FASHION INSPIRATION

“Always keep your eyes open. Keep watching. Because whatever you can see can inspire you.” Grace Coddington

Fashion exists everywhere, and we don’t always have to look far to find inspiration. Of course, there are the obvious places to look for inspiration: street style, fashion blogs, magazines, films, other cultures, and television. However, if you look a little harder, you can find fashion inspiration in other places: books, nature, music, art, and history. I look for inspiration in a variety of places; when you expand your horizons you can find inspiration in almost anything.

I think street style is a great place to find fashion inspiration. Most of the time, street style incorporates elements of high fashion into daily wear, and I have a bunch of different folders and documents that consist of street style that I like. There are so many street style blogs out there, some of my favorites are: stylebythemodels, noiretblancmaisrouge, vogue-always, viederue, walkonvogue, streetstyl-ish, and what-id-wear.

Alexa Chung, Kate Moss, Abbey Lee Kershaw, Larissa Hofmann, Fei Fei Sun, Liu Wen, Cara Delevingne, Brigitte Bardot, Stevie Nicks, Florence Welch, Ali MacGraw, and Miranda Kerr all have such fab style, in my opinion.

Alexa Chung

Florence Welch

In addition to looking to people for inspiration, different cities have an incredible sense of style. My personal favorites are Berlin and London. The fashion found in Paris, Milan, New York, Sweden, Tokyo, Copenhagen, and Seoul is also wonderful.

London street style

Milan street style

Photoshoots from magazines are another source of inspiration. Vogue, Porter, Nylon, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, W...the list goes on. Now, I’m not saying you have to match your outfit exactly to the ones found in the magazine, but you can incorporate certain elements into your own looks.

Porter photoshoot

Teen Vogue photoshoot

Films and television shows are two obvious places to look for style inspiration. Most of the time it is very easy to replicate an outfit that you have seen on television, since the pieces can be easy to find. I have found inspiration from movies such as, The Big Lebowski (I know, I know, but it’s my favorite movie and I absolutely love the Dude’s outfits.), Love Story, Pretty in Pink, Roman Holiday, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and Annie Hall.

Pretty in Pink

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Fashion inspiration can be found in a variety of places, all you have to do is look.

CRISP

Shirt- Similar , Jeans- Forever21, Boots- Boohoo

Stila - Beso

This was a spur-of-the-moment outfit. I actually really like how it turned out, though. It's a very classic, easy outfit to put together. My mom has a subscription to Birchbox and she was sent this awhile ago. She doesn't wear lipsticks, so she gave this one to me. I'll admit, I don't normally wear lip products. I got off of Accutane a little over 3(?) months ago and my lips still get very dry, very easily. This is an amazing lip product though! It smells heavenly and stays on for quite awhile; if you're looking for a good red lipstick I recommend this one! 

The weather has been having a moment so far this week. It's November 3rd and it was 70 degrees out today! I'm not a fan- I would rather it be a little more on the chilly side. On another note, I watched Star Wars for the first time over the weekend (I don't know why it's taken me this long-honestly) and I LOVED it!! I'm going to have to watch the others before the new one comes out in December. I also watched five movies over the weekend with my mom and I would recommend most of them. Insidious: Chapter 3 (not very good in my opinion), The Final Girls (loved it! Mostly because I'm a huge fan of most of the actors in it haha), The Gift (huuuge Jason Bateman fan over here! This one was pretty good), Ashby (I love, love, love Emma Roberts, and the movie), and Manson Family Vacation (this one won't be everyone's cup of tea- but I found it funny and really enjoyed it). 

x Brett 

ALL HALLOWS' EVE

It's that time of year again...HALLOWEEN! I absolutely love Halloween, as most people do. I'm staying in this year and passing out candy for the first time. I've been alive for 18 years and I've never passed out candy before because I either lived out in the country (where no sensible kid comes to trick-or-treat) or I've been doing things with friends. Tonight I'm spending time with my mom and brother, giving out candy, and watching a collection of horror films--I'm pretty ecstatic about it, as nerdy as it may sound. I wanted to share my favorite Halloween/ horror films with you guys. So sit back, turn out the lights, and be prepared to get scared. Stay spooky! :)

Oh, I did change my url/ title!

HALLOWEEN (1978)

HOCUS POCUS (1993)

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984)

THE HOUSES OCTOBER BUILT (2014)

THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT (2009)

THE OMEN (1976)

THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974)

THE SHINING (1980)

THE BABADOOK (2014)

SCREAM (1996)

FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980)

ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968)

AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (2014)

THE ORPHANAGE (2007)

THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999)  

(on a side note, I feel like I'm the only person who likes this film haha.)