Where Do You Get Your Inspiration?
I get my inspiration from a lot of different places but I like to stay loyal to a few of my favorites: Teen Vogue and celebrity tabloid magazines. They have never failed me. The two of them serve very different purposes. The former is for those high fashion but wearable days and the latter is for those hip but casual days.
Warning: this may start to sound like a complete plug for Teen Vogue but that just shows you how much I love that magazine. It is seriously the best magazine because it usually skips the riff raff (you know, like that ever present teen mag curse, the quiz titled "Is He Really Into You?"). Plus the magazine has a great balance between couture and affordable clothes ( however, leaning on the side of expensive), but I think that's good. I like to be left with a little bit of room for dreaming. Plus it's not like they expect girls to run out and copy those exact outfits featured in the fashion spreads. THAT is why I like to call it my inspiration. It gives me ideas. Fashion is about self expression and that is exactly what i do. Claudiaism #4: Don't let fashion become a chore. It should be complete fun.
Now Us Weekly is by far my favorite guilty pleasure. It has a lot more fashion than most of you think. Well think about it, we have to constantly keep tabs on the who's who of Hollywood and what can be more important than what they're wearing (other than their fascinating love lives)? Why are tabloids such fashion powerhouses you ask? Well the celebs wear the best. I would trade places with Nicole Richie or Lindsay Lohan any day. Those lucky girls get YSL Muse bags for free AND I think they have like hundreds and hundreds of Chloe (my fave designer) and Jimmy Choo shoes. AND they get them for FREE. Ooops I just said that twice.
But I don't just get inspired by periodicals. I get inspiration from the girls at Disneyland, my favorite fashion icons Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Kennedy, and movies. Like just recently I watched The Breakup and I fell in love with all those simple dresses that Jennifer Aniston's character wears to her job at the art gallery. This season is all about t shirt dresses, sundresses, wraparound dresses, just DRESSES!!!
Happy dress shopping girls and be on the lookout for inspiration! It can be right around the corner.
Love you much,
Claudia
Warning: this may start to sound like a complete plug for Teen Vogue but that just shows you how much I love that magazine. It is seriously the best magazine because it usually skips the riff raff (you know, like that ever present teen mag curse, the quiz titled "Is He Really Into You?"). Plus the magazine has a great balance between couture and affordable clothes ( however, leaning on the side of expensive), but I think that's good. I like to be left with a little bit of room for dreaming. Plus it's not like they expect girls to run out and copy those exact outfits featured in the fashion spreads. THAT is why I like to call it my inspiration. It gives me ideas. Fashion is about self expression and that is exactly what i do. Claudiaism #4: Don't let fashion become a chore. It should be complete fun.
Now Us Weekly is by far my favorite guilty pleasure. It has a lot more fashion than most of you think. Well think about it, we have to constantly keep tabs on the who's who of Hollywood and what can be more important than what they're wearing (other than their fascinating love lives)? Why are tabloids such fashion powerhouses you ask? Well the celebs wear the best. I would trade places with Nicole Richie or Lindsay Lohan any day. Those lucky girls get YSL Muse bags for free AND I think they have like hundreds and hundreds of Chloe (my fave designer) and Jimmy Choo shoes. AND they get them for FREE. Ooops I just said that twice.
But I don't just get inspired by periodicals. I get inspiration from the girls at Disneyland, my favorite fashion icons Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Kennedy, and movies. Like just recently I watched The Breakup and I fell in love with all those simple dresses that Jennifer Aniston's character wears to her job at the art gallery. This season is all about t shirt dresses, sundresses, wraparound dresses, just DRESSES!!!
Happy dress shopping girls and be on the lookout for inspiration! It can be right around the corner.
Love you much,
Claudia
posted by Claudia at
5:01 PM
6 Comments:
i only saw half the break up with you so i have no idea about the dresses aniston wore... and you seriously have WAY too many teen vogue magazines under your bed.
haha but you're a fashion junkie so w/e
you always sound like your punch drunk when you're writing your articles, but I think that's only because you sound like you're very happy. Keep on going, my dear, and i'll keep on reading.
you should write for vogue
really, you should write for vogue
wow
funny how easily you would be able to write a great response to a college app. question that goes, "what inspires you?"
you SHOULD write for vogue. get an internship if you have little planned for summer, it's not that hard.
http://fashioninternships.net/vogue_internships.php
haha two props to tim
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