tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34544876216618975922024-03-18T04:57:18.654-07:00Talk FashionTalkfashion is a fashion blog centered on the principles of expression and inspiration. Looking towards art, nature, music, and love, fashion is a journey of life.Maya Horikawa http://www.blogger.com/profile/01731517375285303807noreply@blogger.comBlogger619125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3454487621661897592.post-45710956742949344962018-08-29T00:58:00.001-07:002018-08-29T00:58:35.567-07:00Ep.3 TRASHION: Hegel's Holiday René Magritte<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rUk0BNqkZ0E" width="480"></iframe>Maya Horikawa http://www.blogger.com/profile/01731517375285303807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3454487621661897592.post-19482815153667047762018-04-10T23:35:00.000-07:002018-04-10T23:37:17.342-07:00SUNSHINE STYLE FOR A SKEPTIC<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The birds are chirping and the sun has risen. Spring has somehow already arrived and Summer is just around the corner.</div>
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Florals everywhere and the earth is celebrating life, love, and new beginnings!</div>
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The problem is, what do you do when your mood is in darkness, pessimism, and ultimate skepticism? You just aren't feeling it, and you rather just crawl back in your moody dark corner with your black yoga pants. The last thing you would ever want is a bit of sunshine.</div>
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Hold on my friend, skeptics can also do well with a bit of sunshine in the their Spring style. There are ways to keep your edgy style while adding a bit of light and life to your dark aesthetic. </div>
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<b>1.) BE BOLD WITH COLOR: </b></div>
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As a skeptic, you are naturally opinionated and have no problems questioning the norm. Use that courage, and gamble on a powerful color. Try a bright red/orange with harsh lines, and dare to be seen. It's a statement of power, and it suits you. </div>
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If you have never tried vintage shopping, give it a try. Most skeptics detest being like everyone else, and shopping in vintage shops is guaranteed to suit your desire for individuality. The 60's were a very creative, and daring period of fashion. Mod Style, is edgy, bright and fun. </div>
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(The dress I am wearing above, belonged to my mother from the 60's.)</div>
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A skeptic, loves nothing more than a good argument, and a playful banter of opposites. If you can't commit to head to toe color, then intermix it, and create irony. A black leather jacket casually worn over a soft floral, is a salty bite to a sweet center. </div>
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From one skeptic to another, don't be so predictable and wear the same style or color every day of the year. There is nothing edgy about a one dimensional style formula.</div>
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Have you ever thought about why we wear clothes?</div>
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We are the only species that have adopted the art of dressing, and nudists would argue, it's plain unnatural. </div>
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Unnatural for an animal, but not so for a human. </div>
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Humans have an innate ability to multitask multiple ideas, emotions, problem solve, and develop. This complexity, results in the need for creative ways to express life, far beyond our instincts. </div>
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Creativity is a skill that must be practiced and strengthened on a daily basis, and yet it is one of the most neglected tools of life. </div>
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This is wear fashion takes its role in everyones life as a tool to use creativity or not.</div>
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If you are a realist, you may dress strictly for practical reasons. If you are a religious person, you may dress strictly for modesty. A materialist, may dress to claim status, and power. </div>
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However, a person who dresses themselves to practice creativity and actively express themselves, is a living art form. </div>
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It is an interesting idea of how we "feel" verses how we are. If you feel beautiful, you are bringing out beauty that you have. A brightness, a smile, a light, you are giving off energy. This is interesting, because we live in a society highly dominated by what we see verses what we feel. The need to be "flawless", and the obsession of all or nothing. It has the majority of us seeing only our flaws, while completely neglecting the positive.<br />
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Female empowerment is on a huge rise, and the fashion world has taken notice.</div>
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The beauty of what we wear and how we wear it, is the freedom to freely express ourselves without the disruption of genders, politics, or religious practice. It should not be used as a tool to divide, but as a practice to celebrate Humanism.</div>
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<b><i>Humanism- is a progressive lifestance that, without theism or other supernatural beliefs, affirms our ability and responsibility to lead meaningful, ethical lives capable of adding to the greater good of humanity. </i></b></div>
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The sooner we see fashion as a humanist, the quicker we can make the appropriate changes to how the fashion world functions and thinks. Humans need to support humans, before the profit line.</div>
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A no makeup face in a cosmopolitan society, is translated as lazy, unhealthy, or unprofessional. While those who believe in the authentic life of a bare face, may deem a full face of makeup as fake, superficial, and manipulative. So, which one is it? Can these two worlds ever collide in a balanced harmony?</div>
