Last fashion week I was fortunate to meet legendary menswear icon Nick Wooster near Milk Studios. I’ve always wanted to photograph him as I know my blog skews heavily towards women’s fashion. It’s not that I don’t appreciate men’s fashion, it’s that I find it easier to approach and photograph women.
There’s something intimidating about a man who knows how to dress. In Chicago, they tend to be important people who aren’t as receptive to street-style photographers as well-dressed women are. Men at fashion week are different, and being photographed outside the shows is a way for them to raise their profile in a way that private citizens aren’t interested in.
So for all my male readers – and women who love stylish guys – here you go…
Leather jackets are perfect all the time, but especially when they’re tossed over the most incredible Proenza Schouler brocade dress as Turkish fashion editor Ece Sukan did here…
Red lips and a striped bateau top – could Katie look any more Parisian chic? People often ask me where I first fell in love with street-style. Although I discovered street-style photography through a chance encounter with Shoichi Aoki’s anthology FRUITS, it was on my first trip to Paris that I fell madly in love with the romance of street-style.
