The Style Issue
What is Philadelphia style?
What is Philadelphia style? There's no overarching fashion presence here, no runways, no spindly editors to tease out trends or make pronouncements. From New York, Alexander Wang was dressing Kate Moss in shredded denim shorts last summer, all unaware that girls from Mayfair to Pennsport never gave them up in the first place. Style here comes from the most organic place — the fertile dirt of a university town with an art scene and an attitude, a city that belongs as much to the people who make it run as the people who run it. In the following pages (and on our cover, above, where blogger Atrios, aka Duncan Black, gets on his soap box), local tastemakers play dolls with a few of our favorite Philadelphians. Their spring looks were sourced from independent designers, corporate churners like our friendly hometown URBN and the pick of the thrifts. This is the land of Birds fans who still proudly wear their Zoobaz, after all.
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One presumes that, unlike Sarah Palin, Atrios/Duncan didn't try to keep the clothes.
One presumes that, unlike Sarah Palin, Duncan/Atrios didn't try to keep the clothes afterwards.
by flory on April 8th 2009 9:51 PM
And where's the blue dot?
it's not growing. it actually has the 2nd fastest declining population in the U.S.