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Finding comfort in your own skin with no makeup is a valuable lesson of self acceptance, and confidence. One should be comfortable to show their bare face in front of anyone, and understand the unique beauty of being completely natural. </div>
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Just as one decorates a table for a dinner party, makeup is an artistic exploration of colors, angles, textures, and the effects of aesthetics on human interaction. </div>
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We are born into this world with an identity. A name given to us by our parents, and a life predestined by the hopes and circumstances placed by everyone around us. How do you define yourself? A race, a gender, a career, social status, fame or money?<br />
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Fashion. As superficial, meaningless, and vain as many people believe it to be, it is actually one of the most practical ways of discovering your identity on a daily basis. What you wear is a reflection of how you think and feel. This is why your style evolves alongside your experiences, confidence maturity and surroundings. </div>
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Creating yourself neither begins nor ends with what you wear, but it is a progression of limitless ideas and questions regarding yourself as a work of art. </div>
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Who are you today and how would you express it? What are your limits, fears, and dreams? Break free from the mold of following everyone else around you, and start questioning and creating your own path. </div>
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<i> In 2018, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Talk Fashion Blog</span>, will be exploring new and unique ways to explore the art of fashion expression. Fusing the fashion world with philosophy, psychology literature, mathematics, music, and art, we will be exploring the limits of personal style. Join us!</i></div>
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<i><b>What wrong did I do? What good did I accomplish? What did I forget to do? "</b></i></div>
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New Year's Resolutions are often created with a mindful goal to attack specific things you would like to change about yourself. Whether it be your weight, your lifestyle, or unrequited passions, a better you is waiting to be born. Unfortunately, every year we spend 10 minutes creating a list that is probably more productively used as a piece of scratch paper.</div>
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New Year's resolutions usually fail, because they are concentrated lists of problems, without any regard to the formula behind these bad habits. Here are 3 examples of how fashion can help your resolutions:</div>
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You make a list of how you will exercise more, eat less, and stay away from processed foods. Sounds like a good plan, right? Wrong. This plan is too centralized on the specific problem and lacking in inspiration, and motivation. If you want to lose 10 pounds, try adding the element of fashion and stay motivated. Invest in an attractive, but comfortable work out gear and enjoy getting ready for your exercise sessions. Buy a fun dress that is 1-2 sizes smaller, and hang it in a place you can see it every morning. Use it to motivate you, and provide you with visual imagery that is a tangible version of the future you are creating. </div>
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Your plan includes, going out more, downloading a dating app, and being more "social", but most likely you will do none of them. The problem is, improving your personal life, can only happen, if you change on a "personal" level. Often times, this includes what we choose to wear. We fail to realize the impact of how we dress, and its relationship to how it attracts or rejects human interaction.</div>
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The style of clothing, color, and cleanliness, are all factors observed before a smile is exchanged, or a word is spoken. If you want to improve your social life, start by evaluating your current fashion choices. Simple changes such as wearing a softer or brighter color, will immediately make you appear more cheerful and approachable. </div>
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Your plan includes calculating your finances, and mustering up enough courage to quit your stable job. However, most people, never find the courage and live a life of paying bills, and unrequited dreams. </div>
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To "imagine" the reality of a dream, you must realize the discomfort of the unknown. Fear is one of the main reasons we stop ourselves from pursuing our passions, but the lack of positive visual imagery also exacerbate our fears.</div>
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Like a baby, it is the unconscious element we are born with that is extremely impulsive. It has a simplistic desire to satisfy our primal instincts, without any regard to its effects on others. This is the part of you that picks clothes based on primitive needs, such as warmth, desire, pleasure, etc. </div>
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Welcome to TALKFASHION!</div>
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Inspired by nature, art, music, and culture, TALKFASHION, covers the evolving force of self discovery. </div>
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The inner dialogue between you and your heart is the key essence of finding yourself and your style. </div>
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Forever looking to what inspires you, fight the gravity of normality.</div>
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Be brave enough to make mistakes, and have courage to walk the path alone.</div>
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What you wear is equally simplistic and complex. They say, " Never judge a book by its' cover, but how introspective to create the perfect cover for a specified book!</div>
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You are a what you wear and within that equation is art. </div>
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What do you feel, and how will you arrange your image today?</div>
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Sincerely,</div>
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<span style="font-size: 21px;">箱入り娘 (<i>hako-iri-musume), </i>is a Japanese proverb describing a metaphorical "box" that surrounds a girl who was raised in an overprotected family, and given very little freedom. </span></div>
