Fashionista by Dave Yoder
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fashion (n)
c. 1300, fasoun, "physical make-up or composition; form, shape; appearance," from Old French façon, fachon, fazon "face, appearance; construction, pattern, design; thing done; beauty; manner, characteristic feature" (12c.), from Latin factionem (nominative factio) "a making or doing, a preparing," also "group of people acting together," from facere "to make"
-ist
word-forming element meaning "one who does or makes," also used to indicate adherence to a certain doctrine or custom, from French -iste and directly from Latin -ista
When I left my California newspaper job to begin freelancing in Milan, I had no interest in fashion; rugby, surfing, and adventures in photojournalism were my passions. But Art Streiber in LA urged me to visit an editor at the Fairchild office in Milan. Absurdly, I took a photo essay I had shot on bounty hunters, a gritty portfolio that was the farthest extreme from fashion photography I could have chosen. To my surprise the editor loved it and hired me, to shoot in my reportage style, backstage at the largest shows in Milan. I had acquired a coveted spot available to only a handful of top fashion photographers and had no idea how lucky I ... See more
- Invocation
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- - Uncertainty
002
- - Going Places
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- - Sidekick
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- - Exiting Left
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- - Ripples
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- Perfect Fit
015
- - The Waiting
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- Flying Bag
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- Next Stop
022
- - Next Look
023
- - Little Time
024
- - Busy Bodies
025
- - That Way
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- Footwork
030
- - Lens Work
031
- - The Boys
032
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- Flowered
035
- - Relief
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- - Mad Dash
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- High Flying
040
- - Finish Line
041
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- Donatella
047
- - The Tank
048
- - The Shawl
049
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