I don't know who this dude is, but I kept seeing him hanging outside a bunch of shows with some friend of his. I think they're part of a larger scene of Fashion Week loiterers, hanging out in the proximity of the shows just on the off-chance of...what exactly? Being photographed? Being discovered? But then, it's hard to know what he was doing there. There are all sorts of people at Fashion Week who appear to have no function and then turn-out to be agents of some trend-spotting company or something. So, I won't presume to know what he was doing there. In any case, I liked the old-school street-style look of what he was wearing, and I gave him an old-school street-style backdrop to accompany it.
This is model Irene Kim, shortly after those much-coveted-after shots of her on a tractor in the street that a bunch of other photographers managed to get of her. I think she looks better with a blue, graffitied wall as a backdrop. It goes better with those Air Jordans.
The Band of Outsiders presentation took place on Wooster Street in Soho, after a particularly long day of shooting street style outside runway shows. The light was getting dim. I had to boost the ISO on my camera up to 400 or so. And I'd gotten tired of positioning myself next to the band of photographers clustered next to the entrance. I walked up the street to a well-graffitied corner that I thought would make a good backdrop and waited. Several minutes later, model, television personality, and street-style ham Irene Kim showed up and put on a brief show for myself, Koo, Nam, and a couple other Korean street-style photographers. Here are some of the many shots I got from that. I'll have more of Irene Kim's antics to show in the coming weeks. Let me just say for now that Kim is killing it. She's forcing the fashion world to pay attention to her by grabbing the attention of its most prominent street-style photographers. I missed the now-infamous shots of Kim posing on a tractor that you've very possibly already seen on The Cut or on Style.com or somewhere. But I got Kim sliding on ice, Kim running up and down the street in front of Prabal Gurung, and Kim posing in front of a couple of other heavily-graffitied walls. Stay tuned.