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At the heart of TALKFASHION, is a <i>Girl in a Box</i> (箱入り娘). For her, fashion is an inspirational tool to discovering herself, and finding her voice. Breaking free from her mental prison, requires cutting the need to impress, and the importance of her heart. Observations of nature, art, music, color, and emotions, are all used as guides to push her senses of expression.<br />
What she wears is no longer just garments to keep her warm, nor are they tools to impress her peers. Clothes, are now a self discovery tool, of creating an image that reflects the person inside.<br />
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Maya Horikawa http://www.blogger.com/profile/01731517375285303807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3454487621661897592.post-53504004802901752332017-07-13T02:18:00.000-07:002017-07-13T02:27:13.990-07:00ARE YOU FASHION PIGEONHOLING?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><b><u>Pigeonholing</u></b> is any process that attempts to classify disparate entities into a small number of categories (usually, mutually exclusive ones).</i></div>
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<i><b><u>Fashion Pigeonholing</u></b> is when you classify yourself into a particular style group. </i></div>
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A lot of how we dress, is a direct representation of who we think we are, and how we see ourselves. Factors like, social circles, work, school, hobbies, etc., can find us stuck on a limited variation of self awareness and style. </div>
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This is your comfort zone, and it feels safe. You know it well, and chances are you've dressed that way for years. You shop at the same stores, gravitate to the same colors, and basically, buy the same outfit in slightly different shades and lengths. </div>
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The problem is, life is an ever evolving force. You are evolving and your style should be as well. Staying fresh means trying something new. This does not mean you should make a 180 degree fashion flip and abandon everything you know. Fashion is a collection of ideas, and keeping the essence of your style aesthetic will stay relatively unharmed. The challenge lies only in your own mental stereotypes of who you think you were, are, and will be. </div>
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To this day, every time I go shopping I can still hear my mother's infamous words, "Oh no.. that's not YOU!" . Funny enough, those exact words are still preventing myself from stepping out of my little pigeon hole. </div>
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The truth of the matter is, laziness is ugly. YOU are not Ugly. </div>
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Like anything in life, "effort" does make a difference. Those extra 5 minutes of attention, will make a world of difference in your appearance, mental health, mood, and self image. </div>
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Beauty is defined in the <b>work</b> you apply to take care of yourself. Just like a plant needs proper nutrients, sunlight, and water, your attractiveness depends on factors of maintenance.</div>
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This includes: skincare, hygiene, exercise, personal maintenance and wisdom. I hate to break it to you, but you are not just born beautiful. No one is. </div>
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It is a daily effort that fluctuates based on will power. I personally, struggle with my skin and weight during stressful or hard moments in my life. This is a result of poor food choices, lack of sleep, and exercise. </div>
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Just like any skill, you must learn the techniques to maneuver your actions for the desired reactions. Learning from your mistakes, looking for solutions and striving to be better on a consistent basis, is not an easy task. It is okay to fail, we all do; but, personal beauty can only be achieved with humility and acceptance of those mistakes, and the commitment to try again. </div>
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The way you live your life, and the effort you put into yourself, is your personal canvas. </div>
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The clothes you wear, match your personal aesthetic. The books you read, represent the shape and directions of your thoughts. The food you eat, symbolizes your desire to live. The art you love represents your soul.</div>
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Just like the furniture in your home, your efforts should bring you joy, and comfort. </div>
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It has been awhile since I have updated TALKFASHION, and from today all that will change. </div>
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Look forward to new layouts, fashion articles, ootd, and much much more!! </div>
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Lately, my new obsession has been <a href="http://www.instagram.com/mayahorikawa">INSTAGRAM</a> <a href="http://www.instagram.com/mayahorikawa">@mayahorikawa</a>, and I have adopted rather weird social habits, and thought I 'd share them with you. DO you have any weird social habits on IG? Please follow me on IG and lets be friends! #talkfashionfam</div>
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As a child, I loved playing the memory card game. It was a game where you have to remember where the matching pairs are, and collect them. Anyways, I seem to have carried on this weird obsession of collecting like pairs on IG. I scroll through photos daily, commenting emojis that match photographs. Weird. </div>
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I always thought I was a dog person, but lately I have grown a love for cute adorable cats. Scrolling through countless funny, cute, beautiful cats is undeniably therapeutic. Weird.</div>
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I'm not sure if any of my followers realize I do this, but whenever someone comments on my photos, I will respond with a message and send them virtual gifts ( usually food emojis) , as a token of my appreciation. Yes, I am very weird.</div>
