What I love about fashion week especially Paris (a little
late in the day to post about fashion week but that’s okay) is going through
endless images of street style photography by Tommy Ton and Scott Schuman and
let’s not forget Billl Cunningham, the man who literally invented the concept.
Whilst designers may showcase what is going to be the next hottest trend inside
highly guarded venues, it’s equally amazing to see people outside the shows exhibiting
pure sartorial elegance.
Some may be fame whores or as Suzy Menkes quoted in her
controversial article The Circus of Fashion “the celebrity circus of people who
are famous for just being famous” and pretty much dress up only to be
photographed, I for one think the circus is fun. I enjoy watching the likes of
Anna Dello Russo (despite rumours of her changing four times a day for the
shows), Giovanna Battaglia and numerous others dressed up in their beautiful
clothes. It doesn’t matter to me that they do it to be photographed or
whatever, for me it’s just about seeing how people put together their outfits; it’s
purely a work of art. While most people show up wearing the current season,
there are those that even come wearing something that may even be 10 years old.
Old or new, the sheer beauty is the way they wear it.
There’s no denying that you see people in the wackiest of
outfits hoping to turn heads and get clicked by a famous photographer but there
are also those who are simply being themselves and demonstrate impeccable
taste, style and class because that’s just who they are. And that’s what street
style to me is all about.
Here are some of my favorite Tommy Ton shots for style.com during the Fall shows.
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