I definitely have a love-hate relationship with New York fashion trends. I can remember being 23 and positively salivating over the prospect of putting together outfits that mimicked what I saw cool girls wearing on the streets of Manhattan. I would document my favorites on Pinterest, rip ...

One day, when my mom was 11 years old, she came home to find her Por Por, her grandmother, crying in her room. My mom and her brother asked Por Por what was the matter, and Por Por replied that she had spied an image of herself in the mirror across the hall. From her place on her bed, the ...

Professor Louise Wilson, head of the MA fashion course at Saint Martins, was the heart and soul of the place. Everyone looked at her with awe and terror, including most of the tutors. She wore all black, had fire-engine-red hair, and was a self-proclaimed "miserable, fat fuck." It was like she ...

For the past four years, I've had "nothing to wear" despite having too many clothes and too little shelf space and, up until recently, I could never put my finger on why. A couple of months ago, I was introduced to Un-Fancy, a minimalist fashion blog that encourages you to build out a ... Continue

I can’t remember the first time I broke down crying in a dressing room, but I do remember the first time that a store didn’t have my size after I failed to button up jeans. It was during back-to-school shopping after a very dramatic summer. I wanted bell bottom jeans with swallow tail butterflies