Article: Radical chic: in his downtown L.A. penthouse, surfer dude and fashion designer Johnson Hartig lives life to the fullest.

"It's all junk," Johnson Hartig claims with a loud laugh, gesturing around his densely packed L.A. apartment. "But when you truly love things, somehow it all comes together." Life and work are often indistinguishable for Hartig, the inhabitant and decorator of these raffish rooms and a partner in Libertine, a new company that embellishes old clothing and sells it at Barneys New York and Maxfield in Los Angeles.

When Hartig isn't stitching shirts and jackets for Libertine (founded last September with partner Cindy Greene), he is still creating: he paints gouaches of flowers, builds lamps and mirrors out of seashells, and scours flea markets and thrift shops for ...

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