A street style image is just what it sounds like: a photograph taken of a person outside, often in an urban setting, showing off their outfit. It's been an important form of visual storytelling—whether it's a photo for the most glamorous fashion magazine or documentation of a person walking down the street. Street style photography arose as a genre in the 1920s and '30s, thanks to lighter handheld cameras, and it became popular in the '50s and '60s. We can track its evolution most clearly with celebrities; they're more likely to be captured, both for a photoshoot or by the paparazzi, in a "natural" setting. Over the past several decades, street style has grown in ever-more impressive ways. Below, the evolution of celebrity street style in photos.
