Fashion & The City

May: Fashion & The City: Chicago

May. Fashion and the city, Chicago. Again, another blending of style and the details of the city and its streets. Joint inspiration from behind my lens, indeed. Quick snapshots in time of changing visuals in a city. Without a doubt, it was officially Summer. And a sweltering Summer day, at that. With temps in the concrete jungle in the high 90’s, the “real feel” was clocked in at 104 while perusing the Gold Coast off Michigan Avenue. On this particular day, breezes from Lake Michigan were non-existent.  It was merely hot, hot, hot. But onward. Onward to rejuvenate myself and focus on the details and the city scene I was immersed in. Chicago Love. Fashion Love. City life love.

Spring Into Summer Green Off The Chicago River

With a nod to Memorial Day, the windows of Ralph Lauren offered a classic American visual of fashionable style. Polo Style. All white delight, and the red, white and blue stars and stripes that we love. Classic Americana. Summer in America, for certain.

Ralph Lauren’s Polo: Classic American Fashion

Of course, Max Mara always gains several compilations from behind my lens. A mass of stylish mannequins always lures my camera…

Max Mara: Style & The City

Structure & Stylish Substance: The City & Max Mara

Fashion Windows & City Details

Structure & Fashion’s Timeless Form: Max Mara

Michael Kors City Style

Vivid Tones In The City: Hugo Boss

A City’s Stylish Reflections: Chanel

Fashion & Timeless Structure: Chanel and City Details

 

Neiman Marcus: The Marred Mannequin & The City

A word about a photographed mannequin from behind the stylish windows of Neiman Marcus. Shock from behind my lens. As I have been capturing visual merchandising from behind my lens for over 5 years, I had yet to come across a mannequin on Michigan Avenue, from such a high-end brand as Neiman’s, with a marred face. As I stood there, debating to share such an image of visual faux pas, I began to ponder as to how the visual merchandiser found it acceptable to leave the mannequin in the window with such glaring defects. Alas, perhaps it is only those of us that truly stop to view, to admire, to look at the details, that notice.  Maybe the thought was it would go unnoticed by the fast paced shoppers that only throw a glance towards the fashionable whimsy behind the expansive windows of glass.  Yet to me, as a photographer of high style mannequins, I expect more. Higher standards, if you will.  Perhaps I am in alignment with the well said quote below…

“I have the simplest taste. I am only satisfied with the best”   -Founder Stanley Marcus of Neiman Marcus

City Style: Burberry And The City

Fashion and the city. One more compilation in time. Visual merchandising that changes monthly and the structure and form of the city. A love affair that continues.

Onward,

Kristin

The Photographer In The City. Selfie, Buberry’s/May 2018

Fashion & The City

Fashion & The City: Chicago Style

Fashion. The city. Two loves entwined. Another month of images from behind my lens to weave together the visuals of styled, fashionable stance behind thick panels of glass and the structural visuals that a city bestows to those who look closer. Details. Captured. The essence of a fashion and the city that surrounds it…

It was late April in Chicago. Blue skies. Minimal Chicago winds. Spring was in the air. Alas, my timeliness in sharing is late…but images are lasting and one month spills into the next swiftly. Time itself is swift. The month of May images await from behind my lens. Yes, a monthly visual compilation continues. Yet appreciation of the moment captured is always my intent to share. Onward in that. From behind the lens.

City view: Chicago, April 2018

City Structure & Fashion’s Whimsy At Neiman Marcus

City Scene & Brilliant Whimsy, Neiman Marcus

Stripes & Structure: Neiman’s & The City Of Chicago

Hugo Boss & Michigan Avenue Scene

“Chicago” Icon & Burberry

Max Mara & City Detail

Max Mara: Blue Hue & Architectural Details

Michael Kors & Iconic Chicago Architecture…The Wrigley Building

Chanel. Details in a city.

Every once in a while I photograph a mannequin that beckons a rendering in black and white. Brilliant fashion style that endures to delight from behind the lens (thank you, Max Mara).

