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Nichelle Dailey documents the uniqueness of nightlife style in Los Angeles

Nichelle Dailey documents the uniqueness of nightlife style in Los Angeles

The gods of Los Angeles style walk among us after the sun sets.

(Nichelle Dailey / for The Times)

Fashion metaphors are often future-oriented.You have to look good. Dress for the role you want to play. Style is a means to an end: a goal. An ambition. A designation or title. A reward. Wealth. Influence. But the style gods who walk among us don't fit a desired job or salary; they do it as a statement of who they want to be when they make moves. They dress according to the place they are going.

Each style capital has its own personality, with interlocutors making fashion decisions that play with the specific energy of their environment. Cities have unique ways of facilitating interactions and residents choose to introduce themselves based on their relationship to the choreography of the day. The New Yorker leaves the house dressed as if he were prepared for anything. An Angeleno prepares thinking about the light.

The trickle on display in Los Angeles increases as the day progresses. It's not how outsiders and adventurers understand it: it's all Uggs, glasses and sportswear. all the the time. You may feel the style evading categorization as the day progresses. Then at 3:32 pm the temperature starts to change. That little pinch in the air is the sign that the fashun The time is quickly approaching.

The after hours style is its own genre. With that in mind, we asked photographer Nichelle Dailey if she could come out and document people as they stay active during nights out on the town. Dailey has a way of foregrounding the essence of a subject. Her lens captures (and extracts) what's inside with remarkable clarity.

His street style photographs in this photo essay reveal the unique character of night style. He shows it to us in all its luminosity. — the editors