It’s Fashion Week in New York but Brooklyn has never really adhered to the whims of the style tyrants over in Manhattan. Instead Brooklyn style circa 2011 is going in a million ways at once. It’s the cut off shorts and bright yellow tank tops on a Williamsburg hipster. It’s the older gentleman in Bay Ridge sporting a sharp looking hat, dress slacks and overalls, with a dirty white undershirt. It’s a Parkslope mom rocking yoga-pants even though she hasn’t gone to yoga in three days. It’s the dude in Bushwick keeping it crispy in all black everything and his Yankee fitted low.

In Brooklyn fashion is everything all of the time and that is because Brooklyn is never just one thing. Every race, culture and sub-culture has a nook in the borough. The economic lines are as blurry as the neighborhood distinctions and the folks on any given block can be moving in a thousand different directions at once.

Clothes are not life in Brooklyn as they are in some sections of Manhattan. There are certainly fashionistas in every neighborhood but they define the way they dress as apposed to letting the way they dress define them. The restless nature of Brooklyn style means that here every week is Fashion Week and everything is always in season.