Inspiration Overload: Street Fashion

Images by Prutha Raithatha

Dress: Tangdance; Tights: Calvin Klein; Shoes: Vintage platforms with cut off stockings

Or should I call it Subway Fashion. I had gone to Williamsburg on Saturday with a few friends just for fun and while on our way back to Manhattan, I spotted Joanne on the train. I was so engrossed in conversation with my friends that the entire ride I didn’t notice her and just when her stop arrived and she started to walk out I noticed her entire outfit and her hair and bolted out of the train, missing the shutting doors by a string [I swear, it was that dramatic if you watched it in slow mo.]. My poor friends  had no idea why I ran out of the train in the middle of my sentence. Lol… Oh well, now they know.

Anyway I jumped in front of Joanne [almost shaking] and asked her for pictures and she very graciously [and slightly suspiciously] let me. I love her style!! Its so unique and different and yet comfortable. I adore what she’s done with those vintage platforms and covering them up with stockings. The one-piece legging boot effect is brilliant. And the cut of the shirt dress and that HAIR!!! I don't know what kind of a hairstyle that is called but I think its brilliant. And even her makeup was perfect with those dots below the eyes. She looks like a doll doesn’t she? And who thinks of using old tool bags as a purse? I am not kidding when I say, all these amazing, super creative people I have spotted on the streets on a regular basis make me feel like I literally belong in a Gap outlet mall catalogue compared to their ingenuity.

Thanks so much Joanne for posing for me. Joanne Petit Frere is a jewelry designer and I saw some  designs of her online and I highly recommend you all to check it out too. Really!!

Blue Skies and Bubble Flies: Personal Fashion

Images by NURBS

Dress: 1970’s from Vintage Variety; Shoes: Ashish for TopShop; Ring: TopShop; Gold Headband: Random [from like 10 years ago or more]

      Who needs sunshine when you have the brightest dress on you J? Just having a little fun on my rooftop with bubbles and branches and whatever else we could find there.  I love this gold necklace that I sometimes wear as a headband. It’s a simple addition to a dress like this, which you know you can’t overdo. Keeping it simple.

    Weekend was fun. I got some cool street fashion shots I shall share soon.  Played Taboo and Pictionary at a friends place last night which was great!! And am super duper excited to go for a Roger Waters concert this week at Madison Square Garden. Life is good isn’t it?

What have you guys been upto? 

Little Black Book Lost: Street Fashion

Images by Prutha Raithatha

I lost my little black book!! I am devastated… My book in which in write down all the info of all the people I shoot on the street L …ok so not as dramatic as loosing my “Real” little black book, but in this age of Facebook it really is impossible to loose contact with anyone, however my sacred stash of street info is irreplaceable. Please enjoy these pictures of these 2 guys I shot just randomly walking down the street and they came back to find me and asked me to take more pictures of them. Visiting from the Netherlands I think, they were soo much fun!! Love both their hair and shoes and those beige pants and the cool beach-y look.

  Also a little announcement. One of the pictures Anjali took of me during one of our shoots is being auctioned off for a fundraiser [see image below]. 10% of all the funds raised will be donated to CARE Foundation’s flood relief efforts in Pakistan. Isn’t that awesome? I am so thrilled that some part of the work that we are doing for the blog is helping someone in someway.

You guys have all seen Anjali’s fab work on this blog and I just have to say that I really do think that she is incredibly talented as a photographer and an artist. She knows her stuff and Fashion Photography. It’s her passion to shoot shoes and I really wish someday she lands that Jimmy Choo / Louboutin add campaign.  Good luck with the event Anjali.

All the people in NYC who would like to attend a cool Art event where you can buy some really awesome art for way lesser cost than usual for a great cause are invited. Please check out the event details below and buy your tickets now.

SAWCC ART AUCTION BENEFIT:

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

6:30 - 8:30pm

The Guild Art Gallery

(45 W 21st St., between 5th and 6th Ave)

www.sawcc.org

Image by Anjali Bhargava for the Auction

Kitty Cat

Images by Prutha Raithatha

Top: H&M; Shorts: Vintage; Necklace and bracelets: Street; Belt; Forever 21; Shoes: Converse

Walking around one weekend I dropped by my favorite shoe store Irregular Choices and found myself extremely disheartened as I left the store with a lot desired and little acquired due to ultra streamlined budgets [read: sever brokenness!!].

