Katrina Szish

Angel Otero, artist "I tend to highlight specific clothing when I dress. For example, if I'm wearing a shirt that is a unique layout or texture I will mute out the rest of my clothes so the shirt stands out. I like living every day with the same balance, not just in my style but also in my life." Stacey Bendet, designer, Alice & Olivia "I always love a high/low look — a glamorous skirt or tailored pant back to a fun T-shirt...bell-bottoms back to a dramatic coat....

The art of street-style photography is not a new phenomenon, and no one knows that better than Amy Arbus, who documented one of New York City's most dynamic decades in her "On the Street" column for the Village Voice from 1980 to 1990. "The only direction I was given was to photograph anyone that made me turn my head," Arbus explains.

I sit (bookended by manspreaders) on the R train during my morning commute and scan the sea of shoes and bags and skirts and suits and denim and coats and stacked rings and ironic tattoos and rainbow-bright hair. Between Whitehall Street and Fifth Avenue I count twelve military jackets, eleven J.