For the love of Fashion’s Mannequin… Max Mara Style

Consider the world of fashion as it exists in the city. The two collide in a delightful city scene. For the love of fashion and the city, Onward.

Kristin

Fashion & The City

Fashion and the City/Chicago/March 2018

Fashion & the city. Entwined. Architecture and the city. City scenes and fashionable luring windows endure to bring appreciation from behind my lens. An ongoing attempt at capturing the essence of fashion’s change in a structural world of distinctive architectural details. A love affair, indeed…

Spring onward, from behind the lens…

The Beauty Of Neiman Marcus  Visuals & City Details

City Patterns & Color Bursts Of Style

Seasonal Nods Of High Style, Neiman Marcus

Fashion and the City, Louis Vuitton

For the Love Of Chanel…And The City Of Chicago

Two Loves: Fashion & The City

The Windows Of Prada, The Artistry Of Visual Display & Details Of Substance In A City

Color Burst, Tom Ford & City Scene

Stripes & City Style: Max Mara

Fashion & The City: Always Entwined. Max Mara.

Burberry Fashion & Architecture

Appreciate the details that surround you. Looking closer, looking upward you will find details of beauty. And from behind the thick glass panes of fashion’s changing stage? Inspiration and appreciation of fashion’s whimsy and artful displays of style will loose you, if but for a moment, into the timeless and often fantasy world of fashion.

Breton Stripes At Max Mara

One side note…On this day, March 31, 2018, Jcrew has deemed it to be International Stripes Day.  Befitting that the image below finds me in Jcrew stripes. Breton Stripes forever!

Onward!

Kristin

Self Portrait Off Burberry’s Reflective Exterior.

Fashion & The City

Fashion & The City: February 2018

So it was February. Fashion and the city. Intertwined. As fleeting as time is, the changing windows of fashion move at the speed of the city streets. Constant. To see the world of fashion behind the windows of a city is to see the city itself that these representations of style dwell within. From behind the lens, once again, my shift has changed to add the details of the city and street scenes paired with fashionable style…

Max Mara In Chicago

Max Mara In Chicago

Burberry Tulle & Parisian Architecture, Chicago

Burberry & The Icon Of Chicago

Blue Skies: Michael Kors & The “Bean”

Chicago Details & A Fashionable Mannequin Of Saks

Hugo Boss Style & City Details

Fashion & The City (Zara)

Consider the city surrounds and the fashionable representations therein. City life is certainly a mix of energy and fantasy. Look closer.  Look upward. Appreciation for the visuals and details that surround will only bring gratitude for the very gift that each day brings.  Alas, I will never tire of saying it…“Every day is a gift”.

City love and fashionable love, Onward,

Kristin

The Photographer…

PS: Perhaps capturing myself in my own way is documenting personal change. Internal change in recollection of a moment captured. Time and place. With change comes growth. Onward into change. There is freedom in that, indeed.

City Inspirations: Fashionable Windows Of Chicago In December

Fashionable Chicago

Fashionable Chicago in December. Holiday style, captured.  Another year, from behind the lens, comes to a close. Fashion off the city streets of Chicago. Never the same. So it is with a love of the fashionable windows that I continue to put forth the images that inspire me of fashion’s art. The mannequin and the fashionable changes that drape them. We do what we love, in the end. Perhaps these blog posts of monthly fashionable journeys are visuals that I can recall with delight. That therein is enough reason to capture, compile and publish quietly to the world.  Has it been 5 years of never missing a month in sharing these fashionable images from the city streets of Chicago? Alas, time flies.  As we contemplate and review another years end, it is with thought, consideration and passion that we choose to move forward. It is the only direction.

