Book review: The Sartorialist

The Sartorialist by Scott Schuman

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If your coffee table needs a shot of style, then this is the perfect book.

This book contains very few words, but the pictures are what capture you in a world of colour and fashion.

The Sartorialist began life as blog in 2005 and has become hugely popular around the world.

Photographer Scott Schuman has developed a following for the street-style images he captures of people just going about their normal day.

The book features about 500 full-page photos with the odd blurb thrown in, which gives insight into the people he has photographed.

The streets of New York, Milan and Paris are some of the places he roams looking for people with their own individual style.

Schuman has captured everything from the weird and wonderful through to the gorgeous and charming.

This is a refreshing approach from the celebrity-driven, airbrushed world that magazines thrust upon us everyday. His aim was to show the true world of fashion – how people take the trends from the catwalk and adapt them to the street.

It is the type of book you flick through on various occasions and not one you would read from start to finish. There are plenty of ideas for people who are after inspiration for their wardrobe.

The Sartorialist By Scott Schuman (Penguin, RRP $55)

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