These shots I honestly took quite awhile ago, back in Charlottesville. Beatrix Ost has a farm there and is a transcendental ray of fashion light in an otherwise prepped-out college town. I had heard of her as a prominent local artist, but didn't understand what an entity she is until seeing her at a play one night...and I sort of fell in love! She's inescapable and completely captivating, as I'm sure you can imagine. To get these pictures I waited for fifteen minutes outside of a toy store in which she was shopping with her grandkids. Not creepy. She's wearing a custom leather dress she had a friend create, but that hair! Those lips! Her lips are always this deep shade of crimson, perfectly applied. I'm beginning to think she had the color tattooed on...
Ost is a total inspiration to "let your true colors shine," not to mention something of a street style star. I highly suggest you visit her closet tour on StyleLikeU and any one of the umpteen posts about her on Ari Seth Cohen's Advanced Style: here she is in Central Park, this post provides a bit of history, and here is a video interview she did with Cohen.
