
When Google Buys Your Hometown Mall
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Devon HenryBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingJun 25Photo: Clara Ciszynski/EyeEm/Getty ImagesI’m at a party in Silverlake when I meet her. She’s a model-turned-filmmaker from a place where the way people greet each other isn’t “Hello” or “How are you,” but “Do you have a cigarette?” She lives in the Hollywood Hills. I am told her friends make up most of the CW casting pool.
We are congregated around the firepit outside. It is a sea of raw denim, leather jackets, beanies, and beards: a Netflix-perfect amalgamation of LA style, whatever that might be.