Finding My Personal Style

Join me on my journey to find my own personal style. Help me discover my likes and dislikes about the fashion industry. Message me about your thoughts and opinions on the beauty and fashion world! *Unless stated none of the pictures are mine if you would like them removed or credited please message me and I will be more than happy to oblige!*

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Cyclical Trends

Every 20 or so years, trends come back around. Attached is a great video of trends that will be popular in the upcoming year or years and how we can adapt them to our own personal style. 

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Zuhair Murad | Spring/Summer 2018 Couture

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Supermodel Naomi Campbell takes Vogue through her gala looks, from 1990 to 2020. Which Met Gala look do you think is Naomi’s most iconic?

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iris van herpen spring/summer 2020 couture “sensory seas”

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Finding My Aesthetic: Day 5

Two words: Emily Ratajkowski. Maybe that is not a complete sentence, but this look is a full-on book in itself. It is beautiful. I love the vibes from it. You can just take one look at her and just know she knows what she is doing. This outfit is so simple, yet so daring. Let’s start with the best part of the outfit, the shoes. I love them. I like how she went with a knee-high boot. I think it pulled the outfit together and made it look a lot more classy because her blazer is longer than her skirt she is wearing underneath. The snakeskin pattern also does a great job of complimenting the color of the blazer. It makes the teal color stand out wonderfully. That teal is so unique because lately, the trend has been bright neon colors or pastel colors. I think it is refreshing to see a teal that color because it is the perfect mixture of winter and springtime. Where the weather is cold when you leave in the morning, but it is too hot by the afternoon to wear your winter coat is the color teal in a nutshell. Her showing off some skin and opting not to wear anything underneath makes this outfit more of an “I just left from doing a photoshoot” and less of a “leaving to get on the subway from my 9-5 job”. Emily Ratajkowski KNOWS what she is doing! I love how she also stuck to the gold theme in her accessories. I love mixing and matching golds and silvers. But sometimes, a way to look always put together and looking at little details of the metal (like the gold clasp on her purse) and matching all your jewelry to that. It is subtle but yet very noticeable.

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Fast Fashion Prevention

In my last blog post (which you should check out), I dived into the topic of fast fashion. If you aren’t aware of what fast fashion is, it is basically when brands make cheaply made clothes and produce them at a quick speed. It is not sustainable. These facts found on the business insider website(https://www.businessinsider.com/fast-fashion-environmental-impact-pollution-emissions-waste-water-2019-10) give us statistics about how fast fashion and the industry affects the environment. 

Fashion production makes up 10% of humanity's carbon emissions, dries up water sources, and pollutes rivers and streams

85% of all textiles go to the dump each year

While people bought 60% more garments in 2014 than in 2000, they only kept the clothes for half as long.

the fashion industry is also the second-largest consumer of water worldwide

So What Can We Do To Prevent Fast Fashion?

I understand that some people do not have the funds to buy some high-quality pieces all the time. But that is not always the best excuse when buying fast fashion. The best option when trying to cut down on purchasing from fast fashion brands is thrifting! It's challenging to go thrifting, but sometimes you can find some great articles of clothing. It can be hit or miss, but buying second-hand is always a great option. 

The first time I went thrifting, I bought a sweater from the Loft and then took my sewing machine to it to make it into the style that I desired. Thrifting can bring out the creative streak in you! Let me know what some great thrifting finds you have gotten in the past! 

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Rossy de Palma at Jean Paul Gaultier, Spring 1994

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What is Fast Fashion?

I joined the fashion community on twitter around July last year. I went in knowing next to nothing about fashion. I just knew I loved it. When I was in middle school and high school, I was obsessed with Georges Hobeika haute couture. I would see the photos from fashion week and print them out and put them on my closet doors. I never really thought much about where I brought all my clothes and the ethics behind them. The main objective of middle school is to fit in. By dressing cute and fitting in with the trends, then it did not matter if the quality was good or not. When I started going to a small private school and wearing a uniform, I was not picking an outfit every day. It started to change my mind on trends. You started seeing how quickly trends were coming and going when you did not participate in them. After my freshman year of high school, I started a twitter account and started becoming aware of ethics and fashion. So what is fast-fashion? Well, fast-fashion can be described as cheaply made trendy clothes. A popular fast-fashion brand is Forever 21. I had never thought of how fast-fashion was not only unsustainable but unethical. The video attached below explains fast-fashion and sustainability in 5 minutes. 