Just outside the store I found Kitty trying to learn how to skateboard. Loving her very feminine bad boy look on the go, I had to stop her. It’s a simple look of a tee with denim shorts I know. But I like the idea of converse with big girly jewelry. Takes the comfy look we all wear to a fashionable level instantly.

Next time I saw Kitty she had big curly hair and I asked her how it happened in a matter of 2 weeks and she answered, “Girl, it’s a wig”. My afro wig on day to day basis confirmed, I am on to finding my very own in brunette!!

Fur-ness: Personal Fashion

Images by NURBS.

Leather Skirt/ Shoes/Fur Shood: Zara; Shirt: Target [men’s section]; Sunglasses: Ray Ban; Watch: Diesel

Turns out its finally over L . My favorite season is over. I am beyond deprived-of-chocolate kind of depressed!! I mean seriously, I love the warm weather and I love the goddamn skyscrapers. Where the hell am I supposed to go?

Not that I am still giving up on my short dresses/ shorts/ skirts, but I am [for now] adding just a few layers to keep me from having uncomfortable protrusions on my tees all day long due to being too cold …lol… yup I see people staring at them while talking to me.

Loving this super soft faux fur hood scarf [hence called SHOOD, the Zara sales person told me]. Please expect to see it many more times in my posts. This flannel shirt is something I bought coz I was looking for a HUGE comfortable boys shirt to LIVE in and I found the perfect one!! And I know the color combo of this outfit is a little unusual but that’s why I like it. Leather is all over and this color of skirt is perfect. And I do love leather. RARELY do I find bottoms in leather in my size. It’s really really really effing hard to find any bottoms for us size 10 plus people. ITS SOOO UNFAIR!! 

Got the RayBans as a b’day gift from a really good friend. I <3 him for knowing exactly what I would like for a bday presents. Sometimes good things come in small packages ;-)

OH OH and one last thing. I bought new iPhone coz I sweated all over my old phone at the marathon and destroyed the screen. And I love it [but I don’t think my cat does.. I keep clicking her pics all day long]. And I spotted John Mayer and Casanova [from Project Runway] in my area this week. I didn’t take pictures cause I don’t like to act star struck and all. I am like that only, deal with it…mwah!!!

Emerald: Street Fashion

Images by Prutha Raithatha

The people I find most interesting to shoot for their fashion are people who have a somewhat original point of view that is only their own and no one else's. I see a lot of street fashion blogs with a lot of very beautiful people wearing expensive beautiful clothes and shoes, but more than half of them i find dull and not original or even remotely creative. I can see that outfit put together in any J.Crew catalogue so I wonder why it needs to be documented in a form of a blog if its so generic. But I shall not dwell on that anymore. I am glad I find the craziest, most creative people on the streets. They inspire me to push myself and step out of my comfort zone. I am sure Lady Gaga will approve ;-)

Emerald is definitely one of those people. Her raw layered outfit is just what I mean by a personal sense of individual trend-free style. She shredded that long thrifted Kenneth Cole Dress her self and FYI she bought that dress for only 50 cents. Love the cardigan on it with one long sleeve and the other a tank. The Lace circle scarf + foxhead+ chains she put together were all found in trash and hence FREE!! She cut her own hair and there is really no limit to how much she inspires me. Love the ram skull ring and the skull bead bracelets. 

You can check out her cool blog at Le Reclus Noir Nu.

Peace out Lovers!!

Hipstamatic: Personal Fashion

Images by Anjali Bhargava

Dress: 1970’s from Vintage Variety; Shoes: See by Chloe; Necklace: India

Wanted to attempt something different with the pictures and I kept bugging Anjali for a vintage look for the images. She came up with this brilliant idea to use an iphone app for this shoot. I totally and utterly love the outcome!! Its sooo perfect!!

The dress is one of those that would go perfect with go-go boots. I loved it so much when I saw it in the store that even though it was a size too small, I had to have it and bought it.

BTW, today I went to Philadelphia to cheer my Marathon team who were running the Philly Half Marathon and ended up running the race myself. Super Excited  about finishing my 13.1 miles!!