5 Shades in 5 Days
I remember the first day that I moved to Florida 7 years ago and being so blinded by the light that I literally could not open my eyes and that is no exaggeration. After that day I knew that I would...
View ArticleGoing Home
Going home can be an absolutely wonderful thing. Take that from someone who said that after she left for college she would never come back. A week before summer classes started I decided that the best...
View ArticleToni Smailagic
4 years ago when I was beginning my modeling career I came across the work of a small up and coming photographer from Jacksonville, Florida who managed to make the city I hated most seem so much more...
View ArticleTalisman
I have always wanted to be the type of person that has a ring or necklace or something that they wear all the time because of the memories it holds for them but sadly I have never come into the...
View ArticleSunday Style: Janelle Monae
Black and white has never looked so appealing and surprisingly versatile until Janelle Monae came on the stage. I remember a few years ago I came across the picture above in the center and immediately...
View ArticleTouch The Sky
Touch the sky and learn how to fly. Don't let fear hold you back but motivate you to move forward. Channel your energies and start to jump, run, dance--move. Live life in the fast lane because baby...
View ArticleArt Nouveau and Fashion
Last semester I spent a good bit of time researching the Art Nouveau movement from the 1880s into the early 1900s. To give you a brief synopsis of what Art Nouveau was: a group of people who were fed...
View ArticleSchiaparelli and Surrealism
"In the 1930s Elsa Shiaparelli, whose designs engaged seriously with Surrealism, used fashion to question the place of women in the society of the time and, with her use of mirrors, masquerade and...
View ArticleLadies
For the past few week's I have begun to branch out in my photography. As you saw in my post with the beautiful Janely a few weeks back I have been practicing shooting people other than myself and it is...
View ArticleThe Aesthetic of the Ugly
As I mentioned last week there is going to be an influx of wordy posts on the blog for the next few weeks. Today's post is all about the aesthetic of the ugly. What do I mean exactly? That sometimes in...
View ArticlePunk and Modern Art
“Punk took to the London streets in the long hot summer of 1976, and took modernism much further than the mods had done. This really was the fashion equivalent of modernism in art: ‘Like...
View ArticleAdorned in Dreams
After a long week of art theory and it's inter-relation with fashion theory today I have one last extra extra long post that is littered with images to hopefully keep you interested in what I consider...
View ArticleStyle and Diane Vreeland
I don't care who I am, with whatever job I do, wearing whatever labels I wear, I would never ever EVER want to be caught wearing the same thing as someone else. Even when I was attending a uniform...
View ArticleWho Are We Dressing For?
“Women, and men, may dress to defy parents, spouse, a whole community; equally they may dress in a way that they hope will mean that no one ever notices them. Women certainly do not always dress ‘for...
View ArticleNothing is Real
Tim Walker said it best, "Everything is contrived from the start. Nothing is R E A L. So what you are trying to do in this fake world is to make a real moment happen by installing genuineness into the...
View ArticleDress in the City
It's been a few weeks since I have done an FIU Style Sighting's feature on the blog and you have my sincerest apologies for that. Summer school along with extra-cirricular projects has been more...
View ArticleSummertime Sadness
A few weeks ago I got the chance to photograph one of my favorite muses, Janely Rodriguez. Instead of shooting on campus we got to travel to her house and I fell head over heels for her home. With most...
View ArticleAlchemy
“Modernism was a response to the challenge of nineteenth-century science, which had investigated reality in new ways. Although science regarded the visible world as the real world, by contrast with an...
View ArticleArtists Unite
I am so excited to announce that I will be in my first ever gallery show one week from today!!! A few months ago I came across the group RAW Artists and was extremely impressed by their coalition and...
View ArticleSuper Moon Weekend
I am so sorry for my lack of presence on the blog recently; life has been chaotic in all the best ways. As we all know I'm sure just from the overflowing number of posts on facebook/twitter/instagram...
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