It's the New York Times! It's "All the news that's fit to print!" As a journalism major in school, I was taught that the New York Times is the newspaper authority. So when you're featured among the pages, print or digital, it's...ummm...kind of a big deal.
Shouts to Josh and Trav of Street Etiquette who earned a feature on NYT Fashion for their development of a niche of fashion that orginated eras ago--Dandy style. They're hailed in the article for their partnerships with companies like Nike and Sebago, congratualated for their planned college tour and admired for their step out of the normal static street style poses and introduction of active, in motion editorial personal style shots.
Any one who's read Street Etiquette knows what a leap it is for men's fashion. Even Mos Def, now mentor of the duo recognizes their influence saying, "They want to elevate the awareness level of young people in their communities. As opposed to ‘We’re better than y’all,’ it’s ‘You can be this, too.’ All of it is a political expression,” he said. “White people have all kinds of archetypes, from Brad Pitt to Al Bundy, everything in between. The cultural paradigms that are aggressively promoted to young black people and young poor people are extremely narrow.”
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Josh and Travis of Street Etiquette collab with a few creatives for their Black History Month tribute, Sewn from the Soul. It honors the great black men of intellect and art who also exemplified style, namely Huey P. Newton, Miles Davis and Cornell West. See the rest of the editorial and the video at Street Etiquette.
My Saturday started bright and early on the academic side at a school in Harlem where I tutor reading and continued beautifully with lunch with my friends Melissa and Shaena, shopping in Soho, and running into these guys.
Josh and Travis of the blog, Street Etiquette. I love their variations of prep.
Travis (left) infuses a little skater boy into his look with his converse-y kicks. Josh (right) adds an urban edge to his look with high top boat shoes and an army green jacket.
O.M.O. Writes was featured in a round up of 40 Fab Bloggers. Shouts to friends also featured: Jared Lowe of LoweFactor, Christina of LoveBrownSugar, Celia of A Fraction of Fashion, Najwa of Styleaholics, Rae and Gabe of Stuff Fly People Like, Teena of Fashion For Breakfast, Jess of Glamazons, Josh and Travis of Street Etiquette, Saneeta of Chic Inspector, sP of Swagger of Paris, Misha of The Fab Chick, oh! and last but not least Claire of The Fashion Bomb.
It's so funny...we were all blogging and linking and tweeting each other. But this is great, so another shout to Zandile [and Terrence] for compiling such a great list on which to share company.
See the full run down //here//