For the love of what inspires us, onward…

City Scene: Michigan Avenue in December

Tiffany’s Visual Delight

Cartier’s Holiday Fantasy

Saks Fifth Avenue: Holiday Style

Saks Fifth Avenue: Holiday Style

Saks Fifth Avenue: Holiday Style

Celebratory Louis Vuitton

Oh, for the love of Max Mara’s windows. It endures. Perhaps it is the timeless simplicity that the visuals bring forth. But of this December’s windows I must comment on the nod to fashion’s past. Stylish toppers that recall fashionable yesteryear of classic feminine style. In classic black, indeed…

Nod To Fashion’s Past: Max Mara

Max Mara Style In Classic Black

Max Mara: Classic Style In Timeless Black

My Personal Love Affair: Max Mara Windows In Classic Black

Max Mara: Topped In Style

Max Mara

Holiday Color Pop: Max Mara

So it was pure delight to see the Parisian flare reminiscent of Coco Chanel’s French Riviera style and the Breton stripe shirt.   My favorite fashion icon, for certain. Timeless. Cheers, Max Mara, for another classic display.

Max Mara: Striped Delight With A French Flair

New Year’s Nod, Macy’s State Street

Consider what inspires you. Follow it. For in the end, as each day is a gift, it is the joys the delight us that should layer our worlds. So the city streets, the city itself and the changing fashion that represents the season and the art of fashion are a few of my delights that give me immense delight. Onward in the New Year, from behind the lens. A new perspective ahead. Perhaps a new fashionable perspective from behind the lens, too. Change is always good. After all, there is no change unless something changes. Onward in that.

Onward,

Kristin

Photographer In The Reflection, “Selfie”

City Inspirations: Fashionable Windows of Chicago in November

Fashionable Chicago In November

So it was November. And in Fashion, like time itself, change is inevitable. Fashionable streets of Chicago in a month that preludes the Holidays. Yes, fashion and the city. A city bedecked in pre-holiday fete from the windows and beyond. Perhaps no other words are needed except a recap of the visual delights that awaited the eye on the city streets. Fashion and the photograph. If, but for a moment, captured in time. Onward we go to the holidays and celebrations that follow…

Join me in the photographic journey, as we near years end, in appreciation of the windows of fashion on the city streets of Chicago. November in Chicago. The Magnificent Mile and the Gold Coast. Behind the lens, onward…

Fashion And The City, Max Mara

Neiman’s Holiday Style

Holiday style, Neiman Marcus

Holiday Fete, Neiman Marcus

Holiday Dazzle, Neiman Marcus

Holiday Statement, Neiman Marcus

Holiday Prelude, Neiman’s

A Hugo Boss “Holiday”

Mad For Plaid, Burberry’s

Mad For Plaid, Burberry

Layers Of Burberry

Styled Chairs, Burberry

Burberry & The World Of Visual Merchandising

Chair Style: Burberry’s & The World Of Visual Merchandising

Ferragamo: Bedecked In Style

The Windows Of Marc Jacobs

Golden Palms & Classic Black: Michael Kors

Kate Spade, Joy

Silhouettes Of Style, Carolina Herrera

Chanel. Fashionable Statements Endure

Fashionable Chanel

Black And White: Tom Ford

Max Mara, Winter Prelude

Max Mara, Winter Prelude

Max Mara, Winter Prelude

Max Mara, Winter Prelude

Max Mara, Winter Prelude

Max Mara, Winter Prelude

Fashionable Winter Impact: Moncler

Winter Whimsy: Ralph Lauren

Consider with appreciation the fashionable windows that surround. There is always something to delight the eyes. Whether whimsy or pure, classic style, fashion endures to inspire, to excite and to push those of us onward in appreciation. Details of an art form captured from behind a lens. In a moment of time, indeed.

Time.  It is all we have.  The moment.  Let’s relish the moment and with gratitude appreciate the gift of time.  That, therein, is the greatest gift to be reminded of during the holidays. At the onset of Christmas and a New Year, may your inner world be one of appreciation and gratitude.  The world before us.  Our life.  Our perspective.

For me, from behind the lens, onward in that.  Although few may read these words, respond or peruse the images, it is with the inner passion of sharing the art and beauty of fashion that I continue to push forth the images that I am inspired to capture and present.  Impact.  If but for a moment…in time.