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To be honest, I am rather anti-social, and I never thought I could make so many friends from all over the world. It is a whole new concept of social interaction and a constant system of support and inspiration. </div>
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Please follow me on <a href="http://www.instagram.com/mayahorikawa">IG @mayahorikawa </a> and lets get to know each other. #talkfashionfam</div>
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The mind/brain is like the headquarters of processing practical matters of fashion. This is the area of educating yourself on fashion knowledge, etiquette, and basic common sense. Study designers, collections, trends, history, and fill up your fashion bank with information. Know the difference between, such things as black ties, verses cocktail, and most importantly use your common sense.<br />
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Positive body image and a solid understanding of your body type is a crucial aspect of fashion style. You must feel good about your body naked or else the process of dressing will always be a strategic act of hiding, manipulating, or deceiving. If you have gained some extra weight then lose it, but learn what your "healthy" weight is and STAY on it.<br />
My healthy weight is the same as when I was in High School, and I fluctuate + or - 10 pounds. Staying on this one size allows you to understand your body shape. I can look at a pair of pants, or top and know quickly whether it will fit.<br />
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The heart is by far the hardest part for most people. If you are not naturally instinctual, you may find it difficult to form your fashion style based on what you feel. It requires emotional freedom and the ability to express it without fear of judgement or rejection. Strengthening your heart, will require surrounding your life with whatever you love.<br />
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Most likely, if you are anything like my anti-social self, you will detest any inclination of following any type of "popular" idea. I value individualism and have always pushed the importance of remaining pure to your thoughts and creativity, despite the popular pull of the majority. </div>
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However, lately I catch myself getting more and more reclusive, and deeper into my isolated ideology, and it made me think. </div>
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<i>How beneficial can you be, without a decent understanding of popular social instincts?</i></div>
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Anti-social people, often feel like they don't belong anywhere, and the natural response is to isolate. Instead of living in a comfortable cave, why not use fashion trends for a bit of help. Think of it as extending an olive branch back into society. </div>
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<b>Anti-Social</b>: </div>
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<b> Fashion Trends</b>: </div>
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A popular social habit found in the practice of what people wear at a given time. </div>
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The thing is, fashion trends represent the "popular" mindset of society and its reaction to the current state of the world. Just as Art is the most honest description of all historical time periods, there is no denying fashion trends are equally representative to the expressive summary of its given moment. </div>
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This does not mean you should copy a fashion trend like a brainless zombie and start looking like everyone else. It simply means to be "inspired" by a fashion trend and make it your own. For example, chokers have made a huge come back as one of the biggest fashion trends of 2016. Everyone was rocking them 90's style with ripped boyfriends jean, white Tee, and Dior sunnies. Instead of picking the same fashion algorithm, keep a LOT of you while adding a bit of everyone else. </div>
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<b>2014-2015 Armani Privé Collection</b></div>
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Like knives to my heart, master designer of fashion art, has be transformed into a master seamstress.</div>
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As a long time lover of Armani Privé, one can immediately spot the use of identical textiles from his 2014-2015 Fall Collection, minus the haute couture.</div>
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Clearly this dress is more accurately a Janelle Monae.</div>
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Jessica Biel in Elie Saab minus the accessories. </div>
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The plunging neckline minus the ornate choker and matching cuffs, left me feeling a large chunk of Elie Saab's vision was deleted. </div>
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The problem with the merger of "Hollywood" and "fashion" is the need to be relatable.</div>
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Renowned stylists will edit or dumb-ify fashion masterpieces, in order to be like-able. </div>
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The end result, is a display of glorified mediocrity, and rather ordinary fashion. </div>
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!<br />
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<i><b>"As far as we can discern, </b></i><br />
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<br />Maya Horikawa http://www.blogger.com/profile/01731517375285303807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3454487621661897592.post-81108670159273637382016-12-25T17:15:00.001-08:002016-12-25T18:21:46.625-08:00MERRY CHRISTMAS FRIENDS! "HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS!"<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1sbGkL5S0yo" width="480"></iframe><br />
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My heart felt wishes to all of you on this very special day. May your holidays be filled with warmth, love, and positivity.<br />
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is one of my most favorite holiday songs and something I hold dear to my heart. Immortalized by the iconic Judy Garland it reminds us of life that reflects the bitter sweetness of golden moments.<br />
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Much love to you all<br />
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-Maya<br />
