Who wants to be a street-style photographer? Jane Keltner de Valle gets snap happy at Paris Fashion Week. Shooting Star Jane, photographed by Hanneli Mustaparta during Paris fashion week, plays street-style photographer for a day.
Jane's pic of Anna Dello Russo.
Teen Vogue accessories director Shiona Turini.
The number of photographers and preeners outside the tents during fashion month has escalated to such heights, it's become an industry--not to mention a show--in and of itself. Street-style photogs get paid to jet-set around the world chronicling never-before-heard-of fashion weeks; making stars out of onetime industry insiders, like Anna Dello Russo--ADR to her fans-- the editor with a penchant for wearing cherries on her head; and even becoming celebrities themselves. From where I'm standing, it looks like a pretty good gig.
Of course, there's only one way to find out what life is really like in someone else's shoes. . . . So during Paris Fashion Week I did just that, enlisting model turned photographer Hanneli Mustaparta as my mentor. First task: getting a camera. "I never use a zoom," Hanneli informs me. "Picture quality for portraits is nicer with a 50mm." I e-mail Canon PR, and hours before my flight, a Rebel T3i with requested lens arrives by FedEx. Let the shooting frenzy begin!
