Spotted: NYFW February '11 Pt. 2

All photos by Alice Taranto. Click all images to zoom.
After the ADAM show, I went out into the New York Fashion Week tent and the central plaza square of Lincoln Center and got my shutterbug on. There's no shortage of eccentric fashion folk (read: nuts) out there, and they all gather under one roof - well, tent - for fashion week. This was my first experience with real street style photography (meaning, the kind where I actually approach the person and ask to take his/her photo vs. just trying to get a clear shot before the person crosses the street.)

Above: A photo I took of what I think is a similarly arresting quality as the images of Karlie Kloss on the runway at Lanvin last season. It's really a shock of red. Be sure to check out the foot-long feathers in her cap. The woman gave me her card - you can check out her work at her Etsy shop, Diva Wear Designs.

I spotted this character amidst the crowds - it's not hard to understand why. When I asked him if I could take his picture, he said sure and that he's going to be featured in the Bill Cunningham New York documentary film. I had no idea this guy is a style icon until I came home and looked him up. Check out stylist Shail Upadhya dominating Bill Cunningham's Sunday Styles "On The Street" photo column one week. Also peep a video of Shail here, where he explains an outfit and talks about his clients, whom he dresses in such fashions that he says "make the velvet ropes part for them."

 As I was exiting the tent, three columnar blondes caught my eye in my peripheral vision. I'm not sure who these people are, but they are quite attention-commanding when they stand in a 6' group like this. I especially love the bold red outfit. Edit: See my post here to find out who these ladies are!

I couldn't resist snapping a pic of this guy. He said he dresses like this all the time, going around New York. I asked if his jewelry was from Arizona, and he said perhaps, and that it was all Native American. I wonder how many animals he is wearing? In any case, this guy seems like a trip. P.S. - he's the most appropriately dressed person I saw (if not overly so). Some fashion week attendees seem to have forgotten it's onlt February and still around freezing outside. Edit: See that this same "Mountain Man" caught Racked's eye!

Three black-clad fashionable people I found and asked/photographed. They were waiting around in the Lincoln Center plaza for their car service. Daphne identified the girl's shoes as Gareth Pugh.

Happy Fashion Week!
Alice

Spotted: NYFW February '11 Pt. 2