Philadelphia Street Style: Lukas, Chestnut St

Finally, I have new pictures to post from the streets of Philadelphia! It's been a long time coming. First, a brutal winter drove fashion indoors or buried it beneath a pile of layers. Then, I got buried beneath a pile of work that I'm just beginning to dig my way out of. Then, New York Fashion Week came, supplied me with thousands of pictures, and provided a neat justification for the complete lack of motivation I had to suffer through the cold for the sake of photo-documenting style. But all that's coming to an end. Spring is here (or nearly — it is, in fact, snowing outside as I write this), and I'm ready to be a Philly-based street style blogger again. 

But here's the thing: it's one thing to decide you're going back out on the streets, and it's quite another to actually get some shots. Friday was my first successful day back on the streets of Philly, but it wasn't my first day back out. I'd actually gone out a couple of times prior to that and come back with nothing. I don't know if it was Philadelphia or me. It's hard to adjust from shooting at Fashion Week, where style is so completely lacking in subtlety you hardly have to look for it. And it's hard to get your style radar working again, when it's been sitting idle for so long. This past Friday, I walked around for nearly four hours before I finally decided to stop someone. That someone was Lukas, a fashion student, single-handedly bringing back the headband bandana.

Here, Lukas is wearing a jacket by American Eagle Outfitters, another jacket beneath it by Lost and Found by Ria Dunn, a shirt from Guess, a pair of Diesel jeans, and a pair of Puma sneakers by Hussein Chalayan. Lukas describes his style as "causal streetwear." He's been listening to a lot of Grimes and Crystal Castles lately.