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Personal Trend: Literature

 
“Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered.” Ray Bradbury
Your fashion choices can act like a clandestine symbol for the things and people you love.  Take my all time favorite poetic prose novel, below I’ve assembled two outfits inspired by Ray Bradbury’s classic.
LOFT, BC Footwear, Old Navy, Lacoste, Boden
Mid-length Skirts by Boden
Flats by BC Footwear

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The dandelion print of the skirt echoes the themes of treasuring the common and bottling away happy moments. 
The protaganist, Douglas Spaulding is remembered with a schoolboy fit dandelion yellow gingham.
White sneakers reminisce Douglas’s gazel running Cream-Sponge Para Litefoots.

The time narratives of Colonel Freeleigh and Helen Loomis and Bill Forrester (the precursor to Somewhere in Time) is made tangible by the green wrist watch.

Miss Me, Ariella Collection, Forever 21, Asos
Sleeveless Tops by Asos
Flats by Miss Me

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In the hue of fresh dandelions the Peter Pan collar blouse, recognizes the resistance of never wanting to grow up.
Freshly cut, grass green denim celebrates the first day of summer: the first lawn cutting of the year.
Mrs. Bentley is remembered by the trinket ring she “stole” from the young girl she never was.

The shoes are another interpretation of the Cream-Sponge Para Litefoot Shoes 

The glasses speak to the paradigm shifting realizations like Leo Aufman’s Happiness Machine.

And the belt, well it was a cute belt.

Dandelion Fashion
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Gamine Blouses
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Grass & Sunshine Denim
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Personal Trend: Art

“flattery and criticism [should] go down the same drain”
Georgia O’Keefe
I swoon for Georgia O’Keefe.  Not her oversized flowers, although I respect the movement to amplify details.  I am drawn to the abstract rhythms she finds in desert bleached bones and empty city skylines. 

Rather than following an empty trend based on someone else’s adorations, I’ve taken one of my favorite works of art and assembled an ensemble.

Pour La Victoire, Anthropologie, Ariella Collection
Day Dresses by Talbots
Sandals by Pour La Victoire

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Earthy Day Dresses
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Tribal Accessories
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Native Sandals
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What artists and works of art inspire you?

Banana Republic, Steve Madden, Rachel Roy
Day Dresses by Rachel Roy
Sandals by Steve Madden

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