New York Street Style: Trenchcoat and Fur Collar, Outside IFBcon

Models Making Faces

Chloe Nørgaard

Aline Weber

Cara Delevigne

At some point in the not-so-distant past, models, fed up with being constantly asked for their photos outside runway events, began making funny faces at the cameras. Some of these appeared on Vogue.com and other repositories of high fashion street style, and it quickly became a thing. Now photographers often ask models to make funny faces at them. In the case of supermodel Cara Delevigne (bottom photo — i.e. the only one not making a face in these pics), photographers mob her from all angles, calling out insistently "Make a face for us, Cara!" What began as a small act of resistance has become a new requirement of the job.    

New York Street Style: Outside J. Crew

New York Street Style: Faux fur and lace, IFBcon

Philadelphia Street Style: Sophi Reaptress, Chestnut St

Sophi Reaptress is a local clothing designer, whose edgy personal aesthetic matches her designs. She has some very cool leggings, tops, and accessories on display (and for purchase) at sophireaptress.com.Check out the spike and Swarovski-crystal encrusted eyepatch! I ran into her in front of the Buffalo Exchange on Chestnut St. 

Philadelphia Street Style: Tilly Grimes, Walnut St

Tilly Grimes is a costume designer for theater, opera, and film. She works mostly in Dublin, London, and New York, but I managed to catch her on the streets of Philly. Amazing who you meet when you start picking out interesting-looking people to randomly walk up to and photograph! I recommend it. 

Philadelphia Street Style: Em, Walnut St

Scanning photo releases at the office the other day, I realized it had been almost a month since I'd been out shooting. It didn't feel like it. I've been busily writing and posting and hardly noticed. But this past Wednesday I finally felt the need to get out there again. Here are the first of several new posts from the streets of Philly.

Outside Jeremy Scott

Outside Alberta Ferretti

Chiara Ferragni, Outside Philosophy di Alberta Ferretti

Chiara Ferragni is the superstar blogger behind The Blonde Salad. I caught her outside the Roseland Ballroom in New York on the second to last day of Fashion Week. And by I, I mean myself and a whole mess of other street style bloggers. For insight into how infested with street style bloggers fashion week is these days, watch this cool documentary on style.com.

The other day, I had a long, really fascinating conversation via Google video Chat with Nadia of the critical fashion/media blog Listen Girlfriends. She asked me if shooting at Fashion Week had changed the way I look at blogs at all. I told her, yes. It had. And one of the concrete ways in which it's changed how I look at blogs is that I pay far more attention to the direction of peoples' eyes in their pictures. I used to assume that when someone was looking away from the camera in a street style pic, it was a stylistic choice of the photographer. Now I tend to assume it means that the subject was, in fact, posing for a different photographer. That, after all, is the reality of shooting at fashion weeks. Even the biggest name photographers aren't necessarily able to get exclusive shoots of style icons without other people jumping in.

In these pictures of Chiara, it's quite easy to tell when she's posing for me and when she's posing for someone else. It's all in the direction of the eyes. Once you start paying attention to it, it's hard not to notice.