The Sartorialist

cool! :)

kind of like a female rob zombie look.

great post to start out the new decade!!!

watch out!!

Grungy with loads of attitude

The hair looks great.

Love, love, love the use of background to frame the subject.

I love it!she's got 'that I don't care'-feel about her but she's still drop dead gorgeous.

LOVE IT!!! comfortable yet sexy. If most people wore that outfit they would look awful.. but she looks warm comfortable,stylish and really rock and roll! Love the belt detail, and her hair! Girl crush!
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Super edgey look! I dig the pant's, longjohns, and boots look. Bravo, great photo!

Raw subject matter beautifully framed.

i like the jacket and boots! great picture!

best wishes this new year.

Not wild about the jacket, but I love the shorts, shoes and belt.

Wow, anime character style?! Love it.

The florescent lights looks she has outstretched wings. Nice. Love the color of blue of her bomber jacket.

Awesome shoes!

Magnifique!
J'adore son look.

definitely one of your better portraits, the outfit's really raw and emotional. well captured.

If Darryl Hannah in 'Blade Runner' were a brunette she'd look like this. Very nice.

I love the harmonious combination of different shades of black through different textures. Brilliant.

Great pic! Love the jacket and the weathered look of boots.

Love this jacket…
XXX…

Did someone say Underworld. Her fact actually does look a lot like Kate Beckinsale…after the battle.

It's kind of a disaster but she carries it well.

Good to have you back and back in the groove image wise.

This is great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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This is such an inspiring style photo! I like to see images like this that offer different definitions of femininity.

She's reminiscent of Kate Beckinsale in the movie "Underworld," but with a lot more bite. Kinda like the love child of Patti Smith and Kate Beckinsale. I love it.

These elements — from the messy hair to the scuffed boots — are really hard to pull off without looking sloppy, outdated or flat out butch. And yet this lovely woman has managed to make it work wonderfully. I'll definitely be studying this for clues on how to recreate the magic happening here.

I disagree with the comment above that this is about her pretty face.
While individual presence always plays a role in successful style, if you cover her face this look still works. (That's a little trick I often use to determine if I'm reacting to the model or the outfit: place your thumb over the face, then judge.)

Question for The Sartorialist:
the jacket looks like it has a metallic blue finish, which is making me go gahhhh! Is that just a coincidence of the lighting?

Violet from "The Incredibles"!

Wow! Nice! She looks fierce!

GAH!! This is my girl crush!! Ive seen her around the lower east and east village a few times and always end up "stalking" her until I feel creepy! hahaha– amazing style and gorgeous girl.. sigh….

Holy cow! This fierce chic totally reminds me of Tom Hardy in the newest BBC remake of Wuthering Heights. He was hot and so is she. Swoon.

Can't find a full-length photo of him from the film, but found this shot that helps convey the similarities.

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the worn boots with the white slouchy long johns is an awesome contrast. lovely and unaffected at all once.

Artsy photo.

Subject matter — just horrible. Imitation MJ or is that a homeless person?

Ohmigod…now *that* is fierce. So hot. What a fantastic way to kick off the new year/decade! Beautiful shot–the lights framing her face are tremendous. And she is…my goodness…the stuff of my fantasies. Thanks Sart!

It's not so much what she's wearing, but the wonderful background that fits her perfectly. I cannot imagine this look with a field of flowers in the back. Great eye, Sart!

Cheers to a glorious 2010!

LA

i love it. i love her boots, i love the (as i choose to call it) sinner-hair, and the fact that she went through the trouble of keeping the buckle on her belt exposed despite the heavy jacket!

amazing look, she is beyond cool.

love each piece separately…just not all together. yucky for me, sorry. loads better street style in nyc.

I am mostly struck by the fact that this is so POLARLY different than your last post, with the old photos – just goes to show the broadness of true style and the Sart's ability to capture it! But, secondly, I'm impressed by the photo even more than I like her look (although I do) – the tunnel setting was a great choice, especially with the hair and kinda crazy-eyes vibe.

Today on the subway in Boston, I saw a young woman who was wearing something completely different yet similar: the dark blues, the line–not tight and skinny, but big and wide! I thought her look was completely new and a harbinger of what's to come!

she's emmanuelle alt, yes? or just a lookalike? ok, whoever she is, she's such an amazing woman with great style. everything she wore had always got me stunned. the beat up boots are awesome and the grunge feel of her look is simply wow-tastic!

this image is spectacle, spectacular. space is my canvas and this is what i strive for when creating spaces; beauty, edge, strength, synthesis. i am in love with this woman.

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She looks a bit like Emmanuelle Alt, but this lady is much younger. My first thought was "lovely & so Grunge" which Is a style I really love. Its all about the combination and getting stuff that do not work on paper, but then in real life, really DO work!

