Thursday, February 18, 2010

2 - 18 - 10 On the last day of fashion week, a number of smartly, interesting dressed guys were standing nearby the steps to the tents. A conservatively dressed black guy, in a dark suit, white shirt and black-white striped bow tie, posed for me. He also carried a white briefcase, wore clear lensed, black framed glasses and a close-cropped buzz cut hair. The next guy, had a bright blue scarf around his neck, a grey-zippered-up sweatshirt under his one-buttoned blazer, leather gloves and a light green skull cap over his red hair that went along with his red beard. The Eskimo like dressed man, stood on the steps and I asked him to stand near the wall. He was dressed from fur trappers hat atop his head, down to the fur boots on his feet, fur around his neck, leather pants and lots and lots of extra-large pieces of American Indian turquoise jewelry on his wrists, around his neck and belt. The black guy leaning against the wall was already in a position for me to photograph him, so I did. He wore a knitted loose cap over his long dreadlocks, a long multi-colored striped scarf that hung around his neck, a beige turtleneck sweater under his wool overcoat and wore silver shoes. He told me that he was an abstract painter. A Japanese guy walking by, I pulled over for a photo, since he wore a bright blue short jacket, white jeans and a pair of silver lensed aviator sunglasses that were tucked into his shirt.
The black guy handing out flyer's was dressed in a camouflage jacket and grassy-looking camouflage pants. The black guy standing on the steps, wore a plaid-tan jacket with a tan sweater under it with a maroon scarf that was tied on the side of his neck. He looked like he had on a wig of curly hair, with full, elaborate eye makeup on and under his lip was a small goatee. He got into a pose. Heading out of Bryant Park and walking on 42nd St, an interesting looking guy couple was approaching and I took them both aside for photos. The first tall guy wore mirrored aviator sunglasses, had a large canvas messenger bag, crossed over his shoulder and wore a black leather motorcycle jacket. His open shirt revealed two necklaces around his neck and had light facial hair. His friend told me his was from St. Petersburg, Russia and was more conservatively dressed, even wearing a tie around his neck, under his button-down sweater, which was over a checked shirt. He wore a leather peacoat which was opened with jeans that were tucked into a pair of ankle boots. He had an androgynous-looking face with fine straight hair that came below his ears, almost touching his shoulders.

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