This week I’m coming in hot with a double blog post. Now that spring has sprung, I realized I need to post up the winter content I held off to posting (my apologies). With that said, enjoy this second blog post for this week!
Fashion is all about who you are. It is such an intense and intimate way to show others your vigor. That’s one of the things I love the most about fashion. I know I say this many times, but it is such a huge aspect that many forget that it needs to be re-said. Plus, it is something that I constantly bring up because it is a huge part of my fashion decision-making.
One thing about me is I am always working on myself to become the best version of myself. Who I am today is not who I was six months ago. So naturally with this, my fashion will evolve along with my inner self.
I think it started when I was around 24 years old that I started giving myself a fashion make-over around every six months. It was like a timer that would go off and suddenly I would have a revelation that I needed to enhance something or just change “x” amount of things. And still to this day at 33 years of age, I find myself still tweaking my fashion to reflect who I currently am. And personally for me, I feel there is so much fun in re-creating myself. I never get tired of doing it. I feel as if I am a flower blossoming over and over again.
When you stop and think about your life, there are times when you will often say, “oh I don’t like that.” And you truly think you don’t like that thing until time passes by and you begin to love that thing. And once you see that thing in a different way, your world changes around you with this new perspective. I just talked about this in my recent blog post about trends. So for this week, I will give you guys another example of me changing my perception. This time though, not an item, but a color.
I always swore I would never wear brown, it was a color I thought would just never work with my vision of fashion. Here I am in the year 2024, sharing a blog post where I am wearing a brown skirt, and brown boots. Now I am obsessed with wearing the color brown. And I’ve paired this outfit with silver accessories, another metal I usually would abstain from.
The silver and copper coin necklaces I am wearing are very special to me. The top one is silver, and was a gift from my mother. It was purchased in the old city bazaars of Jerusalem. The second necklace with the authentic copper Palestinian coins, was one of my birthday gifts last year from my father (purchased from Etsy).
This post was inspired by the book 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene. It was specifically Law 25: Re-Create Yourself that evoked the creativity for this blog post. While the book is an interesting read, it is definitely not information to replicate and put forth in one’s life (such as Law 14: Pose as a Friend, Move as a Spy – pretend to be friends with someone to get close to them and learn their secrets. Then use that information against them). Even in Law 25: Re-Create Yourself, it is stated to re-create yourself under the pretense of deception. This type of mindset and action is something I am against, as I move and think always with good intentions. Nonetheless, I took out of the book the positive points it had despite the overall negative persuasion. Though, I would highly recommend reading the book as it offers a clear insight into the nature of power and how those before us and today have attained it.
OUTFIT DETAILS
MAX MARA White Coat – Nordstrom (Previous Season)
MANGO Blue Poplin Top – Mango (Previous Season)
FENDI FF Logo Jacquard Velvet Pencil Skirt – Fendi (Previous Season)
27 EDIT Naturalizer Brown Boots – Naturalizer & Nordstrom
Photography by Matthew Leonetti
Ma’aasalaama xoxo
Nadine