She looks a bit oveer done though, in my opinion, like trying too hard. Her hair is great, but a loose ponytail would fit the outfit better, I don't know really, but there is just something with that outfit that doesn't work. Maybe the shoes should be authentic Dr Martens.. Then I might believe her :)

I agree the lighting is lovely. But I bought those pants in Iowa City, Iowa in 1989 and everyone laughed. Love the recycled boots, brilliant. Wish blue were my color…

your best photograph ever. according to me.

there is more than one thing to admire, but i get the sense you time-traveled to find this image. just after world war three and the u.s.'s collapse. it's amazing the electricity still works.

paralyzing.

Best footwear EVER!

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I relly like those boots, you can see they have a tonn of personality! And she looks absolutey awesome!

Re Anonymous @ 6:25:

That was me and I passed out a short time later. Sorry for the typos. What I meant to say is:

"Did someone say Underworld? Her face actually does look a lot like Kate Beckinsale…after the battle.

It's kind of a disaster but she carries it well."

…no words…cannot make up my mind about her outfit. It makes me feel kind of confused…
Hate or Love?

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I love these layers!

I love her hair and aged boots!
A truly great 2010 photo!
Let's grow up later

This is a good example of an outfit that your mother would never tell you to wear. But it all comes off beautifully here. The colors are great, the textures are interesting, and the girl totally "inhabits" the look and she makes it really work for her. She gives you the feeling that you're in her world now, so you might as well get used to it. I love this. It's creative, well-realized, and tough enough to be especially interesting on a girl.

awful.

Love the boots. I love the setting of this photograph as well. Great posing on her part and interesting forward fashion. xoxo

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I love her jacket!But she looks a bit scary…

fresh!
Vitality in winter!

I hate the shorts, so not what I expected when I saw her face. However, the underpants are fantastic.

i like all the pieces, (especially the boots) and her beautiful face, but the whole effect looks lumpy.

God, she's so hot.

Oh Yeeesssss !!!!!!!

What is with the gross slouchy tights on people?!
Marc Jacobs, this lady… will it ever end?

Attitude does not necessarily equal style. Whether she projects charisma or not, her clothing is just awful. POLISH YOUR BOOTS, I say!

As we say in Scotland " I would'nae mess," but really where is she going dressed like that. I want to go too. I,m all for a little distressed somewhere in an outfit. This girls too young to worry about gloss.

Stunning in all aspects from the photo, to the model, to the clothes – all. This girl is so cool it hurts. I want one.

On December 21, 2012, I will follow the One in the gorgeous metallic slate jacket. : )

love the boots, esp the rusty edge

Lisbeth Salander ..!? :D

Happy 2010!
I would hate to meet her in a dark alleyway but can admire her fierce and fabulous look/outfit from afar!

Very Stieg Larsson heroine

hot!

I totally agree with the person who said this outfit looks like it's from a movie – she could have walked straight out of 'Terminator: Salvation', or an editorial about ultra-masculine dressing! For such a grungy outfit, it seems strangely almost over-styled. I think because everything about it is SO masculine (materials, fit, etc) it might almost be… too much? I mean it's so typical of one specific style, and so artfully messy and ill-fitting (in just the right way) that it seems like she's trying really hard.

I don't get it. She's my neighbor and she wears the same ensemble everyday… no imagination, no variety, and frankly no style… it's just the same old monotonous black crap. I'm expecting to see this look at The Gap next season, pseudo badass!

I love this "Lisbeth Salander`s" look!!!

Badass. I like it when people pull off the "I don't give a shit (but I really kinda do)" look.

I like that she TRIED to be edgy. It takes discipline and guts to have theme and style everyday. I admire that. She reminded me very much of a heroine from French film 'La Femme Nikita'. I love the raw, physicality and strength she exudes. City version of Amazone warrior. What a refreshing look ; I was tired of carefully coordinated chic and this was a great visual game changer. Tks!

Pretty girl–her clothes look like she is trying really hard to be cool.

It's not what you wear but how you wear it – yet again.

great blog.

not convinced by this myself. She has a very LA, 'costume department-from-a-vampire-series' type feel…the look in her face is too conventionally pretty/unimaginative/self-conscious. Shes not real grunge. Real punk and grunge is an attitude and the outfit a bi-product of this; whereas this outfit is just the surface look.

One of my all time favorites! She is so cool.

i would have guessed berlin…surprisingly it's not :)

THIS IS JUSTIN BOBBY'S TWIN SISTERRRRRR

I used to have boots just like those!

Shut the front door!!! I can't even talk right now. Everything about this picture makes me cry tears of joy!!!

So cool..

I always had a dream of being able to give that smoldering of a stare.

I think this is my favorite of the month. Very unique. Like a young Joan Jett in steampunk garb.

I am in love..

Dickens' Oliver but older, tuffer and hotter.

Wow, this is amazing. I'm not sure if I like the femme or the backdrop more. Stellar shot.

I like the worn out boots. It shows history.

The boots are just really cool along with the models overall outfit. Great job!

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