The Sartorialist

…this looks like it could be Rome circa 1963

Remember that last Prada show where the girls kept falling down?

I was wondering if anyone got the shot – the hand on the right is me catching one of the girls as she fell.

The young lady in this photo had already fallen three times before she reached me and fell again about five steps past me. I have never seen a more terrified girl on the runway – it was very difficult to watch. Finally she took the shoes off and walked in bare feet the rest of the way. A lot of people had thought that the reason the girls kept falling was because the heels were too high. Actually, it was the little cotton socks that were inside the shoes. The girls couldn’t keep their heels in the shoes correctly. If you think Lara Stone looks stern in her everyday life, she looked five times more serious trying to make it around the maze/catwalk in those shoes.

Did Miuccia ever explain her side of why the girls kept slipping? Maybe the samples were late and they were not able to check them correctly?

I was chit-chatting with Susan after I took this picture and mentioned that I thought her hair was sooo beautiful – her best feature.

She said thanks and added that she had lost her hair once because of cancer. She now purposely keeps it long because she feels it is such a gift to have it back and, for her, a sign of life.

It seems the Italians are dying to find new Agnelli-isms.

Apparently leaving the strap of your monkstrap shoes undone is all the rage. Usually I only see it done with double monkstraps, but this brave Italian was throwing caution (and safety) to the wind and had the straps on both shoes undone.

I’m not condoning, just reporting.

I love that Carine is always happy to stop and talk or have her picture taken with her fans.

Carine shows a genuine interest – Carine asked this young lady where she was from.

The girl walked away just beaming.

Actually I can’t tell if they are having sex or fighting…. sometimes it looks similar.

So I traded the fun and sun of Moscow for the cloudy gloom of Rio!!!

I will try to suffer through.

The first images from Rio will probably appear Friday and continue into next week.

If you have enjoyed the photos from Moscow then there is just one person to thank….petite Mirochka!!

She is the Hostess with the Mostess and treated my work for this blog with the same level of passion and concentration as she did the story I shot for Harpers Bazaar Russia.

I think most of you could tell I was a little hesitant about what I would find on that trip but now I now hope to make Moscow a permanent stop on my travels.

I met Natasha at one of the fashion shows I attended while I was in Moscow. I knew I had to shoot her but I didn’t have my camera with me. I asked her to stop by the Harpers Bazaar Russia shoot I was doing the next day, and to bring a few of her favorite looks.
She is an absolute doll, she LOVES fashion and and is the top student at her fashion school. She brought her camera with pics of different hair styles that she can do by herself in under 10 minutes.

Natasha and the other young ladies from Moscow I have posted so far, to me, represent the new Russian style.
Not that there is a specific “Russian Look” yet but this generation is past worrying about labels, labels, labels and is really embracing the fun and artistry that fashion can provide to our daily lives.

Tonight I will post the other image we took that day.