https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/parisian-chick-from-sartorialist-blog Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:05:35 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/parisian-chick-from-sartorialist-blog/page/2#post-42490 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:37:25 +0000 Lucy 42490@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Just getting caught up on this thread and laughing my head off. Thank you, Maya, for a sentence I never thought I would read on this site:<br /> "The crotch is one area that I think women should refrain from experimenting with."<br /> Oh, ho, ha-ha, I can't stop laughing . . . </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/parisian-chick-from-sartorialist-blog/page/2#post-42487 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:05:38 +0000 BLB 42487@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh man, you are all too funny! I'm really and truly laughing out loud reading through this thread. I think it's a classic! </p> <p>I'm off to have more coffee to recover from the Purple Harem Jumpsuit of DOOOOOOOM. Thank goodness I have those India photos Maya posted as an antidote. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/parisian-chick-from-sartorialist-blog/page/2#post-42485 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:00:40 +0000 Violet 42485@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Maya, thanks for posting the pics from India!</p> <p>I just noticed that in the picture of the guy on the motorcycle, he is wearing white socks with sports sandals!!</p> <p>It has been about 10 years since I last visited India and the fashions have definitely changed. I wish he would have posted a picture of a woman wearing a sari. My mom has a whole collection of gorgeous saris in all sorts of fabrics and I'm probably biased, but I think they are beautiful. I'll have to see if I can find any pictures to share.</p> <p>The purple jumpsuit outfit is just awful.</p> <p>Like Tanya, I think I would rather wear a maxi dress and crocs than that outfit! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/parisian-chick-from-sartorialist-blog/page/2#post-42391 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:34:49 +0000 Tanya 42391@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yep, I have seen those dresses Maya, and I completely agree with you. Let's see how they sell and if in a month they go to 50% or more discount indicating that no one is buying them. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/parisian-chick-from-sartorialist-blog/page/2#post-42390 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:27:23 +0000 Maya 42390@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>That's like choosing between the electric chair and lethal injection. </p> <p>Not to go even more off topic, but has anyone seen those silk maxi dresses from BR? Even the models looked awful in them. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/parisian-chick-from-sartorialist-blog/page/2#post-42389 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:18:33 +0000 Tanya 42389@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>OMG! I can't find the right words! I think that faced with a choice of wearing that versus maxi floral dress with Crocs, I would choose the latter! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/parisian-chick-from-sartorialist-blog/page/2#post-42383 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:08:26 +0000 Maya 42383@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yes Tanya. It is a purple harem pant jumpsuit. I'll let you recover from the shock now :p </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/parisian-chick-from-sartorialist-blog/page/2#post-42379 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:03:35 +0000 Tanya 42379@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thank you for posting those gorgeous pictures Maya. The one with the long black dress is stunning.</p> <p>I am completely speechless regarding the purple harem pants, wait, is that a jumpsuit ?!? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/parisian-chick-from-sartorialist-blog/page/2#post-42376 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:01:26 +0000 Maya 42376@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>That's the most painful part! She's a pretty girl and I bet she has a cute little bod under all that ridiculous fabric. The extreme dropped crotch is what really got to me. The crotch is one area that I think women should refrain from experimenting with. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/parisian-chick-from-sartorialist-blog/page/2#post-42374 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:59:09 +0000 Angie 42374@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yes. I noticed that it was the same girl in the traditional grab. I like the picture even more. It make me catch my breath, it’s so, SO stunning. </p> <p>Wow. I didn’t know that Mr. Sart had a relationship with his subjects. I wonder what happened? </p> <p>I have one word for the harem pants: *apoplexy* </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/parisian-chick-from-sartorialist-blog#post-42373 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:53:15 +0000 Ana 42373@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yes, Maya--that's the outfit! A purple harem pant jumpsuit? Really?! I just...don't even know what to say. I like her hair, I guess. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/parisian-chick-from-sartorialist-blog#post-42371 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:50:07 +0000 Maya 42371@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ana, this picture alone made Russia my least favorite group. I think it's the worst outfit I think I've ever seen in on his blog...perhaps in my life.