With all due respect, I'm kind of questioning the quality of "Fashion Stories" these days. What I see on fashion magazines are mixture of art-photo, edgy styling and non-sense concept. The women and men wearing nice clothes with odd make-ups and hairstyle look so vague that they fail to express any kind of beauty and elegance. To me fashion stories are already a way of modern art. They might be dreamy, but people don't need clothes when dreaming and don't dream when choosing outfit.
But clothes can sparkle in real world in right place in right moment. If you look at a few pages of "The Sartorialist Closer", Mr. Scott Schuman's second book, you'd meet many women and men who proudly of effortlessly state their own style. Here these clothes perfectly fit their own personality. From head to toe their outfits are part of who they are. There is no art, no conceptual stories but their own stories and fun for wearing something they like.
Of course they are not just the real normal people. They are one of the most remarkably stylish people as well as real and normal. So this sparkling effect that people and their clothes create might not be seen in your street. But that doesn't matter because the wonderful thing is that this is really happening. This is non-fiction and you'd likely to imagine their real stories behind the moment. When their appearances and atmosphere of outfits match their stories and personalities, they make their one and only style.
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