On Tommy Ton and the nuance of street style
Tommy Ton is the gold standard of Fashion Week street style photography for me. I think it’s his attention to details – nuances, gestures – a real feeling for how people inhabit clothes* and not just the rent-a-hype characters.
I love the way he documented the models in Michael Rider’s debut Celine show in July. There’s so much styling in these detail shots, whoever thought of getting Tommy to capture them is a genius ( most likely, Michael tbh). Fashion always looks better in 3-d movement than those generic ’shot from the front’ catwalk pics.
“If you examine the gestural details of every look in his debut Celine collection, you can see how mindfully he thinks about the person he’s designing for,” Tommy said about Michael Rider. And I think you can say similar about Tommy’s approach to capturing the way everyday clothes are worn on the street.
*P.S. This Tommy Ton legacy story will never not be funny to me…
WORDS: Disneyrollergirl / Navaz Batliwalla
IMAGES: Tommy Ton for Celine Spring 26 by Michael Rider
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