Ang Peregrino Recommends 41: The Sartorialist

The Sar­to­ri­al­ist
URL: http://​the​sar​to​ri​al​ist​.blogspot​.com/

Scott Schu­man started The Sar­to­ri­al­ist when he real­ized that there was a dis­con­nect between what is sold in the show­room from what he was see­ing really cool peo­ple are wear­ing in real life.

Before The Sar­to­ri­al­ist, Scott worked in sales and mar­ket­ing for high-end women’s designer col­lec­tions like Valentino and dis­tri­b­u­tion com­pa­nies like Onward Kashiyama, which at that time rep­re­sented design­ers like Hel­mut Lang and Jean-Paul Gaultier. He even­tu­ally opened his own show­room spe­cial­iz­ing in sales and press for young designer col­lec­tions like James Coviello and Peter Som.

Shortly after 9/11, he closed the show­room and began focus­ing on pho­tog­ra­phy. His two loves—fashion and photography—eventually merged into The Sartorialist.

The Sar­to­ri­al­ist tries to echo how a fash­ion designer would look at peo­ple on the streets–“I thought I could shoot peo­ple on the street the way design­ers looked at peo­ple, and get and give inspi­ra­tion to lots of peo­ple in the process. My only strat­egy when I began The Sar­to­ri­al­ist was to try and shoot style in a way that I knew most design­ers hunted for inspiration.”

While the run­way can be very exclu­sive, street fash­ion is inclu­sive of all sexes, ages, eco­nomic classes; your expres­sion is your real limitation.

Scott now shoots for style​.com (the offi­cial web­site of VOGUE mag­a­zine) in the fash­ion cap­i­tals of the world – Lon­don, Paris, Milan. He also shoots and writes a monthly page for GQ Mag­a­zine and the Japan­ese Men’s Ex. It is one of the most pop­u­lar blogs on the web right now (not a sur­prise since fash­ion is one of the favorite top­ics of peo­ple). Schu­man has been listed as one of TIME Magazine’s top 100 design influencers.

For teach­ing us that if we know how to look, we could find inspi­ra­tion any­where, and for mak­ing us see that if you dress well, the streets can be your run­way, Ang Pere­grino Rec­om­mends The Sar­to­ri­al­ist this week.