Take Me To Church
West Hollywood Lifestyle|Fall/Winter 2017-2018

Hidden behind the creeping fig vines at 7277 Santa Monica Blvd. is CHURCH, a rare and unusual retail store created by longtime friends Rodney Burns and David Malvaney.

Kelly Carson
Take Me To Church

Inside this eclectic congregation of clothing (some of them dangling from the ceiling rafters like apparitions in the night and elegantly draped over industrial workbenches) and art, fine jewelry, sculpture, objets d’art and home décor, are things that go beyond the imagination: an ornate, metal collar made from multiple joined zippers by Autumnlin; a white, mixed-media sweater dress with cowl neck made of cotton and leather; a shredded, ribbed-cotton train by Resurrection; and a black crocodile vintage bicycle with a Dapping fixed-gear frame and 1960 Ideale saddle by DLEE.

Burns and Malvaney have been at the same West Hollywood location for nine years. They started Church after Burns left Maxfield, a West Hollywood fashion mecca famous for outfitting the 1 percent. He worked there for 17 years and built a copious “crazy clientele” until it was time for him to move on.

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