nyc street fashion – Stilettos & Substance

Playtime

For this post, I was inspired by an effortless easy breezy playtime attire enabling me to accomplish freestyle happy dancing moves in the streets of Soho. I am rocking a loosely fitted button-up white shirt accompanied by silky black harem pants. The simplicity of this outfit brings us back to the basics of sporting an effortless, chic daytime look.

My new Asos cut-out party booties make the dancing commence with ease due to their perfect height of 2.5 inches. Your new moves may surprise you. You know. You may have been a sea lion in a previous lifetime.

To add some hues of color to the look, I am layering with an olive green leather jacket and my trademark purple fur muffler, and a heavy duty screw cuff bracelet from Miansai.

–Mona Hamid

Photography by Sarah Jean Fatheree

Outfit Details:

Cut-out Booties: Asos.

Silk Harem Pants: J Brand

White Shirt: Zara

Leather Jacket: Zara

Fur Muffle: Bloomingdales.

Bracelet: Miansai

The Mustard Man

I decided to add another feature to my blog where i can instantly share some interesting fashion finds that i encounter on the go. I figured its the best way to really involve my readers first hand with the spontaneous energy of New York City. This post’s interesting fashion encounter was “The Mustard Man”.

Spotted in Chelsea’s art gallery district rocking a monotone outfit composed of varying textures of mustard brown shades. This composition consisted of a tailored loose fit cropped trouser worn effortlessly with a jersey T and a suede bomber jacket.

I am automatically drawn towards the shoes among other details. He is attiring an extravagant pair of statement loafers embroidered with my observation of an eastern ethnic print.

He finishes off the look with a simple brown leather man bag in conjunction with some chilling Ray-Bans and a Fedora hat.

I would like to finish off this post with a quote from the Great Gatsby the entices similar feeling as i do towards a random well dressed stranger ( with methodical expectation that he dresses this spectacularly the remaining 364 days of the year). “Ah” she cried. “You always look so cool”, speaks Daisy Buchanan as she complement Jay Gatsby’s chilling attire.

-Mona Hamid

Chelsea Highline

This week’s post was taken on-the-go on a walking self tour towards Chelsea and the Highline. It was a beautiful day and my family came to visit me in New York City. The photographer is one of my favorites – Mummy.

Nostalgia – a wistful desire to return in thought or fact to a former place or time. Walking past the beautiful wall art and inspirational words evoking future dreams initiated by childhood innocence was worth capturing and definitely brings me back as I walk by it with my loved ones.

I am wearing my new metallic oxford shoes from Vince Camuto. My outfit consisted of a vintage yellow floral printed button up oversized top paired with my favorite red, waxed Hudson Jeans. I accessorized with both my new prescription wide framed glasses and my new unconventional black sunnies that I purchased from 5 points on a recent trip to Atlanta Georgia. Lastly i am rocking a light weight grey jacket that i bought a while back from Reiss.

I love this photo because it visually captures the essence of the fast paced on-the-go energy of New York City with the echoing mentality that “my time is very precious and I want to make this my decade”.

Along the highline I come across this mural with a sentence written in Arabic with the English translation below “ This book belongs to its owner Fathallah Saad. He bought it with his own money at the beginning of March 1892”. I didn’t understand what it was about, but im sure there’s a story. I wonder what book he bought.

Ice lollies on a sunny pre fall day seem like a good reward after a two hour exploratory walk starting on the east of the island all the way to the Chelsea vicinity and ending up on the highline. Mint cucumber and mango passion fruit- home-made organic and delightful.

My baby niece “bubz” experimenting 🙂

A very cool mural placed above a parking garage. Possible thought of a name for it..”The Road to nowhere” aha.

Here my mother the photographer captures my outfit in different settings along the highline. The beauty of this post is its organic feel , the family ambience and our experimenting with visual inspirational settings that came along the way.

Photography by Nelly Karim.

Styling, Writing and Editing by Mona Hamid.

Outfit Details:-

Top: Vintage (Garment District, Boston MA).

Pants: Hudson Jeans.

Oxford Shoes: Vince Camuto.

Prescription Glasses: American Apparel.

Sunnies: 5 Points (Atlanta GA).

Jacket: Reiss.

Vintage Daze

On a recent trip to Austin, Texas along with some of my fellow fashion bloggers, we made it our mission to visit some of Austin’s many unique vintage stores. The list was endless, however we managed a cover a decent amount of stores and I managed to find some enticing vintage finds to add to my archives.

Here I am rocking a black sheer loosely fit vintage top that I bought from a really cool store called Feathers Boutique. Feathers Boutique provided a modern twist to vintage clothing. It was one of the stores I spent the most time in. I was amused with vintage clothes that have been altered in-house to modern day silhouettes – a fantastic idea. This sheer top is an ideal throw on with denim shorts during breezy summer days and is ideal for effortless bohemian-esque music festival attire.

Here, I decided to pair the blouse with a pair of black pants and suede booties, which were also a vintage find from my trip. I never owned cowboy boots and not sure yet if I can pull them off, however in spirit of ‘Texas’ I managed to find an intermediate- cowboy booties!

Last but not least, I accessorized with a brown vintage leather bag that was one of my lucky random finds from Room Service Vintage, and two golden string necklaces from Frock on Vintage. Our Austin vintage shopping trip was ultimately a success!

–Mona

Photography by Sairinah Smith