Style Takeaways from The Streets of London

The difference between the street style on display in New York and what was in progress until yesterday in London is a matter of choice. And choice is a luxury that any New Yorker knows has been pulled from right under us, definitively surrendered until Uber can no longer feel morally comfortable charging a $50 minimum of its users on a quotidian Tuesday at 11 a.m. just because it is cold.

Choice isn’t all, though — in London, there was color. There was trial and error and a set of smiling children and statement coats that quite literally spoke (see: “Wake Up!”). There were open toe shoes and matching friends (no doubt to the pleasure of one Khloe Kardashian), 70s salutations and suits in as many permutations as there are double-decker buses in the city. But did we learn anything — specifically that New York could not have taught us, too?

Let us ruminate.

1. The friends who choreograph their outfits also get photographed.

2. London is much warmer than New York, as evidenced by Delfina Delettrez.

Unless, you know, it’s not…

3. Primary colors are best served against each other — then blanketed in a cape.

4. If you’re going to remain on the oatmeal-no-sugar train (blasé), do it with a scarf that could double as a sari.

5. If toddlers were a fixture on the front row in New York, they’re optimal concrete catwalk bait across the pond.

6. Shearling is already alive and well. But to my chagrin, so still are rubber soles.

7. Jane Birkin rules — but that seems like a global lesson that won’t thin out.

8. There was a show that presented at a venue near this shop — and it was best to wear red against it:

But in what is the most important difference between New York and London, it appears as though show goers are happy.

They are actually smiling. Which either means the jokes of the street style photographers have gotten substantially funnier since they left New York, or more likely that there’s a kind of energy over there that we, in our overpriced Uber cars, haven’t quite been able to catch. But is it the weather or is it the fashion?

The, uh, gift of intoxicating fashion.

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