//// Winter inspiration (wish it would be spring — but the reality bites)
Posted on | February 26, 2010 | 3 Comments
Some of you might have noticed that my winter everyday style has quite a lot masculine elements — and when I browsed my inspiration folder I noticed that many of the wintery images indeed are of men.
I also noticed that The Sartorialist still is my favorite street style blog. Scott is sometimes claimed being somewhat conservative — but personally I value the variety, his attention to subtle detail and his overall ambitious take on street photography. The Sartorialist is never a cavalcade of stereotypic hipsters wearing the IT-items of the season (occasional disease of Nordic street style blogs) and I can’t really blame it on focusing just beautiful people, there’s always something remarkable in the outfits and personal style.
I know that I have to widen my perspective to Asian street style… …I truly have a fascination to especially Japanese aesthetics and although I feel total alien to the culture (never been there, never actually known anyone from Japan) I think that I have been somewhat influenced subconsciously by the popular culture imagery. Any suggestions of great sites?
One thing I really value in The Sartorialist that Scott actually photographs all age groups. Maybe not in the actual demographic proportion — but all age groups are represented whatsoever. This image is one of my definite favorites of all winter outfits I’ve ever seen — and should be added to Wikipedia, key words aging gracefully.
All images from The Sartorialist. Thank you, Scott!
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February 27th, 2010 @ 3:12 pm
I think what makes Sartorialist so cool is that the photos do not just depict style/fashion but stylish people. You might look model-perfect and be wearing the latest fashions but not be stylish, which in these pictures is never the case. All Sartorialist photos to me are photographs of people, not of clothes. Your particular choice pleases me in that there I see it again, the clever pairing of camel brown and grey.
February 27th, 2010 @ 5:58 pm
Hi, I like your blog and I am a fan of The Sartorialist too, I love Mr.Scott’s works and I bought his book as well,hehe…
I would like to share the Japanese websites to you, here they are:
http://www.fashionsnap.com/
http://www.dropsnap.jp/pc/snap.php
I hope you will like them
And I am actually a new blogger, I found your website from Chictopia. This is my blog,
http://laneandreverie.blogspot.com/
feel free to have a look? I am going to link you to my blog too, thank you
March 2nd, 2010 @ 6:56 pm
^Wow, thanks a lot! Those sites are great! I will definitely visit your blog.