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February 2020

Stop and Take a Breather

February 24, 2020

Rodebjer set
Vintage belt
Dear Frances boots

When I’m overwhelmed because I feel pulled in too many directions, I stop and take a breather. I move and jump around and blend with the sky and let that feeling be the only thing inside my head. And if I do it enough times, I find that I land back down seeing clearer where I want to go. This puzzle that’s life takes time putting itself together. Give it all the time in the world.

The majority of my influencer career (and I know many of you guys can relate) has been about creating that perfect shot. There have been many a day of over-analyzation, self-critique, and frustrations that came with picking apart every aspect of a photo, and of myself, which at its root went against the point of everything I do and truly wanted to share. The struggles behind what seems like the perfect, most effortless photos are the parts that never seem to be shared. And to us in front of the camera, it never seemed like enough photos could be taken to get that perfect shot, and we drive ourselves crazy over this. My mindset about this has changed drastically over the last two years, and I really had to put in a lot of work and self affirmations to get to this point of becoming more confident in myself and my work, less self critical, and less expectant of nailing projects on the head perfectly each and every time. Shifting my expectations was #1, and I became happier with what I was creating. The spur-of-the-moment, less staged me is much more creative than the overly analytical, perfectionist me. And so I allowed myself to let go and embrace this creative part of me much more. And I am still working to get better at this everyday. Like the spontaneity of an instant photograph to the unexpectedness of getting back prints from my disposable camera, taking this mindset to the content creation process has helped me feel much more sane and creatively free. After 10 years of running my blog and 8 years of posting on Instagram, this is by far the most important sort of personal growth I have been able to experience and I’m thankful for it. I just wanted to let you guys know, in case you guys are experiencing the same sort of frustrations and creative ruts. They are parts of life, so don’t let them them pick yourself a part. Let’s be there for each other during them instead. Keep creating loves 🙂

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Inspired by Cinema

February 22, 2020

Dress by Self Portrait
Pedro Garcia shoes
Swedish Stockings tights

The most amazing thing about fashion is how inspiration can be pulled from everything around us. The music we listen to. The art we fill our eyes. The juxtaposition of words in the books that we get lost in. The movies we watch and the characters in them that rub off on us that we can’t help but take them home with us in little ways. Lately, cinema has been my #1 way of being inspired with fashion. And I think that it in a way touches upon every sort of sense we can have as humans. There’s the soundtrack, light and color editing that lends to the mood. There’s the composition of objects within the frame, and the way the camera moves from one character to another, jump cuts, or just stays still. The character dressing as a reflection of time period and personality, and of course the dialogue and mannerisms that help us dig deeper into the layers of the story as the film goes on. I find myself paying attention to all these little details and finding stories within stories within these films, that when I come home I find myself reflecting so much, and in turn feel inspired to recreate in my own way the aspects that I loved the most or found the most interesting about the film into my wardrobe. 

What I love most about cinema, is that the possibilities are endless. To me, there doesn’t need to be a strategy to filmmaking. There doesn’t need to be a box for ideas to be contained in. I feel this way about any sort of art form, but to me cinema is special because it represents so much of the limitlessness of the human mind:  how and why the story was brought to life and how we interpret what we see before us. I love that I can be watching a film where I don’t even understand hardly at all what is happening, but that I still get a feeling from it that leaves a mark on me and that I can take away to ponder about on my own. This intimacy, between the viewer and the film itself, is very special. The most important thing about a film, is what it means to the individual watching it. And it can have a million different interpretations, many of which cannot even be explained in words, but mostly in feeling. Bringing this feeling to my approach to fashion has always felt therapeutic to me, and makes getting dressed feel more interesting and exciting and purposeful. Even just a color, a pattern, a combination that is a nod towards the mood that I have felt from a film I just watched makes life feel special. And this doesn’t just affect my approach to fashion, it affects how I photograph what I am wearing, how I creative direct my work, and how I choose to experiment by going in a direction different from before, and how I understand the world. Cinema to me adds an extra challenge and depth to my perspective on fashion, and overall it has helped me grow as an individual. I am still growing because of it, and I always will. Cinema has helped me develop into a person who is more open to the world around her. To see from other’s perspectives and put my feet into shoes I have never worn before. To be unafraid to take risks not just in fashion, but in my everyday life, because the way my story will be told in the future, no matter how it is interpreted, it will matter. Our stories are art, and cinema has taught me this. And in fact, the stories we tell through fashion is art, too. 

I think I’ll make a list of some of the films I have watched recently that have really inspired my personal style. Would you guys be interested in that? 

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A Piece That Makes My Heart Sing

February 20, 2020

The Attico dress from The Webster

It’s not even two months past the holidays, and I’m already nostalgic about last year’s holiday party dressing. I forgot to post these images on the blog, so here they are now. Don’t want them to go to waste since I adore this glittery little number by The Attico. Speaking of no waste, I want to mentionThe Attico girls who inspire me so much with their disco glam sensibility but more importantly their focus on sustainability when it comes to building a wardrobe that will last forever. They inject color and fun in a way that makes me look forward to getting dressed everyday. Every piece feels special and like a collector’s piece. I’m looking at my own wardrobe right now, and picking out anything that doesn’t feel like it’s being utilized and taking it out of my closet so it can go into someone else’s closet where it can be loved and worn more. I’m buying less of anything new, but if I am going to make a purchase that isn’t vintage or second hand, I have to be 100% sure that the piece really makes my heart sing and will stay put forever. 

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