Summer Wildness

The first time I traveled to L.A., at age 12, I couldn’t wait to put on my roller skates and hit the Venice boardwalk à la Linda Ronstadt. In the 1980s, the Go-Go’s kept the dream of Southern California alive for me. And by the time I had relocated to L.A. in the 1990s, I was old enough to see shows at the Whisky a Go Go, which was within stumbling distance of my first apartment.

Fashion moves to music too. For the spring collections in stores now, designers sampled pop-music imagery that spans decades, genres and locales. So we’ve dedicated our fashion pages to looks inspired by music style archetypes: hippie, glam rocker, soft and sweet. (You provide the playlist.)