Onward,

Kristin

Fashionable “Selfie”, Caught in the reflection paired with city fashion window love

City Inspirations: Fashionable Windows Of Chicago In October

Chicago’s fashionable Windows In October

Chicago in October. Although it took me a few days into November to compile the images of Autumnal fashion inspiration from the windows of Chicago last month, better late than never. Alas, like the Autumn breezes and seasonal changes, my life changes with it. Time. So to look back upon the images of October it is clear that the Fall fashion season in Chicago has moved swiftly forward. Layers and warmth already required. Much cooler breezes blow down Michigan Avenue with force.  Autumn in Chicago…

Did I mention the gray skies?  Oh, onward we go. This is the great Midwest, after all…

Michigan Avenue, Chicago

Fall fashion, onward…

Stunning Style: Neiman Marcus

Burberry Plaid & Autumnal Delights

Window Style: Burberry’s

Plaid & Layered Delights: Burberry

Burberry: Mad For Plaid

Salvatore Ferragamo: Black Delight

Missoni and Saks Fifth Avenue

Ralph Lauren: Bold Impact

Max Mara: Autumnal Delight

Style & Fashion: Max Mara

Autumnal Fashion & Warmth: Max Mara

Max Mara Love: Fashion & Window Dressing

Chicago’s Max Mara: Always A Fashionable Statement

Max Mara Style

Michael Kors: Layered Details

Plum Tones Behind The Windows Of Chanel

Details, Chanel

Fashion On Michigan Avenue: Chanel

Kate Spade: The Wild Side

Shearling and Suede: Marc Jacobs

Consider with appreciation the windows of fashion. Visual merchandising and artistic display of seasonal inspiration. Fashion is always moving forward, as is time. And about that extra layer of fashionable warmth? I’m ready.

Onward,

Kristin

City Inspirations: Fashionable Windows Of Chicago In September

Fashionable Windows Of Chicago: September

Chicago in September. What was a warmer than usual September day on the city streets of Chicago, the Autumnal inspirations were evident. The city was launching into a fashionably forward Autumn. The tops of trees that held just a tinge of Autumnal change off the Chicago River led me to my monthly jaunt in search of fashion’s changing windows. Yet it seems that the lens of my camera pointed at less windows than usual. Perhaps the pending change of season’s brings forth a change within me and what truly inspires me. Change is good. Fashion is everywhere, but there are some months that I seek for greater inspiration than I find. Alas, less is more. A mantra that I follow, indeed.

And sometimes a moment, while in the whirl of the city life that envelopes you, is needed to focus on the details of a city. Simple park benches off the Magnificent Mile. City scenes to take in, for certain…

September Seating, Michigan Avenue/ Chicago

Onward to the collected inspirations found from behind my lens. Onward to being inspired but what each of us are moved by…in appreciation.

Chanel Launch: Gabrielle/Macy’s State Street

One cannot help but meander inside the grate stately old Marshall Fields, now Macy’s, to see the visual of the launch of Gabrielle. In love with the interior and the fragrance, indeed…

Gabrielle, Chanel Launch at Macy’s, State Street

Saks Fifth Avenue: “The Runway Starts At Saks”, Michigan Avenue

Saks Fifth Avenue: “The Runway Starts At Saks”, Michigan Avenue

“The Runway Starts At Saks”

Tom Ford: Fashionably Poised In Black

Visual Merchandising and The Mannequins of Tom Ford

Fashionable Chicago In September

Chicago’s Fashionable Windows In September

From one who never tires of being inspired by the changing fashionable windows, onward in changing seasons and fashion ahead. For the love of a city and it’s fashion, ONWARD…

Onward,

Kristin

“Selfie”

City Inspirations: Fashionable Windows Of Chicago In July

Fashionable Windows Of Chicago In July

Chicago in July. Another jaunt, with a camera in hand, focussed upon the windows of fashion that line the streets of Chicago. Always finding inspiration behind the large glass panes, for certain. Yet change with fashion is constant. Ah, the world of visual merchandising. July sales sizzling and beckoning from many of the windows as thoughts of Autumn’s pending arrival and Summer’s near ending fill the minds of passerby’s. Perhaps the thought of denim is in the air.

