Ol' Timey Mustache in an Ol' Timey American City

Johnny, Boylston St, Boston. We share the status of the California to East Coast transplant. Boston, apparently, is  importing its hipsters.

Fashion People are Fashionable

Cesar is a fashion photographer I ran into in front of the FCUK on Newbury St. in Boston this afternoon.  Roughly half the people I shoot turn out to work in fashion in some way. Figures, I guess.

Cesar, Newbury St, Boston. I appreciate, and relate to, the stylized hunch.

Re-Staging Style

Fashion is not just about clothes. It's also about pose, posture, and the stylization of the ordinary. For a fashion blogger this poses an interesting problem. Often, what captures my attention about someone is not so much what they're wearing per se, but how they're wearing it at that moment, the way they transform themselves and the situation around them through clothes, pose, and gesture. Here are some of my efforts today to re-stage my subjects' own stylization of a moment.

Leslie, in the Harvard stop of the Red Line.

Anne, Newbury Street.

Breaking character after our re-staging.

Harvard Punk

I expected something different from my afternoon in Harvard Square, tweed-clad gentleman with tidy beards and caps, perhaps. But this works too, especially since I'm speaking on a panel on authenticity in punk tomorrow. 

Ali, just off Harvard Square, Cambridge, Mass.

Leopard-print theme maintained throughout (including a scarf hanging from the back of her belt).

Dispatches from Boston

Here are some of my shots from walking around Boston today. Strange shooting in a city I don't know, but turned out well. Beats the hell out of snapping tourist photos. 

Wiley from Discovision Vintage, Newbury Street. He volunteered some of the details of his wardrobe, doing my work for me. Here they are:

Hat: Georih
Tie: Vintage Pierre Cardin

Shoes: Fluevog

Laura, Prudential Center Walkway. Check out her band, Holiday Mountain, at holidaymountainmusic.com.