The Best Street Style Photos of 2018, According to Vogue Photographers Around the World

The Best Street Style Photos of 2018, According to Vogue Photographers Around the World

What makes a great street style photo in 2018? Imperfection, according to Vogue’s globe-trotting photographer, Phil Oh. “My favorites are the photos that capture a bit of real life in the background,” he says. “Tourists, businessmen, bike messengers, moms and their kids. It pierces the veil between fashion and reality, just for a little bit.”

That sense of immediacy and access is what makes street style a serious business—one that legitimately changed the way we dress and, in many cases, they way designers design. This year, the medium was as prevalent as ever and became increasingly global. Vogue shot street style in New York, London, Milan, and Paris, but also in Seoul; Lagos, Nigeria; Tokyo; Tbilisi, Georgia; and Helsinki, Finland. And that’s just a fraction of the places we visited. To narrow down the year’s best looks from literally all over the world would require days of editing, and it might not even be the most representative list. We’d rather hear from someone who was on the ground and documented it firsthand—so we asked five of our street style photographers around the world to send us the photos they think best capture the year in street style. Oh’s picks included a major runway–to–red carpet moment; Gianluca Senese’s edit speaks to the year’s changing menswear landscape; Alex Finch highlighted fashion’s ability to translate a political message; and Style du Monde’s Acielle called out the new models who grabbed her attention. You’ll no doubt see them everywhere next year.

Flip through all of their favorite photos, above, then revisit Vogue’s comprehensive street style coverage here. We’ll get our first batch of 2019 photos in about three weeks, once the London menswear shows kick off in January.