Two New Galleries
You know those idle Sunday afternoon moments when you’re just that little bit too bored? When dangerous ideas can masquarade as innocent ones? Had one of those moments, grabbed the camera and headed into the town centre.
Said innocent idea being to capture the high street from a women’s fashion perspective, with the aim of starting a chronicle. It’s a slim possibility this could have been an idea germinating at the back of the brain since 2007 when I took a couple of shots of a red dress I fell in love with at Meadowhall. I had gone prepared as I was killing time while my daughters were at a gig at Sheffield Arena.
Back to last Sunday. Had this ‘brilliant’ idea that by taking regular window shopping shots I could build up a record of women’s high street fashion that would be far more authentic than any magazine retrospective in years to come. Just not sure now whether it was a flash of genius or something that’s going to send me on a fool’s errand. Time will tell.
So, for starters, I give you high street fashion 2007 (only a handful) and the start this last weekend of high street fashion 2009. Was it such a daft idea, or not?