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Finding My Aesthetic: Day 4

After such a bold monochromatic outfit from the last post, I realized that I like neutrals. I am a big enthusiast of patterns. I think they can bring personality into an outfit. The brown trousers fit perfectly. The tailored pants show off a maturity which is sometimes difficult to do with patterns. When I was growing up, jeggings or tight skinny jeans were popular. I vividly remember in fifth grade that I swore I would never wear boot cut jeans or any flare trousers. Well, I did not stick to that statement. The brown pants are perfect because it makes the patterns on the sweater stand out. I love the shoes because they are a different shade of brown, which gives them their little spotlight of their own. I think shoes should enhance the outfit and be something that everyone should recognize. Then the real showstopper is the sweater I can just feel it through the screen. I bet it is so soft. I love the pattern and how it can tie in the brown color scheme with just a little dab of color. This outfit is sophisticated, developed, and chic with a hint of casual. It is a perfect concoction that I adore.

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Finding My Aesthetic: Day 3

Now, this is what I call my version of mixed greens! I love this outfit! To the chunky dad shoes with the green laces (love that detail). The shoes dress down the outfit as well. I adore it all. I love this monochromatic trend that has been going on. As well as, it incorporates color, unlike the all-neutral look that people used to play it safe. Not only did she pull from two different tones of green, but she also switched it up on texture. It gives the illusion of depth and not appearing flat in the picture. When I was looking up other examples of monochromatic looks, one comment in the article, “Would You Wear...Mixed Greens?” Joanne commented: “Dressing monochrome is such a simple way to look chic in a snap.” Which is such a great way of putting it! This girl looks out together, fashionable and confident, all while rocking one color!

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Why Should I Box Myself Into One Style?

I spent a lot of time just waiting for answers to pop in front of me but always had this emptiness that I can't seem to put into words. I wanted to see a list; I wanted someone to scream, put it in CAPITAL LETTERS, and MAKE THEM BOLD. But I realized that life is not like that eggs aren't going to be just dropped into our baskets. We would never get that satisfaction that way. So I did what I thought was best, I looked it up on the internet. I found countless videos that had good advice. But one tip stuck out to me as odd: to pick a color scheme and stick to it. I am a big fan of colors and patterns. I was not a supporter of this idea. I understood what she was talking about, but where would the fun of picking out an outfit or creating a combination in your head for it to work out go? Why should I box myself into one style and one color scheme? You do not see the average person wearing a heavy winter coat in the middle of the summer? So why should I tie myself down to something as small as a color scheme? I guess to make your closet visually pleasing, but what about uncovering something that looks great on you? What about going outside your comfort zone?  Honestly, I don't believe that boxing myself into color arrangement would help me discover my style. I think it would make me closed-minded. Trends do not stay the same, and patterns come and go, but experiments and self-discovery never go out of style.

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What are the best 2020 collections in your opinion? I'm sorry if you've been asked before. I'm doing a project and i need to talk about high fashion but i don't really know that much about this topic. Could you help me out?

I’m more than happy to help you out although there haven’t been that many 2020 collections out especially now we’re in a pandemic and everything has come to a halt. However I can list a few collections that have stood out me since we entered 2020… although I think most of us can’t wait to wave this year goodbye right now.

Paolo Sebastian “The Passage of Spring” 2020 Couture Collection [x]

Christian Dior Spring 2020 Haute Couture Collection [x]

Gemmy Maloouf Spring 2020 Haute Couture Collection [x]

Ziad Nakad “Atlantis” Spring 2020 Haute Couture Collection [x]

Zuhair Murad “Féminines Sacrées” Spring 2020 Haute Couture Collection [x]

Zuhair Murad Pre-Fall 2020 Collection [x]

Zuhair Murad Fall 2020 Ready-to-Wear Collection [x]

Alexander McQueen Fall 2020 Ready-to-Wear Collection [x]

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I’ve fixed the links and they should now direct you all to the correct collections rather than just the one. By the way the new dashboard is absolutely horrendous to get right when it comes to editing text etc. It’s clearly taken from the app and placed in to the desktop version out of sheer laziness. I guess the Tumblr staff have never heard of the classic saying “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.”