</p> <p><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qjpwnPW4c1o/SQsL_jKQDTI/AAAAAAAAEQc/xkoqoJAbfxw/s1600-h/10298PurpleWeb.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qjpw.....pleWeb.jpg</a></p> <p>Although I did really like Mirochka:</p> <p><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qjpwnPW4c1o/SQ8JQjLg0YI/AAAAAAAAETM/Y0DGXJgPsTQ/s1600-h/10288MiraAWeb.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qjpw.....raAWeb.jpg</a></p> <p>I guess I noticed the India backgrounds more because they were so different from the ones he usually posts, and the NY backgrounds are so familiar I pretty much tune them out completely. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/parisian-chick-from-sartorialist-blog#post-42362 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:41:25 +0000 Ana 42362@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I was kind of wondering about whether all his shots were just of random people, because I've seen the same people in different shots wearing different things. I think the "random" shots he gets are the ones where people are walking away on their cellphone or something like that, but I'm not sure. I like his Paris and Italy photos. My least favorite are the ones of Russia. Some were okay, but I recall a lot of harem pants.</p> <p>That photo of the girl in the photo is gorgeous! I almost always notice the backgrounds. He uses a lot of the same ones in Paris and New York. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/parisian-chick-from-sartorialist-blog#post-42359 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:35:59 +0000 Maya 42359@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Actually, a girl that I know from school was the subject of what might have been the most controversial post Sart ever made! I just thought of that now.</p> <p>He wanted to give her a makeover, and he suggested taking her to places like J Crew, the Gap, BR...the kind of places we talk about all the time here. And of course all the fashion snobs raised their voices in protest that he was stifling her originality by taking her to these chain stores. I don't know if they ever went through with it or not and I couldn't ask her because she had dropped the class she had with me! </p> <p>The girl in the black dress is the same girl in the traditional garb standing in the garden. That is my favorite picture he has ever taken. It looks like the set of an opera. I just felt like the India photographs really lent themselves towards his style of photography. I usually don't pay much attention to the setting of each picture, but he got some really sweet background shots there. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/parisian-chick-from-sartorialist-blog#post-42346 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:15:45 +0000 Angie 42346@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh that was such fun! Thanks, Maya. The girl in the black dress and yellow flats took my breath away. She is magnificent. I loved all the others too. The skinny bloke made me smile. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/parisian-chick-from-sartorialist-blog#post-42340 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:04:50 +0000 marianne 42340@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Maya, those photos are lovely! I agree about his photos being more about art than fashion - I know nothing about photography but even I can see that the palette and texture of surroundings play a huge role. I never read the comments - I thought since there are so many it'll be hard to sift through to get any meaningful content.</p> <p>Laura, I can also relate about the shortage of street fashion around here! I get some around here but a lot of it is close to what you see, except more geared toward rainy weather. I see some nicer clothing, too, but often it's something that can't realistically be worn outside the car. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/parisian-chick-from-sartorialist-blog#post-42322 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:38:52 +0000 judy 42322@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh, Basia, thank you! I'm so glad some little photo I took can brighten your day, truly. And I second what Angie said about your euro presence here on the forum.</p> <p>Though I enjoy many photo or personal blogs, and they brighten my day too...I don't read comments normally. Sometimes I don't even read the text, I just look at the pictures :)!</p> <p>Maya, I laughed out loud with your remark about altering his pajamas! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/parisian-chick-from-sartorialist-blog#post-42320 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:32:19 +0000 Maya 42320@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Here are the pics. I think each of the pictures, at least from my POV, is more about a detail of each outfit (like the tabbed sleeves one of the young men is wearing), or the idea of the outfit (girl with the menswear shorts) than about the overall look. </p> <p><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qjpwnPW4c1o/R-e7uWQgbnI/AAAAAAAADJc/UrPO2-9BRw4/s1600-h/PinkDelhiweb.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qjpw.....lhiweb.jpg</a></p> <p><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qjpwnPW4c1o/R-I7s2QgbkI/AAAAAAAADJE/Ba-ODcQqxDA/s1600-h/A-Different-Day,-Delhiweb.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qjpw.....lhiweb.jpg</a></p> <p><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qjpwnPW4c1o/R-EAZGkfX1I/AAAAAAAADI0/f7Ec4kvojyo/s1600-h/PKindiaweb.