Tomorrow, Adamson Gallery will open a show spotlighting the photography of longtime fashion insider/blogger Scott Schuman, a.k.a. The Sartorialist.

Fashionable people -- and their close cousins, voyeurs -- pant at the mere mention of Schuman's Sartorialist blog, which since 2005 has been capturing the beautiful "real" people dressed to the nines in the world's most beautiful cities: first New York, then Paris, Milan, Stockholm. This week, Schuman is in lovely New Delhi.

Schuman takes the snapshots (and they are snapshots, since he stalks his prey a bit, and then photographs them pretty much where he found them) and posts several a day on the blog, http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com, making note of the place.

And there really is something about seeing a preternaturally fashionable shopgirl meekly smoking in the street, or a dandy on his way to work. With names such as "On the Street . . . The Charmer, part 2" and "On the Street . . . Greys Like a Fog, Pitti Uomo," the images prove that fashion translates to the streets (though, admittedly, there are many editors and fashion-business types, since Schuman often will photograph the streets around fashion shows).

The blog can reach 70,000 hits a day, and certainly there is no shortage of features inspired by it (see The Post's own "The Look" column in Sunday Source).

The exhibition, which will feature about 45 of Schuman's color photographs directly from the blog, arrives in Washington after a stint at New York's Danzinger Projects gallery. Adamson often trades shows with Danzinger, so that's how the exhibition came to land here, in the city not exactly known for fashionable people.

If you're just dying to meet Schuman, he will visit the gallery for a separate opening next week.

--Lavanya Ramanathan (Friday, March 14, 2008)