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Tamu McPherson; Image: Getty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When I first saw the street style pictures from socially-distanced Milan and Paris Fashion Weeks\u2014immaculately groomed influencers in head-to-toe designer, with the addition of a face mask\u2014roll in, I groaned a little. I understand the fashion industry’s need to push forward during a pandemic that has decimated huge swaths of the retail sector\u2014but as the death rates from Covid-19 passed a million and the political situation in the US took increasingly dark turns, the thought of indulging in the usual street style pantomime didn’t feel quite right.<\/p>\n

In the last decade street style has become an increasingly ludicrous performance\u2014people who aren’t even invited to the shows deck themselves out in thousand dollar outfits and walk back and forth to try and be photographed, and those who are invited are often decked out in head-to-toe #sponcon.<\/p>\n

And the truth is, people no longer really engage with it. When I started as a digital editor six years ago, we relied on street style galleries for a large chunk of our monthly traffic targets\u2014a few years later and they were barely scratching readers’ peripheries. When you have Instagram, street style feels less relevant\u2014and the images became homogeneous, as photographers were under pressure to shoot the same rotation of 10-15 girls.<\/p>\n

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Sabina Socol; Image: Getty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So imagine my delight when I saw how…\u00a0chill <\/em>a lot of the style was this season. It wasn’t a stream of outlandish ensembles, worn purely for the purpose of being photographed, but a handful of women wearing simple, stylish and relatively normal outfits. Sabina Socol wore jeans, a blazer and worn-in ankle boots\u2014the exact thing you image she wears to brunch on a Saturday. Tamu McPherson’s silk slip skirt and jacket (pictured above) felt like the kind of ensemble she’d actually wear to work. Was everyone chill? Of course not! But it was enough to tickle my nostalgia for the street style of yesteryear.<\/p>\n

Pretentious street style purists like myself will tell you that pictures simply resonate more when a person wears their own clothes. There’s a lived-in quality to the way they move that translates through the lens\u2014a realism,\u00a0<\/em>if you will, that made street style so mesmerizing in the first place. Now, at a moment where we’re collectively questioning the frenetic (and damaging) pace of our consumption habits, it seems as good a time as any to embrace this retro idea of what street style is supposed to be. Evidence? We present exhibits A-E.<\/p>\n

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MILAN, ITALY – SEPTEMBER 23: A model is seen outside Fendi during the Milan Women’s Fashion Week on September 23, 2020 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Christian Vierig\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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PARIS, FRANCE – SEPTEMBER 29: Nina Urgell Cloquell seen wearing white button shirt, brown bag, red pants outside Coperni during Paris Fashion Week – Womenswear Spring Summer 2021 : Day Two on September 29, 2020 in Paris, France. (Photo by Christian Vierig\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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MILAN, ITALY – SEPTEMBER 26: Jacqueline Zelwis seen wearing striped button shirt, bag with cow print, creme white pants outside Ports 1961 during the Milan Women’s Fashion Week on September 26, 2020 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Christian Vierig\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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PARIS, FRANCE – SEPTEMBER 29: Alexandra Guerain seen wearing black cropped jacket, red bag, white button shirt, black pants outside Victoria\/Tomas during Paris Fashion Week – Womenswear Spring Summer 2021 : Day Two on September 29, 2020 in Paris, France. (Photo by Christian Vierig\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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PARIS, FRANCE – SEPTEMBER 29: Camille Charriere seen wearing blazer, Dior bag outside Dior during Paris Fashion Week – Womenswear Spring Summer 2021 : Day Two on September 29, 2020 in Paris, France. (Photo by Christian Vierig\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"author":26240,"featured_media":39,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[17,15,16],"yoast_head":"\nWait, Is Street Style Cool Again?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A socially distanced Milan and Paris Fashion Week are underway, and the street style is uncharacteristically nonchalant. 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