Post No Bill: The Transience of New York City Street Style

BY BRENT LUVAAS

DOI: 10.38055/FS010101

MLA: Luvaas, Brent. “Post No Bill: The Transience of New York City Street Style.” Fashion Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 2018, 1-20. www.fashionstudies.ca/post-no-bill/, https://doi.org/10.38055/FS010101.

APA: Luvaas, B. (2018). Post no bill: The transience of New York City street style. Fashion Studies, 1(1), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.38055/fs010101 

Chicago: Luvaas, Brent. “Post No Bill: The Transience of New York City Street Style.” Fashion Studies 1, no. 1 (2018): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.38055/fs010101. 

Abstract: The sidewalks outside New York Fashion Week are lined with makeshift plywood walls. They are designed to keep pedestrians out of construction zones, but they have become the backdrops of innumerable “street style” photographs, portraits taken on city streets of self-appointed fashion “influencers” and other stylish “regular” people. Photographers, working to build a reputation within the fashion industry, take photos of editors, bloggers, club kids, and models, looking to do the same thing. The makeshift walls have become a site for the staging and performance of urban style. This photo essay documents the production of style in urban space, a transient process made semi-permanent through photography.

Keywords:

• photography

• street style

• New York

• Fashion Week

• urban space