Ever spot a well-dressed person walking down the street and wonder a bit about him or her? I recently stumbled across this YouTube clip of Beautiful Stranger, a fashion-oriented street interview series in New York:
This triggered the following flight of fancy. Perhaps an enterprising, media-savvy reader of Sleevehead could do the same but dedicated to men’s clothing? Ha, maybe call it Handsome Stranger? There’d be one for each metropolis: NYC, LA, London, Paris, Vienna, and more. Sort of a short-form video version of the Sartorialist.
I’d ask largely the same questions (except for the gender-specific ones about skincare and hair stylist of course):
- What is your name?
- Where do you live?
- Occupation?
- What are you wearing?
But perhaps one difference is that I would hire Zoe Havler, the Beautiful Stranger above, as the inaugural interviewer for Handsome Stranger.