The Sartorialist

While Scott Schuman's appearance last September at the Hagedorn Gallery offered fertile style blogging ground, his Savannah College of Art and Design Atlanta lecture tonight proved informative. Now we know that Bruce Webber and Chuck Close inspire him. He rides his bike around Manhattan in search of the stylish. The resulting portraits he sees less as reportage than romantic points of departure that ask, where does this story go from here? While not a studio photographer, he recently put a lighting kit in his New York digs to see what affect learning about it would have on his street photography. In response to my question of how he approaches people, Schuman said that he doesn't mind hearing 'no' and that it sometimes spurs him to try a bit harder. Interesting. Like me, he would enjoy having more women of a certain age appear on his blog. For the complete schedule of SCAD Style 2011, please follow this link.

Save The Date: Monday, April 25

For those of you who missed Scott Schuman at the Hagedorn Gallery last September, or were there but cannot let another Atlanta encounter with The Sartorialist pass you by, be sure to attend his SCAD lecture at 6pm Monday.

Homage to The Sartorialist

An inspiration to this blog and countless others, Scott Schuman's worldly look at street styles, The Sartorialist, is a modern success story. Says he, "When I worked in the fashion industry (15 years), I always felt that there was a disconnect between what I was selling in the showroom and what I was seeing real people (really cool people) wearing in real life." That instinct has been recognized as one of Time Magazine's Top 100 Design Influencers. GQ publishes his monthly column and his photo book is must reading for the style conscious, some hundred of whom converged upon the Hagedorn Gallery last night to meet him.