Oak

Staff are so friendly and so helpful! No one here acts like Mugatu. AND they have amazing sales. I pop in every few weeks to see what’s been marked down. One of my favorite gems in DTLA!

Best sales evarrrrrr. I selfishly don’t want anyone else to know about it but I’ve gotten Rick Owens knockoff tees and pants for 10 – 25 bucks here (usually they are like 90 dollars retail). Leather bomber jacket for 70? Yes, plz.
The perfect place to get clothes that purport to say «I don’t care what you think of me» but actually mean the exact opposite.

I was referred here by Amanda from the Beverly store because they had a sale. So I decided to put some stuff on hold and go shop downtown to see if I could grab some good deals.
When I entered there was a group of people huddled around the fitting room and I couldn’t tell if they worked there or were customers. None of them greeted me so I assumed they were customers. I was just standing around waiting for someone that works there to ask where the sale was and finally after a few mins one of the people near the fitting room had to get up and come to the area I was standing because she had to put something back. Before I could ask anything she told me where the sale was. Wow so no one could get up from their conversation to greet or tell me where anything was?
Finally there was a girl sweet enough to help me. I saw some rick Owens adidas sneakers on sale that I wanted to try on. The girl that helped me originally went to get me a few sizes. While that was happening I noticed that the other workers that did not greet me proceeded to just stand around and gossip about their customers and other friends. This happened the whole duration while I was trying my shoes. One girl just kept cleaning the dirt out of her nails on the sales floor too. So disgusting. Anyways, this is a really small store. I trekked all the way to from the other location just to check their stuff out. The service is shit and rude with the exception of that one girl.
I decided to leave and just buy the shoes on ssense and go back to Beverly to get the pieces I had tried on even though they had them downtown.
When I said I wasn’t gonna get the shoes the girl helping me said no problem thanks, while the other two just looked at me with blank faces.
Never coming back to this place. They need to learn a little bit of customer service or attentiveness.
Go shop at Beverly. Amanda and Dev are great.

Seriously love the ascetic at OAK very Rick Owens vibes at not such Rick Owens prices. They carry their in-​house brand as well as many awesome designer pieces. If you dig minimal, drapey, interesting cut pieces you’ll love OAK.
Their merchandising team looks to do a great job at displaying the product and staying true to their ascetic. I do wish the place wasn’t carpeted.
I had a problem with my credit card (I TOTALLY GOT DENIED, and no I’m not that much of a broke bitch) and they were cool about it and suggested I call my card carrier. No judgmental stares, had casual conversation when I waited for my bank to respond to the issue. Total A+ for customer service.
Oh and good sales.
Def one of my favorite little shops in LA.

OAK carries lots of minimal, black and white pieces. Simple + high quality = my cup of tea. Presentation is everything and they got it down. One other location in LA on Beverly. I like em both.

Finally downtown LA has a store worthy of its intrinsic dark nature. Store carries your healthy dose of Rick Owens, HBA, and OAK’s eponymous label. Store staff is incredibly friendly and helpful. Not to mention this place plays great loud hip hop music, the perfect soundtrack for its modern ascetic goth fashion realm. Thank you OAK!

Love, love, love. Did I mention, LOVE?
I may live in LA, but as my sorta-​kinda-​guy-​I-​was-​dating-​crushing-​FWB-​or-​whatever said, my look and preference tends to lean more New York. Needless to say, the deconstructed, yet always stylish sweatshirts, slouchy draped cardigans and plenty of black, white and grey make a store that screams ‘You need us more than we need you’… and I mean that in all the best ways.
Simply put: OAK scores a coveted place in my minimalistic & eternally monochromatic heart.
Bonus points: they let my buddy Sirius tag along on my shopping adventure… And any store that loves my dog automatically gets brownie points. ;)

The dtla location is truly a bicoastal sister store to my original experience on bond street in NYC. Everyone here is super helpful and friendly which is rare given the generic perception of fashion crowds can be intimidating. They have nothing to overcompensate for as the lines here are cutting edge unique and refreshing. Also very insightful when asking how something fits. There isn’t bs just to make a sale. If you’re able to hit up the quarterly sales it would be totally worthwhile although I end up with a whole in my pockets on any occasion. It’s one of my must stop stores to check out when downtown.

The whole neo-​goth thing still kind of works in Soho but I’m afraid that shipping it to a partially-​carpeted retail store in Sunny Southern California reminds you that the girl with blue hair and some «Obesity and Speed» asymmetrical black dress is nothing more than an evolved mall-​goth. Also– counter cultural spoiler– the store is only here because it was incentivized by the Ace hotel… And it’s owned by American Apparel. Maybe stick to Acne across the street.

Love OAK! Another great and notable addition to the DTLA/​Broadway scene. Best boutique that carries a very curated and minimalist black/​white selection of clothing, accessories, and lifestyle items. Monochromatic colors, the space is wonderfully designed and has dressing rooms in the back and shoes in the back corner with ample seating. They carry an assortment of their own label too which are pretty affordable given the high quality and design.

If you love their stores in NYC and Brooklyn, you’ll love this one.