Sketching Street Style

Few markets are as over-saturated as that of street-style photography. While I’ll happily proclaim my fandom of the likes of The Sartorialist and The Facehunter, altogether the wealth of street style online is a little overwhelming. This is exactly why, when I stumbled across What I Saw Today thanks to a post on the JC Report, it felt like a flood of fresh fashion air.

Meet Designerman (aka: Richard Haines)—the brains behind this ingenious style blog. It’s essentially a log of the styles Haines encounters on the streets of New York City (or at the Strand, post-coffee with friend and filmmaker Amos Poe). But, instead of snapping a photo, he sketches. No stranger to the business, according to his blog bio, Haines cut his sartorial teeth at the likes of Calvin Klein, Bill Blass, Perry Ellis, and Sean Combs. One more reason to put your best fashion foot forward when walking the streets of New York.