The street report: Spring can be manic, spring is magic

What people are wearing around town these days

Revisit the last street report here.

During an interview following an anniversary fashion show, Ralph Lauren told me that the best advice he could give to a fellow creative is that you’ve got to find a way to be inspired by your life.

I think about it all the time. And am really coming around to the idea that winters in New York are like a sensory deprivation tank where the sense being deprived is inspiration.

There are conditions that make feeling inspiration effortless: pleasant weather, an intentional green thumb, the feeling that you are free, even encouraged, to move how you naturally wish to.

I’m ready for the emergence of the sack bag

It unlocks the ease of feeling gratitude. And gratitude brings satisfaction, brings joy. It opens us up to seeing what beauty is always around. To going so far as to make our own beauty too.

But over the winter the external stimulus is limited. We lose touch with nature and that can easily facilitate one’s forgetting the effortlessness of gratitude. Of what it is to feel full.

So what we do, I think, over the months that make up winter, when connection to the oneness that is all around us is strained, is we turn inward to examine what we think we would need to feel that satisfaction right now.

In a way, it awakens the dream makers within us, connects us to the fantasies of what our lives could be. It is ambition at its most benevolent — more kids? a different job? better light soaking through the window? Dream it up. Make it happen.

Yes, if you let it, I believe that winter can activate our turning inwards to discover stimulation. To make up for what is missed within our environment.

And then once the spring comes back around with its buds and its color and all of its new prints?

Here’s Krissy in silk green pants

The western summer hat, in black to offset many long layers of denim

The set has got to be La Double J, no? But the star player is the leopard accent and this is the one

Eliou’s yellow surf pants, please

Young love in jersey cotton pants and slingback flat sandals (the shoe backs anchor the outfit/give it some polish)

It’s amazing to be girls. I love cowboy boots.

Bliss. Heaven. Signs of life! A deep exhale and the sensation of reconnection to the world and most chiefly,

thank God,

the people out about and around you.

Silver bangle, bandana, high socks, platform sneakers. Yes!

It’s an embodied reminder that smacks you in the face when you walk out your door and can immediately feel that even when it seems absolutely out of reach, inspiration is always here.

Summer plaid and a crossbody