Brooklyn Welcomes the Skinny French Fashions of Sandro - NYTimes.com: "... the arrival of Sandro presumes a different crowd: more moneyed, less artisanal, more wistful for the Continent. Indeed the only other customers in the store while I was there were two women who talked about Paris and its style. (Though to be fair, they also talked about Palo Alto, Calif., and its style.) I was listening to them while trying on a pair of faux creepers ($309, down from $515) I had spotted in the store window a couple of weeks earlier after a show across the street. On the top there was stitching around the toebox, but the black crepe sole was relatively thin, making the shoe less ska and more hard bop. The leather felt thin once on the foot, but it’s likely to break in remarkably, so I bought them...." More at: http://us.sandro-paris.com and Sandro (US) @Sandro_US New York, NY · sandro-paris.com
Downtown Moscow Style - Video - NYTimes.com: "Andrei Tolstov, a model from Moscow, says style in the Russian capital is mostly diverse. The mentality from the Soviet times still influences the way people dress, he says."