Olivia Lopez is the founder of Studio OL — a creative practice operating at the intersection of culture, design, and storytelling. With over a decade of experience in editorial working across fashion, art, and media, she develops environments that translate between physical and digital realms.
Los Angeles
@studio____ol
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STUDIO OL operates at the intersection of cultural strategy, interior styling, and storytelling. Founded by Olivia Lopez, the studio’s practice is shaped by a background in editorial writing, visual production, and curation. One of the original voices in digital fashion, Lopez began her career at the forefront of independent publishing—building platforms that grew international audiences across fashion, media, and culture.
With a foundation in Art History and over a decade in editorial, Lopez approaches storytelling and spaces through a refined visual language—shaped by a clear understanding of how meaning is constructed through context. This perspective informs a practice where stories and settings are developed in tandem, translating across physical and digital realms.
Over that decade, Lopez has worked across key cultural events—from global fashion weeks to leading art fairs and design festivals—developing a point of view directly from the environments that define cultural moments. This immersion, paired with a cross-disciplinary instinct, has produced a deep literacy in how ideas evolve and travel across disciplines.
A portrait at Seco Silver Lake by Bliss KatherineBeyond the studio, Lopez has built an editorial world on the explorations of place. Bon Weekender is a platform that explores travel through the lens of sustainability, art, and design. Lust for Los Angeles turns the city into a love letter of identity and belonging, and The Art of Travel podcast expands the inquiry into conversation, examining how our personal journeys fuel development and creative ideation. Together, they form a continuous body of work — exploring how journeys and spaces define us.
The visual identity for Seco began by hand. Lopez worked through color, form, and graphic language by hand drawing illustrations, using sketch as exploration. The result is an identity that feels deeply personal and intimate.
Art curation, interior styling and photo by Studio OL. Seco is a case study in layered references—Mexican Modernism, Milanese pasticcerias, and Parisian bar á vin—held together by a material and tonal language that runs continuously through the branding. Everything was chosen to feel collected over time rather than assembled at once.
Seco is a case study in layered references—Mexican Modernism, Milanese pasticcerias, and Parisian bar á vin—held together by a material and tonal language that runs continuously through the branding. Everything was chosen to feel collected over time rather than assembled at once.
Most recently, she worked on the creative direction, brand strategy and development of Seco—a wine bar in Silver Lake created in partnership with Santo Group.
Personal memory was the blueprint for Seco. A conversation with a neighbor turned business partner on the longing for wine bars in La Condesa, Le Marais, and the Lower East Side became the seed for Seco, Silver Lake.
AOR and interior architecture by Lena KohlThe material selections for Seco were guided by feeling over formula. Studio OL chose warm, weather-worn marble over new, tile colors that carried the memory of a stay at a bed and breakfast in Oaxaca, and curated art works and objects in conversation with the space.
Personal memory was the blueprint for Seco. A conversation with a neighbor turned business partner on the longing for wine bars in La Condesa, Le Marais, and the Lower East Side became the seed for Seco, Silver Lake.
The material selections for Seco were guided by feeling over formula. Studio OL chose warm, weather-worn marble over new, tile colors that carried the memory of a stay at a bed and breakfast in Oaxaca, and curated art works and objects in conversation with the space.
Olivia Lopez is a founding partner of Seco, a natural wine bar in Silver Lake developed in partnership with Santo Group. She led the concept direction with the group, appointing the chef and opening sommelier who set the foundation of the F&B program, oversaw the spatial design and atmosphere, brand identity, and programming into a cohesive, culture-led destination.
Every design choice considered age and warmth, opting for materials that looked as though they had traveled through time.
Seco represents the full 360 degree scope of what Studio OL does: a project conceived and carried from concept board to execution, touching every layer of the creative work: spatial, visual, cultural and editorial.
Studio OL shaped the atmosphere of the space, selecting materials, colors, objects and furniture, and commissioned site-specific artworks from within our artist community. The brand identity originated by hand: drawing out the illustrations that anchor Seco’s visual language.
Seco opened to immediate recognition and has since become a fixture in the dining scene in Los Angeles.
What connects the Studio’s work across disciplines is less a style than a sensibility. It is an instinct for how meaning is made, and how spaces, stories, and brands can drive lasting relevance through thoughtful details and storytelling. Studio OL is outcome-driven: every creative decision is made in service of an experience that lasts.
Objects in conversation, the story emerging in the edit.
