Big Stylish Brother: Live Streetcam ‘Fashion’ Site Snaps Pedestrians - by Yasha Wallin

“To answer the changing times, we introduce Styleblaster, a realtime account of what people in Williamsburg are wearing. Unlike a typical street style blog, Styleblaster documents all – the visiting fashion plates, the hipsters and have-nots, the native Polish and Italian proud who have for years called this neighborhood home. And above all – the dapper salarymen and businesswomen who stand to inherit the area.”

In our latest look at what’s ethical in fashion, lifestyle editor Amanda Hess talks about Vogue’s recent policy on not showing models 16 and under any longer, and why that might not be quite good enough:

Condé Nast’s pledge fails to distinguish between the real work of a fashion shoot and the fantasy images that result from it. Which model “appears to have an eating disorder”? The one who must actually starve herself to fit into a sample size 0? Or the naturally thin one whose body type—replicated over and over and over again in Vogue’s advertisements, runway coverage, and editorials—is nevertheless dangerous to the young women who will starve themselves to get as small as she is? Voguedoesn’t say.

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Ethical Style: Don’t Donate Clothes, Repurpose Them

Quality clothing means better fabric, and good fabric can be reworked again and again to make sure it never goes out of style. Today, we want an ever-changing array of cheap clothes, and we rarely think about sustainability or quality. In order to consume clothes more ethically, we must change the way we think about them.

Ethical fashion requires making new styles out of metaphorical rags (even if they’re just last season’s jeggings), whether from your closet, thrift stores, consignment shops, or online outlets.

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Ethical Style: Where Do My Used Clothes Go?

Today, we only hang on to about 21 percent of the clothing we buy every year. What happens to the pieces that don’t make the cut? Most of them end up in landfills—only about 15 percent of discarded clothing is recycled or reused, whether by individual or industry. Perhaps it’s time to start asking a new question: Why do we have so much junk that we are in the position to inundate the world with our reject piles? 

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Lately we’ve been profiling good people with great fashion sense in an ongoing series called Annotated Style. This week, Skye Cassidy walks us through what she and her son are wearing, letting us know how she’s finding these gems.

We’re all in agreement that we want that little guy’s hat, right? Right. Good then.  

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In our first installment of Annotated Style, the feature in which we will style blog the style bloggers, Marie Denee, the Curvy Fashionista, breaks down her look. Visualize the perfect outfit:

1 “I love this hot pink dress from Rachel Pally: instantly chic and flirty. I originally got it to wear on a trip to New York, but I had too many outfits, not enough time! So I stashed it for BET Awards. A few bloggers were invited to look in on the process as Tika Sumpter got flashbulb-ready in the Cover Girl Queen Collection beauty lounge. This is me at my own red-carpet moment.”

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