The Sartorialist's position as one of Time Magazine's 100 Design Influencers definitely can't be disputed and the reactions that his pictures provoke ranging from the intelligently critical to downright offensive show that he is capturing more than just 'an outfit' in his photos and that he brings something more to the table.  His influence has now led to a wonderful blog like Wear Palettes, by a Swiss graphic design student Daniel.  He has created a blog dedicated to constructing palettes based on the photographs from The Sartorialist and has also uploaded his palettes onto the colour-obsessed site COLOURlovers.  Thus far, Daniel has created over 1,500 palettes and going through the archives, you get a different perspective on the outfit you might have first viewed on the Sart. 

A simple thing like deriving a colour palette from the outfit adds a complexity because some of the palettes are not simple at all and in fact the colours look like a clash collision, yet transplanted into the outfit, it all makes sense and so you end up wanting to give that person mad props for the deceptively easy task of getting dressed and you also want to commend Scott Schuman for picking out that person's super sartorial skills and photographing them. 

Oh, then jealousy ensues and it gets a slightly ugly but then inspiration comes and you start having fun with your own very inferior photographs and picking out the colours of the outfit (a simple Paint programme will do the job...).  Had to do a rather complex palette seeing as there were a gazillion badges and a torid floral skirt involved...