In Paris outside the S/S 2012 Balmain show…I saw a young French boy walking past, holding his mother’s hand. He appeared fascinated with the crowd that was exiting the show…and he seemed to be listening in to random conversations and taking it all in…until suddenly, I saw a look of confusion come over his face…and he turned to his mother and asked her (in French of course), “Mom, what’s a hottie?” They stopped walking…and then, with great certainty, she looked her son straight in the eye…and pointed to the girl whose photos you see here…and said, “There son, THERE is a hottie.” He nodded…and smiled knowingly…and they walked on. (OK actually this didn’t happen. But it should have.) x
Hi! So many photos to show you guys from the recent Fashion Month – New York, London, Milan, Paris…plus I want to mix in some brand new photos that I’ve been shooting as well. I’ve been back in NYC (from Europe) for about 12 days now and I’m just starting to feel like I’m recovering…it was a serious fashion hangover, let me tell you! It was well worth the effort required though because I think the photos from the past month or so are among the best photos I’ve ever shot…well, they’re certainly some of my personal favorites if nothing else. Here’s Ginta (above) doing the blogger’s walk in the Tuileries at sunset on 9.30.11. xx
Hi everyone – those of you who follow me on Twitter may remember that back in July I did an editorial shoot for Marie Claire Spain. Well, I wasn’t allowed to post the photos from the shoot at the time…BUT…now that the issue has recently been released…I wanted to share the pics with you guys! We shot the story in Paris on the morning of the last day of the couture…and it was probably one of my best experiences ever working on a shoot. We had a stylist and hair and make-up artists of course…but we kept the feel of the shoot firmly rooted in the street style arena. Even our models had an authentic street style feel – they were all students at a local Parisian fashion school. Best of all, we had this amazing Mercedes van with a driver that took us all over central Paris…AND…I had my French friend Esther along to assist me and function as my translator!
Here below then are all of my favorite photos from the day. If you scroll down to the last two images, those are scans of four of the actual pages from the issue. Hope you like!
Also – for those of you who are foreign fashion magazine junkies (i.e. for everyone who reads this blog) – I want to be sure that you guys know about Zinio. It’s a great way to buy inexpensive single issues of high-res digital versions of magazines from around the world – just go to the area in the top right corner of their homepage and change your country when doing a search – also, be sure that safe view is set to “off” or it may filter your search results. Playboy France, anyone? xx Mr. Newton
Oh hi there – how’s it going? If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll know that for much of the last month or so I’ve been shooting street style in Europe. From the muddy fields of Glastonbury to the beaches of Corsica, from biking around Paris during couture week on through Brick Lane, London – I hit lots of my personal favorite summer street style hotspots. What you might not know though is that it stays light a lot in the northwesternly bits of Europe in mid-summer…and I’m not talking about Scandinavia…I’m talking about England and France. If it’s a clear evening, it’s pretty much light out until 10pm…and I was therefore eating dinner later…and meeting friends and stuff…even went swimming in the Mediterranean one night around 9 or 9:30 – because it wasn’t dark yet. So I was getting back to my hotel/apt around 2am each night…and I was too tired then to stay up and edit photos. Then…in the mornings…around 10am…I would wake up and look outside and it was mostly amazingly sunny…for like 3 weeks! So I would look out and see people sitting in a park or I would see people on the beach or I would see the Eiffel Tower or something ridiculous like that…and I couldn’t bear to sit inside a hotel on a nice day. I’m sure you guys understand what I mean, right?? I mean shooting street style definitely works better in the summer…but editing street style photos definitely works better in like February…when it’s gross outside and gets dark at like 4pm. Plus – when possible – I like to give you guys epic posts! Not posting for a week or so is wack…but going out shooting all day long at some cool event and then posting ONE photo seems really wickedy wack.
So anyway…I’m back in NYC now (and the weather is actually really nice here too…and I’m still living in a hotel…and looking out the window) and I want to get started posting some of my photos from Europe! First up – here’s everything I shot at Dior couture on July 4th, 2011. Lots more coming soon from July in Europe…plus I’ll work in some brand new photos from my daily shooting here in New York of course. I’m heading out to shoot right now in fact…it’s a beautiful summer day out…mustn’t linger inside too long, you know… xx Mr. Newton
I love her…
I’ve seen her around town at a couple of fashion shows this week…I don’t know her name or anything about her…she doesn’t speak a word of English…and I don’t speak French. If you know who she is, please don’t leave it in the comments – sometimes a mystery doesn’t need to be solved.
Graffiti yesterday on the outside of Serge Gainsbourg’s house at 5 bis Rue de Verneuil, Paris…
Serge Gainsbourg’s former house has to be one of the most interesting residences in Paris. The family has left the inside EXACTLY as it was on the day he died in March, 1991…so not only are his records and books and photographs still sitting just as they were, but his toothbrush is still there…and tomato juice in the fridge…and canned food from 1991 in the cabinets…and gum and mints beside the bed. You can read more about it here – The Secret World of Serge Gainsbourg.
You certainly do see some a muse-ing sights while wandering the streets of Paris…
At the Louis Vuitton show – a mini-skirt, bare legs, and ankle boots is not an easy look for a civilian to pull off…but when you have a face and legs like this, who’s going to complain? Wow! (Love the scrunched up sleeves on the jacket and the bow tie too!)
