Watching all the pageantry of fashion week especially off the runway, I realize that modern style is taking a nap this season while everyone dreams of homogeny.
Slideshow after slideshow on Style.com, Fashionista, theSatorialist, NYMag etc. everything looked the same. I was about to post a picture of street style shots from 2012 versus 2014 to make my point, but I bet everyone realizes that at the end of the day, I'm right. Hence, there's no pic with this post. It's all words and potential emojis like :-( for all the things I've seen around fashion week.
It was the usual cast of denim cut off shorts, fringe, boots, funky hats, tiny bags on straps and lots of expensive sneakers. The only difference from the previous year may be the faces. But even they all start to look the same. I did notice that more models have popped up into the street style slideshows since...let's face it, they look good in anything and in every picture.
Perhaps it's because fashion as entertainment has reached mass consumption that all the peacocks have sprouted the same feathers. Each one trying to out do each other with well-practiced poses to show off their outlandish get ups.
Or, I'm a jaded person who realizes that the bloggers were gifted the outfit, the photographers set up the "casual" shots and the real individuals who still have lots of personal style are camera shy.
YES
Wake me up when this homogenous nightmare is over and I can start dreaming again.
NO
Street-style star is no longer a viable career. We can see right through you and your bought Instagram friends.
MAYBE
The street style photographers should be taking pictures of the hairdressers, make-up artists and "real" creatives behind-the-scenes as they leave the venues in their outfits. Those are the people I want to see.
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