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.

Jes - Rittenhouse

This is the last entry from Philly for the next few days. I'll be in Boston fashion blogging the Popular Culture Association Conference starting tomorrow. So stay tuned for the hottest trends in academic chic!

Shooting Jes today, I realized I never think to ask anyone what they're wearing or what it means to them. That's my next plan of action. It's good form for a fashion blogger, no doubt, and rich ethnographic data for an anthropologist. Plus, how am I possibly ever going to get swag if I don't start dropping brand names? Not that I'm after free stuff. I'm just interested to know what it takes to get it.

Bet you didn't even notice she has a nose ring. They are suddenly everywhere again, along with Wayfarers, '70s style vintage leather, and colorful knitted items. What I find interesting about Jes' style is that the individual elements are rock 'n' roll, hippy, and alternative, and yet taken together, and perhaps this is the key point, mixed with a more conventional hairstyle, they read as something else entirely.