A blog recommended to me by my friend Si Sherlock. It's a sort of documentation of fashion in NYC.
It really reminds me of a feature which I saw on BBC's The Culture Show a few months back, for which I have been searching high and low (so if anybody can help me out? I would be eternally grateful!). A pair of artists/photographers decided to photograph the different "tribes" that were apparent in the everyday fashion world of big cities. They took their subjects into a locally rented studio and photographed them in a pose which reflected their "personalities", each member of this tribe would indeed have the same fitting pose. Tribes included such people as, rich Japanese girls with a designer handbag, the student male with a cross over back pack, the power-dressing over 30s woman, the goth etc. Yes some of it was contrived, and they made their subjects fit their own "brief", as it were; but the end result looked brilliant. So many people thinking they dress differently, and yet, they fit so perfectly into a tribe with so many other people.
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Hi there
The Culture Show item was about Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek, and their show and book Exactitudes. More about them here:
http://deepinvogue.blogspot.com/2008/04/exactitudes.html
We're putting lots of material from our archive on the Culture Show website, so depending on the rights position I'd like to add the Exactitudes item - it was really good. You can see what video we have on the site so far here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cultureshow/videos/
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