"Scott, the Business" or "Scott Won't Shoot Uggs" - Fashionista - Fashion Designers, Models, Shopping, Style

the picture we took of scott schuman.jpg Last fall, we told you Scott got a book deal. And just now, the real details are starting to emerge:

The book’s coming out under Penguin, it’s call The Sartorialist, will sell out in days. More interesting: It’s getting its own pop-up shop in Colette - The Sartorialust - which will include racks of accessories (“great pyjamas, great suspenders”) to go alongside stacks of his tome.

Also possibly in the works: A certain shopping “deal” and a style guidebook a la Tim Gunn.

Is Scott the fashion world’s next mega-brand? We don’t know, but the best part of his profile in the Times UK this weekend? The fact that he wouldn’t shoot a girl’s outfit because she was wearing Uggs.

Discuss!

UPDATE: You may have noticed some changes in the above story - Scott’s assistant says that the only part of the Times story (in terms of business deals) that’s fairly certain is the pop-up store, which is slated to open up in Colette (other locatiosn are not definite quite yet). Who says newspapers have fact checkers?

posted by guest

Mar 16, 2009 10:26AM

Sartorialist and Garance Dore... are they or aren't they? There have been so many rumours flying around about this recently, but that article gives thee impression he's still married with kids..

Mar 16, 2009 11:23AM

Kudos to Scott for not shooting Uggs-wearing ladies. I'm always stunned to see normally chic or stylish people wearing them. There must be a way to keep your feet warm without wearing the shape-less, style-void boots as everyone else.

Mar 16, 2009 11:30AM

Thank god i HATE HATE HATE Ugg boots, girls where i am from where them with EVERYTHING (skirts, dresses, shorts, jesns, leggings, tights, pants, pyjamas, work uniforms, playsuits) and look like generic idiots. They actually think they are cool.

Mar 16, 2009 12:18PM

to guest1: unless this isn't true; http://www.readmetro.com/show/en/NewYork/20090303/1/8/

Mar 16, 2009 12:48PM

Good for Scott! I'm happy not to be seeing any Uggs on The Sartorialist.

Mar 16, 2009 1:36PM

my hatred for uggs aside, Scott does make a point of shooting more classic sophisticated style - ugss don't fall in that category

posted by penneya

Mar 16, 2009 2:18PM

fair enough, but if her outfit was worth noticing couldn't he just shoot her from the knees up? i mean, it's still winter, and heels aren't fun to walk all over a city in, maybe she just does a shoe change...

Mar 16, 2009 3:08PM

They're just shoes.
Oh my god, someone is wearing Uggs. The world is over and now all things are in chaos.
Get over the whole Uggs crap.

Mar 16, 2009 4:40PM

While I'm not an Uggs fan myself, I agree with guest 7 & 8. They ARE really just shoes, albeit ugly ones. He could have just shot her calves-up, instead of taking a stupid stand on something that does'nt deserve so much attention in the first place!

Mar 16, 2009 4:55PM

Newspapers don't have fact-checkers, in general (though I think magazines do). They have copy editors. Though less and less of them lately. And though copy editors do do a certain amount of fact-checking, like I said, smaller staff, so each person is having to cram more work in before deadline, leaving less time for in-depth fact-finding (which reporters and editors should be doing, by the way).

I don't know why I felt compelled to mention that.

Mar 16, 2009 5:38PM

oh man this is hilarious because i take street style pictures in my city (for my blog: http://lecheapcestchic.com) and I won't take anyone's picture who's wearing Uggs either. It's just one of the rules I have. I have nothing against the boots, but when it comes to street style it's not a look I care to document.

Mar 16, 2009 8:32PM

What about the scuttlebutt that The Sartorialist was supposed to sign with Rizzoli and instead went with Penguin? I heard he was playing publishers against each other to get the best deal, and in the process may have messed up his chances for broader publishing opportunities...

posted by purly

Mar 16, 2009 9:54PM

I always knew he would be big.

Mar 16, 2009 10:19PM

No one is saying newspapers have fact checkers. Because, as guest @ 4:55 said, they don't. Never have, even in the flush times.

Mar 16, 2009 10:31PM

fuggs have no place in the world let alone in fashion lol

Mar 17, 2009 5:48AM

#9 - The Sartorialist is a style blog and there's nothing stylish about uggs!

So they might be comfy blah blah blah. This is fashion we're talking about. You wouldn't expect to see someone in sweatpants and a hoodie on The Sartorialist and uggs are the shoe equivalent!

Mar 17, 2009 8:15AM

kudos to the no-go uggs!

Mar 17, 2009 1:04PM

I agree Uggs aren't a fashion, they're for comfort.