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HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS (Lyrics)<br />
<b data-iceapc="3" data-iceapw="17" style="text-align: -webkit-center;"><span data-iceapw="9" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial";">Music composed by Hugh Martin, lyrics by Ralph Blane</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b><span style="background-color: #333333; text-align: -webkit-center;"></span><span data-iceapw="91" style="font-family: "arial"; text-align: -webkit-center;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Have yourself a merry little Christmas,</span><br /><span style="color: #cccccc;">Let your heart be light</span><br /><span style="color: #cccccc;">From now on,</span><br /><span style="color: #cccccc;">our troubles will be out of sight</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #cccccc;">Have yourself a merry little Christmas,</span><br /><span style="color: #cccccc;">Make the Yule-tide gay,</span><br /><span style="color: #cccccc;">From now on,</span><br /><span style="color: #cccccc;">our troubles will be miles away.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #cccccc;">Here we are as in olden days,</span><br /><span style="color: #cccccc;">Happy golden days of yore.</span></span><span data-iceapw="91" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial"; text-align: -webkit-center;">Faithful friends who are dear to us<br />Gather near to us once more.<br /><br />Through the years<br />We all will be together,<br />If the Fates allow<br />Hang a shining star upon the highest bough.<br />And have yourself A merry little Christmas now. </span><span data-iceapc="1" data-iceapw="8" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center;"><br /></span><br />
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-Christmas Tree Beauty Bag: Lisbeth Dahl<br />
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-Physicians Formula Mineral Liquid Foundation: Natural Beige<br />
-Physicians Formula Concealer Stick: Light<br />
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-Too Faced: Candle light translucent Powder<br />
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-Marc Jacobs Eyeliner: black<br />
-Stila Eyeliner: Nude<br />
-CHANEL: brow pencil: black<br />
-LANCOME: Creme Highlighter: Rose gold lights 03<br />
-LANCOME: Lip oil, "Piece of Cake"<br />
-LANCOME: Lip liner, "Fraichelle"<br />
-MILANI: "Chanpagne Toast"<br />
-Marc Jacobs: Lipstick "kiss kiss bang bang"<br />
-COVERGIRL: Lipstick "Seduce"<br />
-CHANEL: Lipstick, Rouge Allure, "Emotion"<br />
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-NARS: "cruella"<br />
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During Christmas past, holiday sweaters use to be described as <b>festive</b>. I can remember as a child wearing them to school, and pretty much everyone else wore them too. Adults, teachers, children, we all proudly wore them while wishing merriment to everyone and anyone who would listen.</div>
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These sweaters were more than a fashion statement but a process of celebrating and sharing joy with others. </div>
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We would all wish each other a merry christmas and jingle all around the neighborhood. It was these sweaters that signaled our Christmas spirit! There was no shame or idea of "disgust" for being too sparkly, or overly embellished. </div>
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Not to get all Charles Dickens on you, but have we all become a bunch of Scrooges?!</div>
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Why is it that we now make fun of Christmas sweaters? We intentionally make them as ugly as possible, get together, and make fun of each others ugliness. If that doesn't spell out a dysfunctional society, I'm not really sure what does. </div>
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Have we as a society become so pessimistic, that we view the active display of joy, as a form of disgust? </div>
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Or are we all a bunch of cowards, who are too scared to show that we have an honest need to be happy?</div>
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Christmas is a beautiful time of the year and it is the one month in a year, we can give ourselves a break from our pessimistic ways, and be genuinely optimistic!</div>
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Take care and Happy Holidays! :)</div>
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Maya Horikawa http://www.blogger.com/profile/01731517375285303807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3454487621661897592.post-7285401289665880602016-12-18T18:06:00.001-08:002016-12-18T18:12:08.211-08:00FALL FAVORITES! SHOES AND BAGS<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uVEBzGAqH_8" width="480"></iframe><br />
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Swipe, swipe, swipe!</div>
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Do you ever think about how the images you see effect your brain? The scary thing is, social media is like a double sided coin. In one sense it can empower you, and in another it can manipulate and dominate your mind and opinions. </div>
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You may think your thoughts are your own, but in reality, many of your thoughts have been placed there. </div>
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Just take fashion trends as the biggest proof of product placement, and mind manipulation. Brands will contact popular bloggers, or people with large social media followers and give them free products and paid advertorials to jumpstart a "popular new trend". </div>
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Instantaneously, the product appears repeatedly in your feed, planting mental seeds in millions of brains.</div>
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The key to having original fashion style is to be aware of how social media works. Ask yourself why you like a certain fashion item? How original are you? Why do you want it?</div>
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If the main reason you want something is because you saw it all over Instagram, then give a silent applause to the brand advertisers who have successfully sold their products to you. </div>
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Happy Holiday Shopping!</div>
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