Re: Your Style Philosophy
In terms of formal elements, I think my style would be defined as one that focuses on asymmetrical layering with focus on a contrast of texture and drape as opposed to color. I tend not to think too much about what I wear ? I'm just attracted to pieces that tend to focus on those aspects and end up wearing them together. Luckily, gray matches with gray, and black matches with black.
While I always feel like I'm forced to mix designer pieces with thrifted or DIY pieces, I realize that in an ideal world, I would actually want to make all the clothing I wear myself. I want to love love love everything I wear. Everything I wear is worn for the specific reason that it changes the way I feel about the world. When I pull on my Ann D pants, those two straps across my shins make me feel like I could take anyone who crosses my path. That philosophy may seem a bit too much in tandem with all those failed utopian theories of the day, but I can't help but feel like clothing is an extension of your home ? that clothing provides physical, mental, and emotional protection.
As for designers, I tend to be influenced very much about how I imagine they feel about the clothing they make. Despite the fact that I actually found Dolce and Gabbana's last collection to be quite beautiful and very solid in all the formal elements related to clothing, I would never be able to worship at that temple simply because the clothes don't feel pure to me. It doesn't feel as though they truly love and care for the things they make. As mentioned in my last paragraph, I enjoy making the clothing I wear because it creates an inexorably human feeling to me. I suppose I want all clothes to have that same feeling.
In the end, I think I just want to feel like a runaway princess.
In terms of formal elements, I think my style would be defined as one that focuses on asymmetrical layering with focus on a contrast of texture and drape as opposed to color. I tend not to think too much about what I wear ? I'm just attracted to pieces that tend to focus on those aspects and end up wearing them together. Luckily, gray matches with gray, and black matches with black.
While I always feel like I'm forced to mix designer pieces with thrifted or DIY pieces, I realize that in an ideal world, I would actually want to make all the clothing I wear myself. I want to love love love everything I wear. Everything I wear is worn for the specific reason that it changes the way I feel about the world. When I pull on my Ann D pants, those two straps across my shins make me feel like I could take anyone who crosses my path. That philosophy may seem a bit too much in tandem with all those failed utopian theories of the day, but I can't help but feel like clothing is an extension of your home ? that clothing provides physical, mental, and emotional protection.
As for designers, I tend to be influenced very much about how I imagine they feel about the clothing they make. Despite the fact that I actually found Dolce and Gabbana's last collection to be quite beautiful and very solid in all the formal elements related to clothing, I would never be able to worship at that temple simply because the clothes don't feel pure to me. It doesn't feel as though they truly love and care for the things they make. As mentioned in my last paragraph, I enjoy making the clothing I wear because it creates an inexorably human feeling to me. I suppose I want all clothes to have that same feeling.
In the end, I think I just want to feel like a runaway princess.
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