People-watching is one of the best parts of urban travel – seeing how global fashion trends get filtered through regional style, or what unique brand of sartorial crazy the locals have dreamt up. Of course, if you can’t make it to the style capitals yourself, you can always rely on the pathological need of the fashionable to be photographed, and to have a chance to illuminate the details of their outfits in print and online. To judge from the diabolically-named site Hel Looks (the Hel stands for Helsinki), the Finns are giving the Japanese of Fruits, and the “Look Book” New Yorkers a run for their money in the street fashion department. There are 46 pages of style mavens, batty grandmas, and androgynous fashion weirdos to sift through – demonstrating some serious dedication to the art of the street parade. The photographers behind the site have even rounded up a broad slice of their work into a museum exhibition, now on view in Copenhagen. (via Gridskipper)
Posted on Feb 13, 2007 09:30 PM by kristin
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