The inspiration for this topic still comes from the recently brushed blogger Ins, there are a few very like bloggers who have been chasing for several years, but recently there is suddenly a feeling - looking a little tired.
It is true that every shape is particularly beautiful, and every photo is also very beautiful, but unconsciously it has been cultivated into a cognition - a good-looking shape is the need to constantly change items, and - without some equipment to take photos, are a little embarrassed to send.
I remember when we were trading blogger Reese Blutstein earlier, she said, "Try to repeat the piece on social media, because you don't want to give others the impression of 'fashion = substance'".
Here I have to say a word for bloggers, as a special profession of fashion bloggers, follow the trend of fashion, personally demonstrate the effect of clothes, bags, shoes in "ordinary people" (compared to stars and supermodels), constantly changing the image, is part of their work, can be well switched between different styles, which is also a professional performance.
However, content and readers have always been a two-way choice. Are we the only fashion bloggers who can watch?
No.
If you want to get some "steady" fashion information, you can also check out another group of people in this circle – the fashion editors.
From her/them you may not see a particularly large span of variation, with less stimulation, but there will be a power that will reassure you.
Kate Lanphear, who was super favorite at the time, has a very stable style
You will find that they are also "familiar customers" in street photography, and they also have young "that year", but they will never be undecided in style, who is who, after ten years, or her.
What is stability? It can be reflected in lifestyle, eating habits, dressing up, and even your profile picture on social platforms.
Legendary editor-in-chief Diana Vreeland is in her office
The fashion circle is perhaps the circle that has the least way to talk about "stability", because the trend is ever-changing every season, and always looking at new things is the inertia of this circle, but the editors are quite "divided", and their "split" is that on the one hand, they must continue to pay attention to the changing things, on the other hand, they need very stable things to convey them to the readers, such as stable words, stable knowledge reserves, stable media tones, etc. These editors are always putting up a balance of "change" and "unchanged".
So, if you look closely, you'll see that the fashion editors in the street photography year after year always have "unchanging" things, such as:
Anna's hairstyle,
Eva Chen's hair color (she also insisted on shooting this "still life in the car" for many years),
Sarah Harris's hairstyle (and hair color),
For example, for more than ten years, their dressing style can be immediately identified from the crowd:
Emmanuelle Alt's "YSL neutrality",
Christine Centenera's "50% sharp + 50% neutral",
Taylor Tomasi's motifs and colors,
Julie Pelipas's oversized silhouette....
They don't make you feel "unrecognizable," and they don't copy and paste each other.
Even if you have the fashion of the season, you can feel that these trends are well kneaded into their own style and digested by themselves. In other words, they all have their own "fashion immune system", you ask what is the style? My answer is – my own fashion immune system.
Today's article, from these stylish fashion editors to give you a detailed talk - Jo Ellison.
With a Master's degree in History at the University of Edinburgh, she entered the fashion industry in 2005 and was previously the Feature Director of VOGUE in the UK. The fashion articles she writes, in addition to the delicate writing, because the deep foundation brought by the study of history makes her stories wonderful and moving;
Jo later jumped into the financial world, working at the Financial Times, but remained a fashion editor and associate editor of how to spend IT, the Financial Times' weekly lifestyle supplement.
Founded in 1888, the newspaper gave two "fashion editors" titles, and as a digression, the first person to get this title was Vanessa Friedman
Also a beautiful woman with a "journalistic temperament".
Speaking back~~
Some people say that Jo Ellison is "the most able woman in the world to wear commuter clothes", and some people say that she is very good at simple and high-end collocation, in fact, you look down at our excerpt of Jo's interview, you know that she does not have so many ideas, she just wears clothes that she feels comfortable.
If you need a similar template to help you summarize some dressing ideas, then the next content about Jo can be well looked at:
For example, the most common item in Jo's street photography is the book, not for the sake of posing, and the editors who have run fashion weeks for many years can tell everyone that before the "era of mobile phones for all", editors were holding books in their hands. First, in order to record the details that impressed and recommended to readers when watching the show, they would chase the celebrities outside the Fashion Week and ask them what brand of clothes they were wearing (the Japanese editors outside the show were often the busiest).
