Summer is so much more fun for fashion then cold seasons, in my opinion.
Warm weather means happy colors, light fabrics, summer dresses, bare legs and no coats.
Cold weather means layering up, which already makes you look more massive then you really are.
The streets are filled with people in dark coats, with red noses and burst lips, being in a hurry, looking grim and tormented by the cold.
Earrings get caught in knitted shawls and winter hats. Rings hurt in tight gloves or they damage the material.
Your hair looks like shit after some hours under a hat.
I could go on, but you get the idea, I think.
All this, to point out how I felt while exploring Seoul during winter. Fashion-wise that is. I felt like a shapeless blob, basically.
Do you remember the logo of Michelin?
Warm weather means happy colors, light fabrics, summer dresses, bare legs and no coats.
Cold weather means layering up, which already makes you look more massive then you really are.
The streets are filled with people in dark coats, with red noses and burst lips, being in a hurry, looking grim and tormented by the cold.
Earrings get caught in knitted shawls and winter hats. Rings hurt in tight gloves or they damage the material.
Your hair looks like shit after some hours under a hat.
I could go on, but you get the idea, I think.
All this, to point out how I felt while exploring Seoul during winter. Fashion-wise that is. I felt like a shapeless blob, basically.
Do you remember the logo of Michelin?
Well, that’s pretty much how I felt, with all my layers on.
Add a multitude of hoods, making me look like The Hunchback of the Notre Dame.
Hung with stuffed-to-the-rim (camera-) bags, holding various maps in my hands, I felt more like a walking hall stand then anything else.
So imagine my surprise when I was approached by a (non-professional) street photographer after a tiring day of strolling through Seoul.
I was heading back to the hotel with a Starbucks latte in my hands, when he -Kim Davids- ran after me to ask wether he could take my picture.
I wondered if he was kidding me, or if there was some catch, since I found myself everything but photograph-worthy material that moment.
But hey, why not give someone the benefit of the doubt, right?
He asked for my card so he could email me the pics, which he kindly did. AND he actually placed them on his blog.
Kim’s blog is nice. It could be a bit more edgy though, more different and more focussed, both in it’s subjects and in it’s photography.
What I like is that he shoots women AND men, young AND old(-er) persons. Asians and caucasians. That is very sympathetic, I think.
It is also very kind of him to email you the pictures he took, as he promised.
You can check out his blog here. There you will also find my pictures.
Thanks, Kim, I’m honoured to have been featured!
Have you ever been photographed by a street photographer? How was your experience?
The three pictures of me are all taken by and all rights owned by Kim Davids from the blog Airwaterphotofree.blogspot.kr
Now you know what I’ve felt like for the past 4 months. Puffy girl.
I can see why he chose you though. The bright pink with the black and white. Is that a sweater wrapped around as a scarf on your neck?
You do look pretty hip, chick ; )
Even when you think you don’t.
bisous
Suzanne
I sympathize with you, Suzanne, having such a long, hard winter. Really!
Having said that, I have never seen you puffy in any of your pics. First of all you are tiny, second you have all these elegant coats and hats. I have those bak home in Holland as well, but not with me here in Singapore.
No, it is a real (huge) scarf around my neck. AND you see small parts of two of the three hoodies I had on my back/in my neck that day;-).
Is Suzanne tiny? I didn’t know that. No I have never been photographed. Not by anyone, unless I asked them. Very flattering indeed. Congratulations.
Greetje
Yes, I think Suzanne would be a size 34/36 in the Netherlands. That’s one of the reasons (I think) that so many vintage stuff fits her, where people like you and me usually miss out because we are more like a size 40.
ha ha! I’m minuscule like a baby dwarf! LOL
I’m a size 4 usually. Not-so-tiny ; ) I would definitely be much shorter than both of you.
The only reason you haven’t seen me looking puffy is because I don’t take photos of it. Big red nose, puffy coat, hat, ski gloves! No way is someone taking a photo of me looking like that.
Size 4???? That’s indeed baby dwarf size, right? I am more like a 12, I think:-(. Aha, you have not been flaunting your puffiness around then. I totally get that; no fun in doing that, is there?!