Unoriginal me isn't going to be the only one who'll be doing flick throughs with The Sartorialist book, which landed on my desk a few days ago. It is a picture tome, but unlike other picture tomes, it's novel-sized in width and height but thick like a dictionary, making it a little hard to hold down, scan or photograph. So ensues a predictable quickie video flickthrough, which actually was longer than I had anticipated given that there's 500 pages to go through. What can't be seen in the flickthrough is the quality of paper/scent of it (both very nice to feel and smell...) and the little excerps of text where Scott Schuman attaches selected anecdotes to images, odes to his favourite subjects to shoot such as Giovanna, Julie, Carine and Eva (all on first names basis of course...), and slightly defensive mini-explanations to some of the criticisms his blog gets...such as only shooting 'fashion' people (he doesn't really, when looking at the breadth of images as a whole...) and shooting people who can afford expensive labels (unfounded by the $5 Prada-esque lab coat guy in Stockholm). Text-loving me of course would have loved a few more tidbits but images are the name of the streetstyle game and I've already marked out a few for revisiting on a day when the brain is feeling a bit uninspired...
(Btw, purely accidental that Vimeo has chosen this particular shot of Jefferson and Anouck to freezeframe at... now I'll have a permanent reminder on the blog for a while that I've got work work work to do!)
