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After being just blessed and just god damn lucky to attend this year’s Teen Vogue U I have come to the realization of one main topic that every designer has said in there little speeches….they have all said to say true to your own artistic style. I always knew that but it has never really been tested until yesterday. As you few loyal readers know that by now (or I can just tell you now) is that I have a very specific type of dress. I tend to have to semi-tailor look to my style with hints of vintage,second hand, and splashes of metal femenine accents. So of course this comes very naturally to me and in my head it is very effortless. Its happens to be just also I buy almost everything n calm and neutral colors so it just lends itself to be just brainless to match in the early mornings of MICA or in this case NYC.

I talk about this since I had an almost insulting yet refreshing encounter to a student photographer. He was going around a photographing people who had “effortless” style during  this Teen Vogue U event. Sure that sounds very typical, a fashion photographer just getting a boat load of pictures. Surely I was not thinking about being photographed but then my fellow friend who was right next to me at the moment was apporached to be photographed for his “effortless” style. I can’t say it was effortless but it was much more urban,trendy, and experimental then what I was wearing. He was wearing a DIY bleach ombre button up with stud detailing on the collar, a gray blazer with polka dot trim on the pockets, dark red skinny jeans and black and white bowling style shoes. In contrasting with me with my all black button up,slim pants, satin skinny fit blazer, accented with a white and black polka dotted bow tie, a Christian Dior gold tags necklace, gold pin on the blazer, then my typical Asos brown leather oxford shoes with printed socks. I can I just say in this situation that I know for a fact that we both take roughly the same amount of time and effort in our outfits but the real contrasting factor of us is the actual style. Him being being more trendy and just more youthful in style where I am just more classic and simple which is accented with ornate details. I can’t just which is more effortless or easy but to tell you the truth mine felt easy to me since I had a very limited color scheme and had a solid base to work from. For him which was much more complicated where there were contrasting patterns,textures, and fits.

So to go off from the word “effortless” I personally don’t think effortless is the right adjective to really say anyone style is. I just think it is a just the sense of age,current trendiness of it…so many more factors that make it look more grunge, urban ,thrown together but the ironic thing is that “throwing” things together is much more difficult then just saying simple and classic. Not saying one is better or easier then the other but I want to make a point of miss using the word effortless. I personally do understand how I can look very put together, posed…and all things both casual at all but saying someone that they are not effortless is just rude. Its basically saying that we have a visual struggle everyday with yourself and how you want to visual represent you as a working person.

For a good day of so I had a identity crisis ( ok,not really but) I began to question myself for a while and does my visual look or style really relate to the public anymore or does it look forced? I talked it through with a fellow friend (Caroline Wimberly Smith who goes to PARSONS!) about this questioning of life and she and I talked it through and I came to the understanding that personal aesthetics and style is who we are as artist and we need to stay with it. No matter what trend (which is currently is rough and tough miss matching…) just do what feel most comfortable and best represents you and or how you feel as yourself at that moment. I thought for a second  that I lost to sense of taste, unique quality of me, just something wasn’t there anyone but really I was just looking in the wrong areas. I’m not youthful, 100% trendy…sure I have elements of that but I’m built on classics and nostalgic styles. Sure that might not appeal to some people and obviously it won’t on style forever but who really cares anymore. I obviously is trying to faze my way out of that now. Thanks to this miss have , I have just became someone who is really beginning to own ones self.