I need to determine where in this swamp of unbalanced fashion is the squad toad of truth or personal style. From a far it may seem as if she threw on a few too much cloth in the dark and walked out the door or that she, excuse the following harsh words, may be homeless, but this is far from the truth. What I see is a young lady walking out of a world renown fashion school, Parsons, going out for some lunch. She, a student, may in fact be the next ‘big thing’ and we don’t even know it. If Santa can travel the globe in a nightfall, she may be the inspiration for Alexander Wang or Rick Owens, unlikely but it too could be the toad of truth. From her shoes, sweat pants to her patriotic bag is something rare and unseen in this trendy bubble we live in. She is the 1% and you who think otherwise are in the 99 percentile. We, the 99% of you, like to believe personal style is wearing a leather bracelet or adding a camouflage jacket over your double breasted blazer (a menswear uniform during fashion week), but really it’s not. We are just following trends. “Let’s all layer bracelets together and call it an arm party” or “oh snap, the guy from the Sartorialist is doing it, I’m going to do it too”. That isn’t style. Sure you can be inspired from it all, but what’s so inspirational if you’re going to walk into Saks and buy the mannequin plus it’s clothes. What I’m saying here is to dress outside the box and try on new things. Mix the high and lows and not head to toe Givenchy. Scott Schuman doesn’t shoot people and their labels, he doesn’t capture a certain trend but rather creates moments with eccentric and stylish beings. Just as Scott and his Mark II views this world we should too. Look beyond the color blocking and give some thought to a pair of red sweat pants and corduroy overalls. Shot by Paul Chin of Lavish-Livez.com

I need to determine where in this swamp of unbalanced fashion is the squad toad of truth or personal style. From a far it may seem as if she threw on a few too much cloth in the dark and walked out the door or that she, excuse the following harsh words, may be homeless, but this is far from the truth. What I see is a young lady walking out of a world renown fashion school, Parsons, going out for some lunch. She, a student, may in fact be the next ‘big thing’ and we don’t even know it. If Santa can travel the globe in a nightfall, she may be the inspiration for Alexander Wang or Rick Owens, unlikely but it too could be the toad of truth.

From her shoes, sweat pants to her patriotic bag is something rare and unseen in this trendy bubble we live in. She is the 1% and you who think otherwise are in the 99 percentile.

We, the 99% of you, like to believe personal style is wearing a leather bracelet or adding a camouflage jacket over your double breasted blazer (a menswear uniform during fashion week), but really it’s not. We are just following trends. “Let’s all layer bracelets together and call it an arm party” or “oh snap, the guy from the Sartorialist is doing it, I’m going to do it too”. That isn’t style. Sure you can be inspired from it all, but what’s so inspirational if you’re going to walk into Saks and buy the mannequin plus it’s clothes. What I’m saying here is to dress outside the box and try on new things. Mix the high and lows and not head to toe Givenchy.

Scott Schuman doesn’t shoot people and their labels, he doesn’t capture a certain trend but rather creates moments with eccentric and stylish beings. Just as Scott and his Mark II views this world we should too. Look beyond the color blocking and give some thought to a pair of red sweat pants and corduroy overalls.

Shot by Paul Chin of Lavish-Livez.com