SF Street Style: A Local Stylist Wears Parachute Pants, Vintage + YSL, in the Mission
Photos by Lily Ko
Local stylist Alix Jiang, caught outside Four Barrel (my new favorite hot spot for shooting Street Style), enjoying a nice iced coffee. Adorable bowl-cut and statement glasses aside, the way her breezy parachute pants moved is what really caught my eye. 
Pant-skirt, skirt-pants -- I'm not really sure what to call these. Techically, I suppose, they're zero-inseam harem/parachute pants -- and they're fabulous.
Lily Ko (lily.7x7 @ gmail.com) studied fashion design and merchandising at Central Saint Martins and the Academy of Art University. In addition to writing for 7x7, Lily is an editor at SF Station, works as a freelance stylist and covers food, fashion and fun on her blog, Curated SF.
Absolutely ridiculous. much like the ridiculous faux culot looking, surprise its not a dress, fad a couple of years ago, parachute pants are an abomination. they do absolutely nothing to flatter the female (or male) figure. they look costumey and just because some French model ran down the runway in them does not make them fashionable.
I am sorry, I don't know why this red-blooded, hetro, mountain biking, rugby playing (who also loves watching project runway with my wife and cried during Steel Magnolias) feels so strongly about those two fashion atrocities but I do. I don't believe clothing items have to hug a humans body or show skin to look good. I have seen the most elegant and beautiful woman look like clowns wearing those, trying hard to look fashionable as they walked down the street and their pants/dress/whatever flap in the wind, while others snicker. For the record, at least in my circle (which is rather diverse to say the least) this is the general consensus, albeit I more passionately. Please, I didn't mean to offend or hurt anyone's feelings, it was the first thing I saw in my email box this morning.
By on September 13, 2011
Can we please fix the grammar in the headline?
By on September 12, 2011
Okay, Alix offically makes me miss home. The originality, the flare...the coffee. 100% SF, 100% fabulous!
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By on September 12, 2011
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