The Times)

9. Katerina Portela connected the Craftsman location channeling ‘In the Mood for Love’

The Hong Kong-born designer Paul Chan opened the studio, Days of Being, this twelvemonth arsenic a spot for visitors to rent and artists to person a spot to make and recharge. Read the story.

(Sergiy Barchuk / For The Times)

8. Eugenie Dalland connected jewelry arsenic the eventual signifier of reinvention

People look to deliberation that covering is the champion practice of our personalities, of who we privation to be. But it’s really the jewelry we deterioration that astir often speaks to who we deliberation we are. Read the story.

Takako Yamaguchi

(Jennelle Fong / For The Times)

7. Elisa Wouk Almino connected Takako Yamaguchi, the L.A. creator we should’ve already known

At 72, the creator has yet gained organization recognition, and she’s having the astir amusive she’s ever had. Read the story.

Marvin Douglas Linares (left) wears Jacquemus apical and shoes, Marvin Douglas jewelry, David Perry Jewelry cigar set ring, Bru glasses, and Moynat trunk. Storm Pablo (right) wears his marque CNTRA and Moynat bags.

(Eric Rojas / For The Times)

6. Keyla Marquez connected Bad Bunny’s stylists, who transformed the superstar into a manner icon

Storm Pablo and Marvin Douglas Linares person recovered a look that works — and it starts by telling Bad Bunny’s story. Read the story.

(Taylor Washington / For The Times)

5. Courtney Wittich connected the creation of bathing successful L.A.

Los Angeles stands retired arsenic 1 of the astir immense and varied bathing cities successful the world. Read the story.

Erik Charlotte VonSosen wears each archetypal Erik Charlotte.

(Christopher Behroozian / For The Times)

4. Cerys Davies connected the 24-year-old decorator becoming the look of avant-garde manner successful L.A.

Erik Charlotte VonSosen opens up astir her designing process, resistance culture’s power connected her enactment and her vendetta against Pinterest. Read the story.

Paz de la Huerta wears her ain Dolce & Gabbana dress, stylist’s ain vintage Louboutin shoes.

(Sebastian Acero / For The Times)

3. Devan Díaz connected Paz de la Huerta successful Hollywood

De la Huerta directs herself into 3 viable paths her beingness could’ve taken, including the shade of Marilyn Monroe. Read the story.

Louis Vuitton x Murakami Monogram Superflat Flowers Square, Monogram Multicolor Chouchou. Louis Vuitton x Murakami Nice Mini. (Fran Tamse / For The Times)

2. Emilia Petrarca connected Louis Vuitton and Takashi Murakami’s frenzied comeback

With the Y2K revival inclination seemingly astatine its peak, nostalgia for the carefree innocence of the ’00s made this infinitesimal ripe for a Murakami relaunch. Read the story.

(Brittany Holloway-Brown / For The Times)

1. Goth Shakira connected erstwhile it’s clip to extremity a relationship

An introspection of your satellite motion tin assistance airy the way. Read the story.