Vogue Runway’s photographers Phil Oh and Acielle reflect on the ways street style became more personal, experimental, and joyful in 2021.
“more genuine,” often quieter looks in place of the OTT outfits of the Before Times. By September, her photos reflected the optimism and excitement of re-emergence, but still felt dictated by personal style, not trends or brands. Head-to-toe runway looks were rare, while clashing prints, haphazard layers, and vintage proliferated. “You really felt how people love to get dressed and get back to their social lives,” Acielle adds.
For Fashion Week regulars, it reflects a dual desire to re-embrace fashion and retain a degree of self-awareness in a fraught world. But much of the shift also comes down to the changing crowd outside the shows. With travel restricted between Asia, Europe, and the United States, Milan and Paris had fewer New York editors in the crowd, while the opposite was true stateside.’s longtime street style photographer Phil Oh was happy to see designers fill the empty seats with friends and family.
Acielle observed a similar rise of the non-professional “fashion enthusiast” in Milan and Paris: “I saw a lot of people just hanging around the shows, like at Rick Owens—it was all people who admire Rick and love his clothes, even if they weren’t going to the show,” she says. “It felt like a more diverse crowd [at Fashion Week] in Paris, too, which was a really nice surprise.”
What do their observations mean for street style in 2022? The Omicron variant has quickly made the upcoming fall 2022 season feel wildly unpredictable. Will runway shows resume in person, or will designers pivot back to ? Is travel going to be remotely possible? Whatever brands decide will invariably affect Oh and Acielle’s work. While we wait for updates in the new year, they’ve edited their favorite photos of 2021; scroll through them all below.
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