Simple, black, grunge-y. I wasn’t feeling too much color this past Saturday and went with a mainly black out, just popping red in the accessories. As you know, the blog is called One Dapper Street; I just want to remind you that one of my main focuses as represented by my personal style, …
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Casual Fridays are a relatively recent development, yet we see them disappearing slowly but surely. During the dot-com bubble in the 90s and early 2000s, businesses in America and Canada introduced Casual Fridays. This west coast inspired trend was supposed to increase employees’ …
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I run the marketing club on FIT campus, and yesterday we made a little trip to Doneger’s offices. If you haven’t heard of Doneger, their creative department does a lot of trend analysis and forecasting, you should check them out. We got a wonderful menswear forecast in trends by …
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This spring, do me one favor: please don’t shy away from colors and from mixing and matching them. It’s spring – celebrate that wonderful feeling you get when you walk down the street and the first warm rays of sunlight hit the skin of your face. Show how you feel!
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Let’s talk a little bit about fashion in the sense of timing. I think it is pretty obvious to us that the majority of styles return, and that some styles seem to stick around for longer and others seem to disappear instantly. There’s actual terminology for that in the fashion industry: when a specific style …
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Today we’re keeping it simple and casual after all it was a “Sunday”-kinda look. Often you don’t have to wear a button-down or even a blazer to make a dressy impression. A cardigan, which, let’s face it, is just way more comfortable, can also do the trick. This spring we see a lot of colorblocking, so I busted out my tricolor Marc by Marc Jacobs blazer. How to make it work, you ask?
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Dapper, casual, blue three words descriptive of my look today. I got this amazing blue blazer at H&M just last Friday and am so super happy with it. Amongst pastels I consider this blue to be very much in season, so I needed to get something with that color. I didn’t want to overdo it on a casual “museum” Saturday, so I wore it a little more casual …
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Walking the line between casual and dressy. I had an interview today for an International Student Scholarship at FIT (it went well thanks for asking), yet I didn’t feel like suiting up, so I “walked the line”: …
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Not that I was actually alive, just saying – it looks cool in the movies. I was inspired by a more classic, a little bit retro look, but also I was inspired by a guy I saw on the street the other day: …
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Yesterday I had a casting for Versace – yes, I almost dropped dead even being considered. So my motivation in the morning was to kind of go for a Versace summer look. Now I don’t own anything Versace (so it was even more fun trying on those suits 😉 but what I had was an idea …
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