Horton

“This has struck a chord,” said Cassy Horton, a 37-year-old downtown resident.

“It’s kind of an ‘Enough is enough,’” said Horton, who serves on the board of directors of the Downtown Los Angeles Residents Assn., which advocates for more than 2,300 residents and community stakeholders.

Horton and other board members from the residents group have called for immediate action from city officials, both to replace the trees and to hold the perpetrator to account — in an effort to help “shift the anti-social, chaotic trajectory of our neighborhood,” the group wrote in a letter to city officials.

“We need champions; we need folks in L.A. to care about downtown and to see it as the heart of our city,” Horton said.

The Ready-to-Wear Award was presented by Stephanie Horton of Google Shopping and Law Roach — who announced with a hair flip that he was un-retiring and taking up styling again full-time.