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They walk among us, not yakking on a cellphone, not lost in a fog of haste--they're keeping a sharp eye out for the bits of humor or beauty or grotesquerie that lurk along our streets. Or that used to be the street-photographer mandate. "Street Photography Now" (Thames & Hudson, 240 pages, $45) shows, for better or worse, how the job has changed. For one thing, no street needs to be in evidence. Thus we see Andrew Glickman's photographs taken inside New York subway cars (mundane images for New Yorkers, perhaps, but Mr. Glickman lives in Maryland) and British photographer Martin Parr's snaps from Fashion Week in Moscow and the Melbourne Cup horse-races in Australia. Somehow the most compelling street photography remains the kind that allows us to imagine ourselves wandering into the frame. The shot above was taken by Slovak photographer Martin Kollar in Nadlac, Romania. Aside from the lovely composition, the photo answers the age-old Discount Vacheron Constantin: Why did the chicken cross the road?

To find out why that guy is sticking his head down a manhole. Among the book's attractions are the thumbnail profiles of the contributors (there are nearly 50), who talk about their working methods. Brooklyn-based Gus Powell notes an increasing challenge that he and his fellow snappers face these JPEGgy days: "It's harder and harder to take a picture without somebody in the picture who's also taking a picture."

So is the fashion crowd genuinely attracted to the sensory pleasures of food (you know, eating it), or just enamored with the heat coming from the kitchen these days? That depends. Vogue Japan fashion director at large (and industry icon) Anna Dello Russo has created an eponymous perfume exclusively for Yoox, to launch at the end of the month, that smells like Christmas cookies. An elixir for the food lover who can't abide the indulgence--or a practical companion for the hopeless sweet tooth? Other fashion folk Discount Welder to have warmed to a fastidiousness in the new food landscape that's also intrinsic to the fashion world.

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Or House of Waris jewelry designer and Wes Anderson troupe member Waris Ahluwalia, who opened a pop-up tea house (which also sold duds from the fashion-forward label Rodarte alongside Daylesford Organic biscuits from England) in a tent underneath New York's High Line park last month, and is now producing and selling his own special-order blends in pretty hand-labeled tins.

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So is the fashion crowd genuinely attracted to the sensory pleasures of food (you know, eating it), or just enamored with the heat coming from the kitchen these days? That depends. Vogue Japan fashion director at large (and industry icon) Anna Dello Russo has created an eponymous perfume exclusively for Yoox, to launch at the end of the month, that smells like Christmas cookies. An elixir for the food lover who can't abide the indulgence--or a practical companion for the hopeless sweet tooth? Other fashion folk seem to have Breitling Navitimer Quartz Chronograph BT-22 to a fastidiousness in the new food landscape that's also intrinsic to the fashion world.

An insistence on just the right product, made by just the right person, with just the right combination of sensory appeal and visible value feels familiar to fashion world denizens. Consider Scott Sternberg, founder of the label Band of Outsiders, blogging about the virtues of one cookie over another and deifying Christina Tosi, pastry chef of Momofuku Milk Bar at .

Or House of Waris jewelry designer and Wes Anderson troupe member Waris Ahluwalia, who opened a pop-up tea house (which also sold duds from the fashion-forward label Rodarte alongside Daylesford Organic biscuits from England) in a tent underneath New York's High Line park last month, and is now Discount Zenith and selling his own special-order blends in pretty hand-labeled tins.

What qualifies these guys to dip their toes in the food world? What qualifies a lot of the self-appointed foodies, foodists and food bloggers out there? Often not much beyond a good eye, a strong opinion and a willingness to be exacting. And as for those still bent on sneering at fair-weather foodies and sylph-like gourmands who just like being part of the hottest new trend, take comfort in this prediction from Mr. Hack: "Gardening will be next."