Few men can wear a white-grey check hat, combining it with a brown suit, subtle striped shades of brown T-shirt and a metal chain, with conviction! Loe, Ndukwe’s business partner from Nigeria, could. With this nod to the autumn check pattern/monochrome trend he became a right candidate for our Brum Street Style Project photo outside the Birmingham Selfridges store. Liked his belt too.
Keeping insulated, wrapped up and warm in this cold was on our minds as John and I went out on yet another hunt for our Birmingham Street Style Project and in collaboration with The Rakish Gent. And it would make a topical theme for many of our readers. John noticed…
In my 20s when I was a student I had this great voluminous camel wrap coat that was very cosy in cold weather but a pain to dry-clean. In my 30s I wore a chic fitted single-breasted three-quarter length camel coat. When I just turned 40 (I am kinda giving…
It was so cold when we were waiting outside the International Conference Centre to find new faces for our Birmingham Street Style Project and in collaboration with The Rakish Gent! Keeping warm, wrapped up and insulated was understandably the theme of the day. Also, perhaps subconsciously, I was favouring grey…
Meet Kuku, a young Nigerian whom we photographed for our Brum Street Style Project in the city centre on Saturday. She is spotting a monochrome trend still current for autumn/winter 2013. She is wearing a neat white sweater from Debenhams and a black and white short flirty skirt that she…
We chose the Library of Birmingham as a location for our yesterday’s Brum Street Style Project hunt. I liked the colours, textures, and the clean urban/graphic feel of the library ground floor facade – its huge reflective glass panels, revolving doors, metallic bicycle stands. I also hoped that with the…
It was John that scouted Jordie and Mark for our Brum Street Style project outside Bullring – while I was figuring out how to photograph them quickly in low evening sun without getting in the way of gazillions of shoppers who kept going in and out of the shopping centre….