Meet Ali. He's an 84 year old Turkish tailor (formerly a doctor) living in Berlin. He has 18 children and over 80 suits. Ali's sartorial adventures are documented on photographer Zoe Spawton's amazing blog What Ali Wore. Zoe is Australian and hardly spoke any german when she started photographing Ali, but after seeing him walk past her work every day at precisely 9:05, decked out so thoughtfully from head to toe, she asked in broken german and gestures if she could take his picture. He consented (obviously) and they've had a very fruitful relationship ever since, winning all kinds of blogging awards and being featured on cnn and Huffington Post.
Ali definitely has his favorite outfits, usually based around a suit, but he's flexible in his style too, not one to be tied down to any one look. This whole concept just brought such a smile to my face, and makes me think of fashion as fun and playful again. This is street style at its purest.
I think there's a few things we could learn from Ali...
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