LA This Week: Seven Places Worth Going

Late summer into fall is stacked this year — markets, a returning street fair, a fashion week, and one gallery walk that just picked up new real estate. Here's what's on the calendar and why it's worth showing up for.

DTLA ArtNight runs the first Thursday of every month, and the September 3rd edition is worth flagging specifically — the walk expanded into the Fashion District in August, and September is the first full month of it, with stops like the Bendix Building, Kelly O'Brien Atelier x Not For Resale LA, CRE8, Mary at The STILE Hotel, and Zenith Gallery. Free, 6 to 10 PM, more than 25 galleries typically debut new work the same night. A gallery walk that now runs through the Fashion District is exactly the kind of overlap this publication exists for.

Got Sole LA lands September 19th at the LA Convention Center, noon to 6 PM. It's built as a buy/sell/trade convention for sneakers, trading cards, and collectibles, with streetwear and vintage running alongside — closer to a swap meet with vendor booths than a trade show floor. This is the kind of crowd that dresses for the event itself, which tends to make it a denser concentration of deliberate outfits per square foot than almost anywhere else on this list.

Long Beach Antique Market runs the third Sunday of every month, and September 20th brings the usual 800+ vendors across 20 acres at Veterans Memorial Stadium, 6:30 AM to 2 PM. Vintage clothing and Native American jewelry sit alongside furniture and general antiques. It's technically outside LA proper, but it gets mentioned in the same breath as Rose Bowl and Melrose for a reason.

Abbot Kinney Festival returns September 27th after sitting out 2024 and 2025 — the board pointed to a sponsorship slowdown as the reason it paused. This year brings back the format that's defined it for close to 40 years: hundreds of vendors along the boulevard, live music, food, a beer garden, free to attend, 10 AM to 6 PM. Two years is a long time for a street fair this size to be gone. Worth showing up for the comeback alone.

Los Angeles Fashion Week runs October 16th through 18th at The Lot Studios in West Hollywood, the same week LA Market Week wraps at the California Market Center a few miles away — back-to-back trade and runway events that make mid-October the densest fashion week LA gets. The sidewalk outside the venue between shows is usually as worth watching as what's on the runway, same as it is everywhere.

Rose Bowl Flea Market lands September 13th — it runs the second Sunday of every month, and has since a version of it started November 10, 1968, when R.G. Canning and Bill Tunnell put the stadium's empty parking lots to use. That first run drew about 200 vendors. It's now more than 2,500 vendors spread across the stadium grounds, pulling an estimated 20,000 buyers a month, and the nickname 'Flea Market of the Stars' didn't come from nowhere.

Silverlake Flea runs Saturdays and Sundays, currently at Blueground/Reframe Studios in Atwater Village, where it's been since this spring. Founder Fiora Boes started it in the parking lot of her gallery, Ghetto Gloss, and the market has moved three times since — Silver Lake, then Echo Park, now Atwater. The name stayed through every move. Free entry, and a clothing selection that leans hard into '90s and Y2K vintage.

Seven events, four neighborhoods, one convention center, and a boulevard that's getting its festival back. Bring a camera, or at least look up from your phone while you're at it.