Okay, kids, story time!
Way back in 2007, I was reading an amazing little book called Everything I Ate. Author Tucker Shaw decided to photograph every single thing he ate, every single day, for an entire year--and the result is TOTALLY captivating. Seriously, I never would have guessed that snapshots of Cheerios with brief captions could lure my in and make me wonder all about the guy's life, why he was eating that thing that day, and what my own relationship to food is. So of COURSE I eventually came around to thinking about how cool it would be to have the equivalent thing, but with fashion instead of food.
I imagined a site where people from all over the place would tell us what was going through their minds when they got dressed that day. No matter how much little someone cares about fashion, they still have to make choices about it at least every 24 hours--but it's very rare to get anyone else's perspective on this daily ritual. Glorious little fires of glee started burning in my mind, and eventually this blog came to be (beautiful story, non?). It encompasses way more than just photos, but I think that a healthy dose of slightly voyeuristic and majorly fascinating pictures of people with their own captions is still vital! I'm super excited to start doing this and am going to be putting out a call for contributors.In the meantime, it's only fair that I start with myself. Here is a very, um, unedited shot of me from a few days ago, after work:
To me, fashion is so much more than fabulous shoes and purses that cost more than rent; what makes it forever fascinating is WHY it happens. I'm looking so super-forward to getting mountains of pictures and thoughts to post for y'all's viewing pleasure.
I was inspired that day by the very gorgeous Gucci spring campaign (yah, the same one I wrote about recently) with its stodgy-meets-edgy vibe. So I prepped up my jeans with a bright pink button-down, but made it fitted with a safety pin at the waist. The coral beads were my grandmother's & I adore them. I liked the whole deal and felt rather fierce (props to Christian of Project Runway), but it did seem a little dressed-down once I got to work. My colleagues don't really do retro. Oh well.
2 comments:
Yay! I'm so glad you liked that food book I got you. It is so inexplicably intriguing. I swear, I almost kept it for myself and got you something else!
And appropriate that you bring it up, because it seems your path into fashion is similar to my path into food studies - it says so much about who we are and how we've been raised and acculturated, and is just so fascinating to study! It's why I can't help but examine the shopping carts of everyone else in the grocery store.
Bowen, I should really give you props for giving me that book! It really did inspire this whole thing.
And I think that's so fascinating about the similar insight you can have via food choices...a grocery-cart photo blog could be your next side project, perhaps?
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