Chris Printup, a founding father of the streetwear model Born X Raised, which grew to become a fixture in Los Angeles’s vogue scene, died on Wednesday morning at a hospital in Albuquerque. He was 42.

The trigger was accidents from a automotive accident in Albuquerque on Sunday, a consultant of the model mentioned.

Mr. Printup, generally known as “Spanto,” based Born X Raised with Alex Erdmann, generally known as “2Tone.” The model rapidly drew the town’s inventive class to occasions just like the Born X Raised Sadie Hawkins Winter Formal.

“Born X Raised is like a love letter to the city that I once grew up in, that’s gone now,” Mr. Printup, who was Native American, mentioned in an episode of “The Canvas: Los Angeles,” a documentary sequence in regards to the metropolis’s artists. “This is me. This is who I’ll always be. And if you don’t like it, we don’t care.”

Born on June 6, 1981, within the Los Angeles neighborhood of Venice to Butch Mudbone of the Seneca Nation, and Cheryl Printup of the White Mountain Apache Tribe, Mr. Printup skilled poverty as a baby, biking out and in of juvenile detention and dealing as a drug vendor, he mentioned within the documentary. Ultimately, he wound up in a supermax jail, he mentioned, the place he determined to begin Born X Raised.

The label, Mr. Printup mentioned within the documentary — a part of which came about on the set of a industrial shoot — was born out of the will to “shine a light” on the Los Angeles of his childhood, particularly Venice earlier than it was gentrified, which he described because the antithesis of Tinseltown. “I had an idea and a feeling and an emotion and I turned it into this,” he mentioned, including that he had by no means studied clothes design, or dreamed of visiting vogue occasions in Europe. “There was no plan, there was no business model.”

He labored for a time as a craftsman within the sheet metallic employee’s union, Native 33, and mentioned that he had began the model as a “way to channel my frustration and anger.” In 2013, he and his companion began promoting the road at Union, a Los Angeles clothes retailer.

Shortly after beginning the model, Mr. Printup acquired a most cancers analysis. He underwent chemotherapy and misplaced 100 kilos and his hair, he wrote in a submit on the model’s Instagram in December. He labored all over the therapy.

“What I’m getting at is life is hard for everyone and I want anyone to know, that if you’re feeling discouraged or like life has given you too many handicaps — ITS OKAY. you’re going to be fine things will get better,” Mr. Printup mentioned within the submit, including that he had gone into remission.

Mr. Erdmann, the enterprise companion, described Mr. Printup by cellphone as an “indefatigable” pressure of nature who was gregarious and beloved by these he labored with.

“Every second day he had breath to do things, he would,” he mentioned.

He mentioned that Mr. Printup had been in Albuquerque for a conventional Native American ceremony, and that his father had died simply two months earlier after an analogous ceremony, additionally in a automotive accident. Born X Raised will seemingly maintain an occasion to honor Mr. Printup, Mr. Erdmann mentioned.

“We’re not going to fold. We’re not going to stop telling this story. We’re just going to change how we do it, because we no longer have him,” Mr. Erdmann mentioned.

Mr. Printup is survived by his mom; his spouse, Anna Printup; a daughter, Marilyn A. Printup; two sons, David R. Garcia and Carter Printup-Specht; three stepbrothers, Cai Printup, Casey Printup and Willie Mudbone; a stepsister, Zyanya Mudbone; and his stepmother, Caroline Mudbone, a model consultant mentioned.

In “The Canvas,” Mr. Printup famous that had all the time been haunted by self doubt, however had persevered by way of it. “When are they going to figure out that I am not good at this?” he mentioned. “I think anybody intelligent questions themself.”

Christine Hauser contributed reporting.