The Sartorialist was a fashion insider in New York who now takes photographs of people he sees on the street (as a result he has received quite astonishing accolades: his eye is acute, his vision perceptive). He commented that it was all too easy to take pictures of people looking bad in their clothes. He could have been talking about Hong Kong, where what you could call neo-infantilism all too often seems to govern the way women dress, with lace frills, Hello Kitty, naive jewellery, and unintentionally funny garbled t-shirt slogans often featuring heavily - see for example:
TOO ORANGEY FOR PORN
I AM FULL STOMACH
SUNNY DAY HE IS WAIT FOR BUS
or
I AM PERFECTLY FLOWER
all of which irony-free statements I have seen on the streets of Hong Kong. Far harder, though, to find people who look good in their clothes.
His photographs are wonderful; the choices are sometimes interesting, occasionally perplexing, but always thoughtful and often accompanied by succint observations. He's currently featuring amazing pictures from a recent trip to New Delhi. Definitely worth a look.
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Funnily enough, I was considering doing a blog post on him. I discovered that website after you and J left after Christmas..one of you had just been looking at it. It is wonderful and inspiring, and makes me want to throw out most of my wardrobe and dress for me, rather than how I think I should dress. Hmmm, more to say on that subject. Perhaps I should do that post after all.
C
Oops, I should be trying to direct more traffic to my blog. Only, I haven't posted anything since saying I was going to be more prolific.
C (again)
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