The Sartorialist: Scott Schuman and the style of the street

Since he first turned his lens on the people of New York 10 years ago, Scott Schuman’s work has become an essential part of the global fashion conversation.

Schuman left a job in fashion retail to capture the trends of his home city, posting his shots on his influential blog The Sartorialist. His work rapidly gained popularity in the fashion industry and became instrumental in the rise of street style blogging. It now boasts 14million page views a month.

Scott Schuman

The Sartorialist: X is the third volume of his photographs, spanning Schuman's last three years in New York, London, Milan, Peru, Bali, India and Bhutan. With text kept to a minimum and images left uncaptioned, you never know which city the next picture will take you to. Schuman’s aim is to let fashion speak for itself.

He says: “Some people have found this jarring and don’t understand how such a disparate assortment of ages, races and income levels can be presented in the same space. This may be because people are looking for specific answers to their fashion questions. But I believe this collection of images offers something much more important: inspiration and fuel for daydreams.”

Schuman’s photos have featured in GQ, Vogue and appear in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum and Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.

The Sartorialist X is out now, published by Penguin. It is available as a clothbound hardback in a limited edition of 500 in the UK.