What's the Big Fucking Pink Wall in Your Town?
LatestThere is an enormous, bright pink wall in the Los Angeles neighborhood of West Hollywood that just about every passerby has taken a photo in front of. The wall—which encloses Paul Smith’s LA store—is the #4 location on “L.A. Weekly’s 10 Spots that have been ‘Instagrammed to death,’” and has become something of a tourist attraction in the city. Not the store or the wares inside it, but the wall. The big fucking pink wall.
In a piece published Friday by Atlas Obscura, Dan Nosowitz provides a simple explanation for the wall’s popularity. “Everyone looks freaking great standing in front of it,” he writes. And he’s right.