Find Your Personal Fashion Style

How would you describe your personal fashion style? Classic, romantic, sporty, bohemian? Or a cross between one or two of those categories with your unique spin? In this digital age, there is plenty of fashion inspiration to help you put together your look.

When I was sixteen, I used to wait impatiently for my monthly edition of Seventeen to arrive (a month out of date by the time I r

eceived it by sea-mail). My friends and I used to drool over the clothes, dog earring the pages to replicate cool outfits. Fast forward a few years and I’m proud to realise I’ve changed and maybe grown up a bit. I don’t buy fashion magazines anymore (just when I can write them off as work expenses) because high fashion just doesn’t jive with my practical, busy lifestyle. I can’t connect with those perfect models who’ve spent hours in makeup and hair only to emerge like plastic mannequins wearing stilettos on the beach. I can’t connect with them because while they look chic and well put together, their clothes are devoid of any of their personality.

What rocks my fashion boat now is blogs. I love getting inspired by street fashion photos and by blogs written by women all around the world who love expressing themselves through their clothes. That’s what I connect with. Not the idealistic perfection and professional styling, but with the personality, energy, spontaneity and sense of fun that comes through what they wear as they go about their lives. Even though I work as a professional personal stylist, I remind myself and some of my clients that it’s wonderful to be able to show off your personality and creativity through clothes; at the end of the day however, we’re here to enjoy life not to obsess how to dress for it.

And that’s why I chose this beautiful photo from www.simplylulustyle.com for this blog. I don’t know LuLu at all, but came across her photo in pinterest and it struck a cord with me. She looks so content, relaxed and carefree. I noticed that in her first, before her outfit (which by the way is simple and amazingly chic). And that’s what clothes should do for: they communicate and enhance what we have inside, outside.

Find Your Personal Fashion Style