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qjpw.....diaweb.jpg</a></p> <p><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qjpwnPW4c1o/R93dh2kfXsI/AAAAAAAADHw/Pwv-rnL154k/s1600-h/SilverEyesweb.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qjpw.....yesweb.jpg</a></p> <p><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qjpwnPW4c1o/R93dKWkfXrI/AAAAAAAADHo/MrGvUAnuB5A/s1600-h/SilverEyesFullweb.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qjpw.....ullweb.jpg</a></p> <p><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qjpwnPW4c1o/R9yl6mkfXpI/AAAAAAAADHY/OWiGJsDPVH4/s1600-h/OnMotorcycleweb.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qjpw.....cleweb.jpg</a></p> <p><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qjpwnPW4c1o/R9nmnWkfXiI/AAAAAAAADGg/WfEkJQ10OSU/s1600-h/PriyaKweb.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qjpw.....yaKweb.jpg</a></p> <p>OK this one isn't really stylish in any way that I can tell, but the girl is so cute:</p> <p><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qjpwnPW4c1o/R9_L92kfXvI/AAAAAAAADIE/VbsVcOWmaYw/s1600-h/StonesDelhiweb.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qjpw.....lhiweb.jpg</a></p> <p>And any phrases including the world noodle are good in my book. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/parisian-chick-from-sartorialist-blog#post-42318 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:19:14 +0000 Angie 42318@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Where are the pics taken in India? I must have missed those. </p> <p>“I almost lost my noodle” - I love that expression. I have a friend who says that she’ll hit you with a wet noodle when she’s annoyed with you. Love that expression too. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/parisian-chick-from-sartorialist-blog#post-42317 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:16:17 +0000 Maya 42317@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I no longer bother reading the comments either. They put me in a rather cynical mood. </p> <p>Also, when he started writing about getting his pajamas altered, I almost lost my noodle.</p> <p>I think his best posts were the ones he did in India. India is not a place where you find the kind of high fashion snobbery he seeks out in places like Paris and New York, so the photographs he took seemed more genuinely in keeping with his original mission, which was to find style in ordinary people and unexpected places. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/parisian-chick-from-sartorialist-blog#post-42313 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:07:02 +0000 Angie 42313@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Basia, you are fabulous. I love your Euro presence of this forum and I miss it when you awol. Keep posting your comments regularly! Thanks for recognizing the YLF community. I do not have the words to adequately describe what this forum and its members mean to me. A whole blimmin’ lot! </p> <p>Laura: “I see a lot of Uggs and North Face and blonde bobs and not much else, so I love his photos”. You crack me up. </p> <p>Maya, I find many of the comments on Sart’s blog pretentious – people trying to sound deep and be clever. It makes no impression on me. Bar the ones with fur, I do find the pics entertaining and I don’t read the comments anymore. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/parisian-chick-from-sartorialist-blog#post-42261 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:52:56 +0000 Maya 42261@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Basia you are absolutely right. Actually, one of the reasons I chose to post comments on YLF in the first place was because I didn't feel so intimidated. Sart's blog seems full of fashion snobs.</p> <p>I think it's hilarious that even when he posts a picture of someone wearing something absolutely atrocious, like a construction worker in paint-splattered overalls, all the replies are along the lines of "OMG IT LOOKS INCREDIBLE!" I really like his posts as works of photography, but I no longer care for them as fashion inspiration. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/parisian-chick-from-sartorialist-blog#post-42247 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:04:13 +0000 Laura 42247@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Basia, you are so right about Angie's site being about much more than fashion. That's why we all love it, right?</p> <p>About The Sartorialist, I do like his blog, and it's because we don't have street fashion where I live. If I still lived in Manhattan, I probably would care less about his blog because I could see people every day dressed in really interesting ways (whether I liked the fashion or not matters little - to me, it's simply entertaining). In suburban Chicago though, I see a lot of Uggs and North Face and blonde bobs and not much else, so I love his photos. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/parisian-chick-from-sartorialist-blog#post-42244 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:57:06 +0000 Basia 42244@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I ma here, I am here and YOU keep me sane while these Italians around drive me mad! I guess this new job drains me out so I only indulged myself with reading the blog instead of participating...How sad is this??</p> <p>I placed this comment most probably as a silent wish of the woman of 1.5 meter working in uniform who has to dress with fitting care because of the frame while sees herself wrapped up in a floating layers;-) I wonder how far in size from Shiny am I?