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August
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Fall’s big street-style trends: Statement tights, shirtless blazers and fancy socks with flats

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(Credit: Getty Images/Edward Berthelot; Daniel Zuchnik/Getty Images)

There’s a reason street style continues to translate into big business for fashion houses: we’re influenced and inspired by those looks. And that’s extra true when it comes to seeing how industry insiders and off-duty models get creative and dress up to attend fashion shows. 

On the street and outside the shows during the various fashion weeks, the runway trends that are resonating with some of the most fashionable folks in the business are on colourful display.   

While some of these showgoers are wearing brand-borrowed clothes or straightforward replications of runway looks, others are creatives putting together chic looks all their own, deftly mixing and matching designer and fast-fashion pieces, and incorporating vintage finds and wardrobe staples in interesting new combinations. Their looks are strong enough to be snapped by the best street-style photographers and worthy of checking out and referring to as we put together our own favourite fall ensembles.  

Inspired by the best street-style looks of the season, here are six styling tips you can use this fall — no shopping required. 

Drape your sweaters 

The best way to wear your knits on transitional weather days? Draped around your shoulders,

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13
June
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How drag bans have made clothing a political statement, according to a queer style expert

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She said she began working on the book six years ago, and it was originally going to be a queer style manual. But then the pandemic started, and she read an article about how LGBTQ people were unable to receive community and gender-affirming care that allowed them to live and present authentically. She pivoted the book to focus on the voices of LGBTQ people and to explore how queer people use clothing and style “as a tool for self-affirmation, as a tool for self-love and as a tool for liberation,” Vita said.

Those themes became more pronounced as she was interviewing people for the book and as state lawmakers introducing hundreds of bills targeting LGBTQ rights, including the drag legislation and bills that restrict LGBTQ-related content in schools.

For example, Van Bailey, a model who uses “they” and “he” pronouns and is featured in the section of the book dedicated to visibility, told Vita that “visual cues” help them find other queer people when they’re out and creates a sense of community.

“If I see other studs or masculine-presenting queer people on a train or out and about, I’m automatically brightening up and being like, ‘Hey, those are my people,’”

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