Is street style, which today seems more like an extension of fashion shows, still authentic? And who truly has influence today?
Suzy Menkes, the British fashion critic, put it quite sophisticatedly in her essay for the New York Times, where she offers a fitting metaphor of crows and peacocks. “Someone once called us ‘black crows’—us fashion people who gathered in front of an abandoned, crumbling building downtown, wearing Comme des Garçons or Yohji Yamamoto uniforms. ‘Whose funeral is this?’ passers-by whispered to each other with a mixture of caring and perverted interest, while we slowly lined up in front of some cool, underground show,” recalls Menkes of the 1990s.
And she continues: “Today, people look more like peacocks than crows. They pose and show off in dresses with various prints, balance on spider legs in club sandwich-high boots, or thigh-high boots, and hide under intricately-shaped coats decorated with 3D flowers.” It must be added that Suzy Menkes wrote the observation back in 2013, almost ten years ago, when street
