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 & 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.

Fashion & The City

Chicago, January 2018

Fashion and the city. Two loves. The art of fashion and the architectural city. Chicago.  For the last few years I have presented a monthly visual of the mannequins of high end fashion that grace the streets of Chicago. Oh, Chicago. A few snapshots of my love of the city and the fashionable streets joined together.  Fashion is linked with the city it surrounds. To me, the two are entwined.

Like fashion, my life continually changes.  Perspective.  As I have held firmly to the word “onward” in recent years, in the first month of this New Year I was struck by another word.   Prevail.  Just as truth prevails, the city prevails. As a word that can be used in several contexts, in this case,  fashion and the city that surrounds prevails in continually offering us such a vast array of visual delights.   Oh, for the love of the energy of the city, the architectural delights and the changing visual world of timeless and whimsical fashion that awaits behind shiny panes of glass off the streets of a city. Not to mention the sounds of the city.  Or the weather itself that changes the city seasonally.  On this particular day intense fog rolled in and shrouded the city by afternoon end.  Oh, for the love of Chicago in January.

That said, a New Year, a new intent, onward…

Chicago, January 2018

Chicago, January 2018/Burberry

 

Chicago, January 2018/Burberry

Chicago, January 2018

Chicago, January 2018/Tom Ford

Chicago, January 2018

Chicago, January 2018

Chicago, January 2018

Chicago, January 2018

Chicago, January 2018

Fashion and the city.  Architecture and fashion as art.

From behind the lens I offer my perspective which is a personal passion and a love of the city and the world that resides within its realm.  A world of fashionable fantasy, architectural history and reality.  Onward in appreciation of all of those elements.  Life.  The world that surrounds us and the joys we find within our realities are gifts.  From behind the lens I will continue to capture what inspires.  City inspirations, indeed.

Kristin

The Photographer. Self Portrait. January 2018.

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”

Christmas Wishes…

Graced With Boughs Of Pine & Ribbons Of Red…                                                                          (Chicago Board Of Trade)

 

Wishing you and yours a Merry and Bright Christmas filled with joy, happiness and gratitude.  Merry Christmas!

Onward, always,

Kristin

 

“It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air”   – W.T. Ellis

Holiday Lights, Chicago

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 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 May

Fashionable Windows Of Chicago In May

Chicago in May. The apparent arrival of Spring into Summer, indeed. May brings with it the blooms of floral bliss and the energy that warmer weather brings. Especially in the Windy City of Chicago. Appreciation. River life awakens on the Chicago River, Lake breezes waft onto Michigan Avenue and fashionable visuals of warmer days ahead are presented. Inspiring, indeed. That is a constant. City life, onward…

Chicago In May…

Change is constant. Yet consistent is my commitment to capturing the fashionable forms from behind the glass panes of fashion merchandising. Visual merchandising to inspire. And so, yet again, a compilation from behind my lens of Chicago’s fashionable forms. To add to that, for me it is perhaps a love affair with the very art form of fashion: the mannequin itself. Oh, for the love of visual appeal. Escape and travel with me on the journey of capturing moments. Fashionable moments in time…

Breakfast At Hermes

Fashionable Style Statement: Neiman Marcus

Vibrant Style Statement: Neiman Marcus

Coach: Drops & Bags Of Color

Neiman Marcus & Celine

Prada: Floral Infusion

Black & White Delight In Carolina Herrera

Carolina Herrera: Behind The Windows Of Saks

Carolina Herrera: Behind The Windows Of Saks

Behind the Scene: Chanel Style

Carolina Herrera, Dolce Gabanna & The Windows of Jil Sander

Burberry & Brunello Cucinelli

Tom Ford: Visual Intrigue

Mannequins Of Fashionable Form: Tom Ford

H&M: Colorful Forms Of Fashion

Max Mara: Fashionable Faces Of Style

Max Mara: Visual Appeal Of Fashionable Form

Max Mara: Summer Style On Michigan Avenue

Fashionable Love: The Mannequins Of Fashion At Max Mara

Fashionable Statements On The City Street: Chicago

Consider the fashionable world that surrounds you. For me, it is with appreciation that I seek to be inspired by visuals set before me. Style is personal, yet when one sees the vast representation of style, perhaps it furthers one’s sense of personal style. Inspiration. Appreciation. Style, onward.

Onward,

Kristin

“Selfie” In The City I Crave

City Inspirations: Fashionable Windows Of Chicago In March

Fashionable Chicago In March

Chicago in March. With March winds and cooler breezes I strutted down the streets of Chicago in search of fashionable inspiration. Yes, inspiration abounds. But seeking the artistic visual presentation of changing fashion behind the glass windows of visual merchandising is a lure for my lens. Changing style. Changing seasons.  The fashionable windows of Chicago.  A monthly determination to present a photographic compilation of images to inspire…the art of fashion.

Of course, I am enamored with more than merely the fashionable forms that grace the stage of window display. The city itself is always a lure of inspiration. The joy of life. Energy, movement and city life daily inspires. The boats and the river life of Chicago is about to begin…Spring, onward!

Chicago River In March

As one strolls the streets of a city there is me with my camera. It is typical for passerby’s to stop and glance at the windows I am photographing.  Often I see their reflections in the windows that I am photographing as I wait for them to pass.  Yet this month, a moment was captured…a woman sees me photographing the striking windows of Neiman Marcus. She pauses briefly, directly in front of my pointed lens. Perhaps reflecting on what my lens is focussed on. Perhaps contemplating.  Captured. Life. Cause and effect. A contrast.  Life’s moments.

 

Cause & Effect: My Lens & A Passerby

Onward to the fashionable scenes that my lens focussed upon…

Chanel Style On Michigan Avenue & Lake Shore Drive

Style Forward: Chanel

Spring Window Appeal: Chanel

Burberry: Trench & Shoes Of Distinction

Window Display: Burberry Style

Elegance In Poised Style: Neiman Marcus

Neiman Marcus: A Fashion Statement

Fashionable Windows Of Ralph Lauren

Fashionable Visuals Behind Ralph Lauren

Stylish Impressions: Ralph Lauren

Max Mara: Vivid Style Off Michigan Avenue

Patterns & Visual Delight: Max Mara

Stylized & Fashionable Delights: Max Mara

Vivd Red: Bold Color Behind Max Mara

Black & White Fashionable Appeal Max Mara

Window Style: Max Mara

Ferragamo: Spring Style

Flower Power: Michael Kors

Tom Ford: Visual Distinction

Power in Black & White: Tom Ford

Colorful Standard: Patterns & Kate Spade

Lined In Visual Style: Jil Sander

Cobalt Blue Hues: Escada

Cobalt Blue Hues: Escada

The Trench & Colorful Delights: Prada

Embellishments & Style: Prada

Personal Homage & Lure: The Windows Of Max Mara

Consider with appreciation the visual display and art form of fashion. Changing seasons with changing windows of style. There is inspiration to be found, indeed. Finding a commitment in seeking inspiration is a worthwhile goal. Alas, behind the lens of the camera, onward I move…fashion, and Spring, ONWARD!

Onward,

Kristin

“Selfie”: Behind The Lens