I’m still not really sure what Maria Kouka does besides show up places looking ridiculously hot, but right now, that’s a good enough job description for me. So here she is at the launch of some new store in London dropping a serious amount of cleavage and reminding me of a British Katy Perry . Only one that I don’t have to ever hear sing, which officially makes Maria 10 times hotter. » view all 11 photos Photos: WENN.com
Long before “street-fashion photographer” was even a job description — before the Sartorialist first spotted a pocket square folded just so, before Tommy Ton even knew what a platform shoe was — there was Bill Cunningham’s regular New York Times photo-column, “On the Street,” a weekly feature capturing the range of looks and combinations found on the sidewalks of New York. Cunningham’s eye might be attracted by the recurrence of the color red, for example, or a dozen women wearing some variation of a black suede ankle boot. If Cunningham’s weekly photo-essays are catnip for people who care about fashion, they’re indispensable for people who don’t: The French, wisely, believe it’s important to have at least a glancing interest in fashion to be culturally literate, and on that score, “On the Street” neatly fulfills the minimum weekly requirement and then some.