Erin O'Connor's star is on the rise once more. The 34-year-old British model had been snaking in and out of fashion for 15 years before making strong showings in Zac Posen's Resort 2013 lookbook this June and again in Jean Paul Gaultier's Fall 2012 Couture show this July, and now she's here to stay.

"I'm recarving my career yet again, because aside from missing the people I've built relationships with in fashion, I miss posing the most," O'Connor said in an interview with Style.com. "I love the physicality of my job and how my mind and body are most happy when I'm expressing and moving. My face was always secondary to body alignment and the dynamism of making a moment come alive."

Does that mean she'll be creating memorable moments during Fashion Weeks in New York and abroad next month? If so, then she's already well primed for the runway. Gaultier reportedly assigned each of the models in his Couture show a famous woman of the past — like Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn — to impersonate on the runway. But he told O'Connor, "You're just going to play yourself. You are already an absolute diva."

Photo courtesy of Zac Posen

Who better to comment on the future of street style photography than the man who helped propel the genre into the digital age? In an interview with Harper's Bazaar about his upcoming book, Closer, Scott Schuman of The Sartorialist explained that photographers have become too preoccupied with a certain kind of subject.

"I think the thing that's tricky and why it hasn't taken the next big step forward is because photographers now are going to the shows and they're trying to shoot these 'star editors,'" Schuman explained. "You know, when I started, people knew who the editors in chief were and a few others, but nobody knew Giovanna Battaglia or Anna Dello Russo or those people. I was really shooting what I was responding to. And Giovanna ended up becoming somebody. And Anna Dello Russo ended up becoming somebody. I think that the part that's holding people back now is that they basically only go to the shows. There's very few of these street blogs that go back to their city, wherever that is, and shoot. People just get very obsessed with getting a picture of those known names, as opposed to really speaking from the heart and shooting from the heart — having the bravery to shoot a 'third row' person or not going to the shows and shooting somewhere else. For street style to be successful, photographers need to shoot in a more unique way to them."

Photo courtesy of The Sartorialist

Busy busy. After recently debuting shoes for his eponymous label, Narciso Rodriguez is adding yet another title to his ever growing resume: fashion advisor for Banana Republic.

The brand announced today that Rodriguez will begin the newly created gig Aug. 20 and will work closely with Simon Knee, the brand's creative director and vice president, on the Fall 2013 collection. "Narciso's expertise will be a great complement to Simon's strengths and to our incredible design team," Banana Republic's president, Jack Calhoun, said in a statement.

Anna Wintour says she wasn't surprised when the printers called and asked whether her very first cover of Vogue in Nov. 1988 was a mistake. That cover, which featured model Michaela Bercu photographed by Peter Lindbergh in a beaded Christian Lacroix couture jacket and a pair of Guess Jeans, was — in Wintour's words — "so unlike the studied and elegant close-ups that were typical of Vogue's covers back then, with tons of makeup and major jewelry."

"I couldn't blame them," Wintour wrote. "This one broke all the rules. Michaela wasn't looking at you, and worse, she had her eyes almost closed. Her hair was blowing across her face. It looked easy, casual, a moment that had been snapped on the street, which it had been, and which was the whole point. Afterwards, in the way that these things can happen, people applied all sorts of interpretations: It was about mixing high and low, Michaela was pregnant, it was a religious statement. But none of these things was true. I had just looked at that picture and sensed the winds of change. And you can't ask for more from a cover image than that."

Photo: Michaela Bercu photographed by Peter Lindbergh for the Nov. 1988 cover of Vogue.