What are the pillars of how you dress?
Can you sum it up in concise words? Or is it just a feeling you follow in the moment? Have you ever sat down to ask yourself why you dress the way you do? What influences your style? Why you may, say, prefer men’s trousers over women’s? Do you even care enough to ask yourself these questions?
I found solace in dressing myself as a misplaced kid with too grand imaginations and dreams to fit the parameters of such a small town. I had nothing but time to think and ask questions. Like anything in life things outgrow and change (variables) but I do believe in (constants) foundatio
ns — an ethos to dressing that cuts to the core of oneself. Formed in my adolescence and continuing to take even more shape now, here are my pillars. What are yours?
Masculin Féminin
Etched into my high school ‘fashion design’ elective class notebook is the statement, “my style is a combination of both masculine and feminine.” I don’t think I was aware of how true that statement was and still currently is. Next to it magazine clippings of a little black sheath dress and Bottega clutch. I unconsciously leaned European since fifteen. Freshman year delights in exploration of identity.
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