Of course, appreciation of the city’s surrounds in the heat of July.  Oh, Chicago. For the love of a city…

Chicago In July: Summer & Buckingham Fountain Delights

So onward to the windows and the mannequin poses that caught my eye. Selecting from behind the lens what moves me and walking past what does not. Fashion adoration, just the same. Well, always a Max Mara adoration.  It seems that the windows of Max Mara fill the pages of these monthly fashionable posts.  Again, visual merchandising and style. There are certain windows that beckon. There are certain streets that beckon. Life beckons us to appreciate. Onward in that, from behind the lens…

Max Mara In July: Always Fashionable

Fashionably Poised At Max Mara

Fashionable Conversations In Three: Max Mara

For The Love Of Max Mara

The Always Fashionable Windows Of Max Mara

Turbans & Accessories Of Style: Max Mara

Window Adoration: Max Mara In July

Windows & Proclamations Of Fashion In July

Burberry’s Mag Mile Windows Of Fashion

Sparkle & Shine Behind Saks Fifth Avenue

Sequins & Shine: Saks Fifth Avenue

Fashion & Art: Saks Fifth Avenue Paired With The Gaugin Exhibit/Art Institute Of Chicgo

Fashionable Windows Of Chicago In July

Lady Gaga & The Windows Of Tiffanty’s

Consider with appreciation the windows of fashion and the fashionable world that surrounds. City surrounds.  Changing windows and changing scenes will always provide inspiration and excitement for the very gift of life. A city provides that excitement. For me, that excitement has always endured.

Onward,

Kristin

City Inspirations: Fashionable Windows Of Chicago In June

Fashion’s Windows Of Chicago In June

Chicago in June. Late June.  On the cusp of July and the heated streets ahead. Yet June itself brings forth a burst of Summer from behind the windows of fashion and onto the city streets. Summer in full swing.  Even on such a day in June clouds and lake breezes brought layers on and off.   Summer in Chicago.  And of inspiration? Inspiration was found and captured behind the lens upon the windows of fashion, indeed.

There are so many words that I have shared and expounded upon on these posts of fashion in the past that should carry through to each monthly collection of images. It is a passion. It is style in a moment. Captured. Perspective. The art form of fashion presented for those that notice. I do. I seek it…and inspiration follows. Behind the lens….Chicago in June.

Salvatore Ferragamo: Black & White Delight

And of Chanel’s windows? Need I say French inspiration abounds? Having just returned from Paris, seeing the French Empire Chandelier a part of this iconic tweeded window of Chanel on Michigan Avenue offered me pure delight. Merci, Chanel, in gifting us a bit of French style onto the streets of Chicago…

Classic Chanel & The French Empire Chandelier

Chanel, Chanel: Windows Of Fashion…

Tom Ford: Sequined Attitude

Saks Fifth Avenue: Visual Impressions Of Fashion

White & The Windows Of Ralph Lauren

Summer White: Timeless Ralph Lauren

Crisp, Classic Ralph Lauren

Summer’s Windows Of Fashion

Capturing Max Mara

In a word…one of my favorite windows of Fashion… Max Mara. Expansive panel windows of striking mannequins that beckon me. Classic and timeless. Strikingly presented. Perfect to have my own recollection of one of these moments in time. In the distance…

Max Mara: Always A Love Affair Of Style

Max Mara Style: Summer

The Windows Of Fashion: Max Mara

Stylish Mannequins Of Max Mara

Max Mara On The Magnificent Mile

Fashionable Style: Max Mara

Coral Delights Of Summer: Max Mara

Burberry Style On The Avenue

Burberry Windows On The Avenue

Details Of Burberry

Michigan Avenue, Tiffanys & Lady Gaga. Style, Onward.

 

Consider the windows of fashion as an inspiration for change.  Fashion changes.  We change.  We continually change. We continually discover.  Life is all about change.  Onward in that.  In appreciation for the fashionable world that surrounds, I move forward.  Next month is merely a click away, indeed…

Onward,

Kristin

Captured While Capturing Fashion’s Windows… in City Treads to walk the Mag Mile