Eek! Fashion week is almost here! Are you ready? We borrowed some useful and hilarious tips from style veterans Garance Dore, Rebecca Minkoff, The Man Repeller, and more to prep for the fashion battlefield, including how to get photographed by street style photographers… and an inspirational video you won’t regret watching.
Rebecca Minkoff NYFW Bootcamp Video.
From Garance: Streetstyle photographers react to the most simple of stimuli. So to excite their instinct, make sure to:
• Wear heels. Super high ones OR/AND super bizarre OR/AND super colorful. If the heel is made of an old doorknob / legos / a stuffed animal, +2 pts.
• Wear something wtf. —> Wear a shoe as a hat, make a skirt from your shower curtain, steal some construction worker’s uniform to go with your Jil Sander plastic bag. It’s miraculous how well these things work.
• Wear the pièce de resistance of the season. This season, it’s :
- A long skirt (make sure you have the burst of wind to go with)
- Anything from Prada.
- An enormous fur
- Leopard print (a little last season, but still works)
And now for the most important part, ATTITUDE. Here are our favorite tips from Garance:
• Look busy! Have a fancy invitation in your hand (—> you’ve got somewhere to be)(You don’t have one? Just grab pretty much any half-sheet of paper and you’re set) and walk fast (—> your driver’s waiting on you, you’re so important) with the sense that you just want to be left alone, but not too much now (be careful to keep moderation).
• Hail a cab like a ballerina would dance Swan Lake. Long lines ladies!
READ MORE tips from Garance’s blog on… and what to do if you’re really desperate! Garance Dore
Our streetstyle crush of the moment, Hanaa Ben Abdesslem. JENESEQUA
Author: Alexis Sargent Original content: Garance Dore Video: Rebecca Minkoff.
