cara delevingne, take it down a notch.

i think we left the literal interpretation of "fierce" back in the 90's.

a job i don't want....

(video still courtesy of garance dore's "pardon my french" series) 

i can't express how much i would've hated to be a model.

nyfw #15 - the end

this is the very last of my street style photos from new york fashion week.

i wanted to give you guys an idea of what it's actually like outside the tents.

there are many little klatches of women, either looking very busy with their phones, or intensely discussing schedules (professional, extra curricular, personal), or both.

and even more groups of young girls rushing out of some of their first shows, and back to their offices. they're sort of giddy (these two on the left), and sort of trying to look cool (the two on the right, with the "fuck you, who are you taking my photo" faces).

and then there are the crowds of street style photographers.

when a show isn't just about to start, or just ending, the plaza is pretty quiet. the photographers actually wind up photographing each other, out of boredom.

then, when the show finishes, all the photographers rush to get the best subjects, pull them aside and start clicking away:

(not sure who the photographer is, but the subject is nadia, from froufrouu)

or, they just gang up and all photograph the same person at once....

(i had just finished taking this guy's photo, when all the other photographers started to gang up)

spending the day around this kind of craziness is definitely something that i enjoy doing for a few hours, a couple of times a year!

*** if you want to see some of my other street style photos from nyfw, check out my facebook page!

huge huge fashion pet peeve

as i've mentioned before, i spent most of my school years studying very seriously to become a professional ballet dancer...

like a lot of girls, when i got to be able 16 or 17 i realized that the likelihood of having a successful career in ballet was looking pretty slim, and that the other parts of life that i'd been missing out on were looking pretty good. i quit dancing, and have never regretted it.

but all of that training has left me with a huge pet peeve that comes up with regularity in fashion ads and editorials:

the non-dancer, styled to look like one.

yes, many fashion models are thin enough to fit into some of the same clothes as ballet dancers. generally, that is where the resemblance ends. dancers train for many many years to have the posture, flexibility, musculature and grace that they do.

most models skulk around town with some of the worst posture you've ever seen.

they just don't hold themselves like dancers.

here are a few images from a recent photo shoot featuring lingerie by john galliano, which highlight this perfectly (pay particular attention to the shoes):

(photos via stop stealing my look)

if you want a girl that looks comfortable in pointe shoes, then hire a dancer. or at the very least, a model who has SOME dance training.

pointe shoes aren't meant to fit anywhere nearly like street shoes. and they're incredibly uncomfortable. these are clearly too big on her, and are flopping around as if her foot is about to fall of her leg. it's terrible.

i know that stylists and editors will never stop requesting these kinds of shoots, so it's something i'm going to (continue to) live with....

but i'm not promising that i won't write another rant on it here.