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Valentine’s Day at Fashion Week 2011

One of my favorite things to do in New York is to stop by Fashion Week to see what the attendees and passers-by are wearing. Today, fueled by an article in Overflow Magazine by Brooklyn blogger Erica Reitman, in which she takes inhabitants of Park Slope to task for dressing like slobs, I was particularly eager to see what the photographers were wearing. (OK, I occasionally like to photograph photographers, turning the tables, as it were. Good for humility.)

Another impetus was a wedding I attended a couple of years ago for which the photogs (there were 3 of them, but that’s another story) wore black chinos and back tee shirts sporting a photo-Ninja look that seemed to me at odds with the gowns and tuxedos their subjects were wearing.

Valentine's Day red at New York's Mercedes Benz Fashion Week
Valentine’s Day red at New York’s Mercedes Benz Fashion Week

Since Fashion Week moved from Bryant Park to Lincoln Center, there is on the one hand less buzz in the surroundings (you can’t, for example, hear the thumping of the music outside the venue) but more surrounding room for attendees, photographers, and general passers-by to hang out. And they all do.

So before I get to the subject at hand, here are come obligatory FW shots:

Dressed for Valentine's Day
Dressed for Valentine’s Day

 

Jewelry designer Crystal Streets
Jewelry designer Crystal Streets

 

Fuzzy outfit at Fashion Week
Fuzzy outfit at Fashion Week

 

George Schramm, model, collector, in a lot of fur
George Schramm, model, collector, in a lot of fur

 

Photographers at work
Photographers at work

 

Best-dressed female photographer
Best-dressed female photographer
The best-dressed male photographer there today, Karl-Edwin Guerre of swagger360.blogspot.com
The best-dressed male photographer there today, Karl-Edwin Guerre of swagger360.blogspot.com

More photos of Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, including, yes, some models.