And because there is a real need, so her use of the book is real, if you often use the same item, you will naturally pay attention to whether it is easy to use, whether it is easy to use in all directions, whether there is a better style to choose... Slowly, the temperament of products belonging to this category is formed.
Therefore, many of her items, whether they are the clothes displayed to everyone or her supplies at home, have very precious "traces of being used".
Rather than brand-new, belonging-free objects.
You can see a part of her in the pieces she uses, in the popular saying, "This thing is hers at first sight."
Jo has a lot of pieces like this, such as coats, knitwear, vintage sunglasses... You should also be like her, looking for your own "signature pieces".
None of us should give up the search for style, but always remember that the bottom line is "like yourself." Don't wear clothes that are "not yours," especially not because "I saw xxx wearing them." There is no end to imitating others, but "find yourself" you will always find.
As Jo said in an interview, "I'm not sure what style I have, but I've been wearing men's clothes since I can remember." I never wear skirts, but sometimes I wear dresses. Her dress is influenced by the British style, and she has her own set of "I wear xxx, I don't wear xxx", which is actually more like a kind of training, and you will gradually become skilled within the scope of yours. And this inexplicable "pure fire" is the part that really infects others.
Although the overall Jo collocation is very practical, she also has the characteristics of the ancient and avant-garde mix &match characteristic of British fashion, which is reflected in her choice of shoes.
Her clothes are often traceable, but she likes to break through on shoes, so her shoes often become a "diacritic", giving people some "familiar feeling of surprise".
The quote also came from an interview with her:
Someone asked her, "How did you carry off Fashion Week?" ”
Her answer was, "God knows!! I'm not sure if I've ever survived. But I do know that after about two days of hard work, I'm exhausted and look like a mess. If I have any advice, it's to keep your clothes in a blurry hue so you can combine a lot of styling with relatively few things (I tend to be black, brown, and gray). ”
Let's watch those urban dramas, urban movies, elites love to wear black is not unreasonable, busy as he/they, to use the least "equipment" to cope with the most occasions, "widely applicable" is very important, so Jo mouth "keep blurred tone", is also the truth.
This is not unique to this era, the American painter O'Keefe is also a Fashion Icon level woman, she liked to wear long skirts all her life, and loved black and white. "The love of black is not a preference, but a practical consideration, and if you need to choose a variety of clothes, you don't have time to paint," she says. "
In addition to black, khaki is also common she wears, khaki has a "neutral" feeling, with deep, light can be, is a very good temper transition color.
A person who hides a little "old school" will definitely like brown, which also belongs to the kind of "blurry tone", but with a little more "old fashion" than other colors, and brown is a more gentle neutral color. Jo will use some patterns to match, such as python shoes, or Gucci's old flowers ~ ~
This is the more classic "Jo style collocation", these pieces seem to have N kinds of arrangements. If you are traveling for business, you can bring such clothes to be used repeatedly. I don't have to work hard to carry a piece out of the house, but I only wear it once
Gray is also the color Jo mentions, so these so-called "base colors" are not a cliché. The reason why it has become a classic must be because it can solve the problem.
In fact, aside from the clothes, what we want you to notice more is the tight rhythm of her body, which cannot be performed.
I also want to let everyone pay attention to the things behind the clothes, fashion trends are limited, such as body, looks, age, work environment, etc. May hinder you from actually applying a certain trend, but the spirit of fashion is not, its spread can be farther and longer.
We also hope that you can learn more about other circles outside of fashion bloggers, this circle is the same as the film circle, there are people in front of the screen, some people behind the scenes, and the people in front of the screen are only one of the characters, not all. After all, even in this "impetuous fashion circle" that has been infinitely criticized, the real "currency" in circulation is content, not a show by anyone, and Editor is editor, blogger is blogger.
Finally, in the end, I hope to help you dispel some anxiety, not necessarily any trend, no new bags, new shoes and nothing, you quietly wear your own clothes, very good.
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Written by: Teresa Zhao
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