Can Personal Style Lead Us to a More Sustainable Fashion Future?
It wasn’t until I had spent a great portion of time in Silicon Valley that I realized how much my sense of identity and mood are intrinsically tied to my style choices. In the land of jeans, hoodies, Patagonia fleece vests, outfit kits (VC starter kit, anyone?), and few outliers that simply confirm the rule, I felt out of place, observed, and aware of my black-wearing, tabis-dragging self like never before.
Style clearly isn’t a priority for a place that influences people’s daily habits all over the world. At first glance the idea of casualness over the need for expression seemed comforting, almost freeing. Pull on a pair of jeans and sneakers, and off you go. Anywhere. But for someone who sees dressing as a creative outlet, it soon became pretty limiting, almost suffocating. Like there would suddenly appear an invisible barrier that limited my ability to express myself.
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–Love, Ana. is a small product design studio based in Zagreb, Croatia, dedicated to the craft of alluring domestic objects. Brand spontaneously evolved from the first exhibition at Clerkenwell Design Week in 2011 and developed into design studio recognized internationally as much as in their native country, with several products listed as Best Buy and Best New [...]
“My idea of perfect day is to come home from the food market with few friends, drink a glass of wine and slowly start cooking the meal together,” says Suzan Gabrijan, the photographer and food stylist from Ljubljana, Slovenia. “I love cooking and creating interesting plates of food and beautiful tablescapes.” She demonstrated both when we [...]
Here’s why investing in independent fashion is the smartest style decision you can make. Personal style, for me, has never been about having a closet full of fashionable pieces. It is about curation - knowing oneself and translating that understanding into your own visual language. Yet, the more I have observed the modern fashion landscape, [...]
Although often misunderstood and reduced to the aesthetic alone, fashion can be also important communication tool addressing complex cultural issues and social changes. One of them is gender fluidity that has recently started to pervade our collective consciousness. Dragan Hristov has been using it as a main source of inspiration for years and gradually transformed [...]
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Can Personal Style Lead Us to a More Sustainable Fashion Future?
It wasn’t until I had spent a great portion of time in Silicon Valley that I realized how much my sense of identity and mood are intrinsically tied to my style choices. In the land of jeans, hoodies, Patagonia fleece vests, outfit kits (VC starter kit, anyone?), and few outliers that simply confirm the rule, I felt out of place, observed, and aware of my black-wearing, tabis-dragging self like never before.
Style clearly isn’t a priority for a place that influences people’s daily habits all over the world. At first glance the idea of casualness over the need for expression seemed comforting, almost freeing. Pull on a pair of jeans and sneakers, and off you go. Anywhere. But for someone who sees dressing as a creative outlet, it soon became pretty limiting, almost suffocating. Like there would suddenly appear an invisible barrier that limited my ability to express myself.
Read the rest of the article for free at utopiast substack.
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