Sur La Rue: Gabriele

Name: Gabriele Ambrosi de Magistris Verzier

Location: Montreux - Switzerland

Which culture most influences your style:  Well one would say my Italian origins have rather obviously had an influence on my style, but my style is actually a blend of all my different phases. Punk and the British 2-Tone scene definitely left their scars, in the shape of my extremely tight slim pants and my polo look.

I wear a lot of family owned Vintage, yet tasteful accessorizing and colour matching is something I acquired from my trendy parents.

Being at a cross-road of cultures, my own life, and the close people I share it with all influence my style.

Ideal shopping experience (vintage, second hand, boutique, shopping mall, bazaar etc) and why: A walk… In Milan, In London, In Stockholm just strolling in the right areas. Vintage is always good fun, but I deeply enjoy shopping for basics and accessories in my new geographical reality…I love shoes and scarves. I need to move from shop to shop, ambiance to ambiance feeding my brain with colours and memories that will tell me what to wear and how to wear it, in order not only to look my best, but to bring me back to how good it was being where this comes from.

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Want more, be sure to follow Gabriele and his transgressive electronic band Jak & the Wow.

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Sur La Rue: Vittie

Name: Vittie

Location: London/Lausanne

Which culture most influences your style: I tend to take a multi-faceted approach to fashion. I love African prints and vibrant colours and some aspects of London Street fashion because there are no rules!  That said, I also have an innate classic style which is interspersed with an occasional playfulness, depending on my mood, the occasion and the season. So really, my personal style is a cocktail of my international experiences having lived in several countries, some call it an “Afropolitan” influence but I shy away from labeling  because for me its just whatever I feel like wearing on any given day!

Ideal shopping experience (vintage, second hand, boutique, shopping mall, bazaar etc) and why: I have my favourite small French boutiques where I am likely to find pretty and uncommon pieces, and Portobello and Spitalfields Markets in London for hidden treasures made by small, independent designers. I occasionally browse through vintage shops when I can but I’m still yet to find an amazing bargain!

Otherwise I stick to boutiques and stockists for classic handbags and shoes from my favourite designers. I tend to go a bit crazy during their sample sales and other sale seasons! I have one favourite high street store which never disappoints, but that is a secret I’m not willing to share yet… J. I also get my African prints directly from local markets whenever I visit family in Accra, and I work with local tailors to create an outfit that works for me.

Why? Because I like to be different!

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Sur La Rue: Gaia and Arianna

Name: Gaia Segattini and Arianna Rubiconti

Location: Italy

Which culture most influences your style:

(Gaia) Mens traditional clothing, Japanese fashion designers, origami, early American punk bands and 90’s Riot Grrrls, Blythe dolls.

(Arianna) Basically,I love music and I like people who do not seem to “act.” I’m fascinated by things which sound different,like “trashy” 80’s music to Jeff Buckley and Paul Weller. vintage cars,men suits,multicolor and geometry….. Jil Sander, Balenciaga, Bernard Willhelm, Junia Watanabe, Coco Chanel and many more

Ideal shopping experience and why:

(Gaia) Vintage because it always surprise you and it’s different from everything, handmade because it shows passion of the artisan, outlets because is (sometimes) the only way I can purchase something from my favorite designers that I could never get at retail prices.

(Arianna) I like vintage cause you can find something unique and often you can also smell a “story” or invent one. Outlets are “reality”….. they give you the chance to buy something beautiful with normal money. I like to buy things when I travel, I love to wander and find interesting shops; in general I’m fascinated by great stores with great designers but they also scare me cause I feel like “ok I can’t afford anything and the shop assistant already hates me”. In the end I do prefer small shops and I think that now is a period in which we have to face the reality: the lack of quality and the standardization of many mass-product is definitely boring. Handmade will become more important.

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Sur La Rue: Max

Name: Max Krüger

Location: Berlin

Which culture most influences your style: I cant lie, its the usual suspects: Europe and North America. South African fashion made a big impression on me too.

Ideal shopping experience (vintage, second hand, boutique, shopping mall, bazaar etc) and why: Finding accessories on markets and bazaars. Little things I can always wear, from places that have a meaning to me. For me they become more than just a thing that looks nice, as memories and feelings are attached to it.

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Sur La Rue: Charles Festa

Meet the funny, innovative and former community manager at Threadless, Mr. Charles Festa.

If you want to learn more about social media and also laugh until your stomach aches, you should follow him on twitter or visit his website.

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Sur La Rue: Montreux Edition

I ran into this stylish Congolese couple during the Montreux Jazz Festival and had to take their picture!

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Sur La Rue: Khara

Name: Khara

Location: Minnesota

Which culture most influences your style:

I get accused of dressing like some sort of cross between Sporty Spice and Bruce Willis in The Fifth Element. I look toward East Asia street culture for inspiration, and I’m a sucker for anything futuristic. If I could get away with it I’d probably dress like something out of Resident Evil. Utility, subtle originality and craft are characteristics I look for in clothing, regardless of cultural origin. I’m not so mentally organized that I think in terms of assembling outfits, I gravitate towards boutique clothing which means that I end up with items that present me with a sartorial conundrum (think metallic skirt or white tie). 

Ideal shopping experience (vintage, second hand, boutique, shopping mall, bazaar etc) and why: With the sole exception of shoes and underwear, second hand and vintage paired with the occasional bankrupting designer piece.  There’s a danger in expressing yourself through consumption and I feel uneasy siphoning money into the coffers of large companies because I’ve seen the women on those assembly lines. When I can, I buy clothing made through grassroots livelihood projects. The shirt I wore in the photo shoot was handmade by a teenage survivor of the sex industry in Seoul.

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Sur La Rue: Shala Monroque

Shala Monroque, the St. Lucian fashion editor, art curator and trend setter is a fashionable chameleon. Her style is youthful, chic and concise.

(photo credits: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)

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Sur La Rue: Giovanna Battaglia

Giovanna Battaglia is an Italian fashion editor and familiar face on many street style fashion blogs. Her feminine and classic style has me daydreaming about visiting Milano for the weekend.

(photo credit:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8) 

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Sur La Rue: Janine

Name: Janine Jauvel

Location: Paris, France  & London, UK

Which culture most influences your style:
I would my style is extremely eclectic, hence I am constantly being influenced by people, cultures and environments. In particular I take great inspiration from the North African cultures (ie Morocco) as I love the way women adorn themselves, derived from their historical culture, applied in present day.

Ideal shopping experience (vintage, second hand, boutique, shopping mall, bazaar etc) and why:
The ideal shopping experience would be Vintage because each individual item is unique and carries much history, making shopping more exciting and unpredictable.

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