</p> <p>Concerning Sartorialist blog: I love it as a variety which is always inspiring. Similarly like Tate Galery in London: I love to go there but I would never take any of the art pieces home. People from his photos Do walk the streets of Milan. But they are not part of OUR community.</p> <p>In my opinion YLF stooped being a fashion blog a long time ago. Angie with all the members managed to create the Community of so much beyond fashion! WIth all the topic fashion inspired but not necessarily fashion related. Just think of all the threads we been through: starting with what to wear, politics, partners, careers and even how many glasses of water to drink a day! AND with how many different opinions we dealt? The variety is beautiful! But also, a lot of respect and willingness to understand and accept different point of view.</p> <p>I realized the other day that I was wearing pearls for long time, inspired by CoCo Chanel saying that they enlighten the face. But now, when I see nice pearl neckless in a movie or a store I don't think about Coco, I think: Angie would love this!<br /> Do you think anybody from Sartorialist think of the author that way?</p> <p>Concerning inspiration; Judy, you would never believe how much your blog and pictures brighten the most rainy day in Milan;-) Thank You! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/parisian-chick-from-sartorialist-blog#post-42194 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:26:40 +0000 Angie 42194@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Nice to see you post again Basia. "Drie Koningen" is how I know Kings day - and that’s the Dutch version. It’s the day you take down your decorations. </p> <p>The Parisian women looks pretty, but I have to say that I’m not wowed by her outfit(*ducking*). </p> <p>I’m back. I enjoy the satorialist’s attempt to capture street wear. I too am not wildly fond of the outfits he photographs but I enjoy the artistic integrity of the process even if his sampling is highly biased. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/parisian-chick-from-sartorialist-blog#post-42182 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:14:30 +0000 Maya 42182@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I don't like all the outfits either. Many of them seem impractical for most people--the kind of things only someone who is willing to sacrifice comfort for fashion could wear. </p> <p>Also, has anyone noticed that the women he posts are never bigger than a size 6? A lot of the women he photographs literally are already models, and if they're not, they probably could be. Many of them are big names in the fashion biz, or other mini-celebrities. So it really isn't always about finding "normal" people with great style. I wonder if he genuinely just never sees a normal sized woman who dresses spectacularly, or if he specifically avoids anyone who isn't model thin.</p> <p>And I really lost a lot of my enthusiasm when he posted a series of photographs of women wearing furs in various ways, and then blocked any comments that even respectfully tried to criticize his choice. It's his blog of course, but it really rubbed me the wrong way.</p> <p>I used to love the blog, and a lot of the images are exquisite, but I don't live in a fashion fantasy world so I prefer YLF by a long shot :)</p> <p>That said, that woman looks fabulous. I think the layering of different pastels is what makes it unusually rich. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/parisian-chick-from-sartorialist-blog#post-42103 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:25:29 +0000 BLB 42103@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Violet, I agree--and I think with a certain portion of the outfits you'll see on blogs like the Sartorialist, that's the point. To be very artfully ugly/unflattering/super-odd/dishevelled/whatever. For me, those looks are more art than fashion. I like to look at them and think about them, but I wouldn't wear them and don't even necessarily "like" them in the way I usually like fashion.</p> <p>Bella, what is the Epiphany cake tradition? Sounds neat! I didn't grow up in a liturgical church so I don't know most of the traditions. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/parisian-chick-from-sartorialist-blog#post-42064 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:41:56 +0000 judy 42064@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>That's funny, Violet...neither do I...on any of those fashion blogs! Some outfits look ridiculous. I always take it as the photog's personal bias, just putting their own opinion out there, what caught their eye. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/parisian-chick-from-sartorialist-blog#post-42059 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:26:27 +0000 Violet 42059@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>That's a nice outfit! I like the pink color of the coat and the bag is nice.</p> <p>I have a confession to make...and I feel like this is a safe place, so here goes...</p> <p>I don't always like the outfits I see on The Sartorialist. There I said it. I guess I just don't have an eye for high fashion. Some of the outfits are just way out there. I can appreciate the creativity and I do find the outfits interesting, but not everything I see looks stylish for fashionable to me.</p> <p>Phew, now my secret's out of the bag. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/parisian-chick-from-sartorialist-blog#post-42051 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:58:39 +0000 bella 42051@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Do any of you have the cake tradition for Epiphany? I haven't had it in years but i remember it was a fun tradition. </p>