Craving a ‘capsule wardrobe’ is the most boring fucking thing you could possibly want.
It’s nothing more than a not-so-stylish rebrand of (dry heaves) minimalism.
Before you commit to this doomed personal rebrand, take a good look at yourself and ask, which one of these do you want to be?
A beige, bland, if-you-were-a-spice-you’d-be-flour repeat?
OR
Someone that thinks for themselves?
Do you want to look like this silicon valley, instagram clone, epidemic of sameness?
Or when people look at you, do you want them to see you for the person you are?
If you want good style, then you already understand that your taste is currently sitting as un-lived potential.
If you want to communicate who you are through purchasing a new wardrobe, then you need to stop letting other people, WHO LOOK LIKE OTHER PEOPLE, tell you what to wear.
You need to ask yourself the following:
What do I like? Stop thinking about clothes. What do you like?
What books do you like to read? What characters do you identify with? What are your favorite colors, what are your favorite memories? Who are the people that you like to be with? What inspires you?
If you ever find yourself thinking ‘I like this, but I dont know if [fill in the blank mystery person that you don’t actually know] does… STOP. START OVER.
Once you have identified what you, yourself, enjoy, like, are inspired by, only then should you begin curating your wardrobe. Purchasing anything before this point is a waste of time and money, and the only thing you’re going to prove is that you have a really big fetish for copy and paste.
You are never going to have good style by looking like someone else.
There is no magic formula. There is not right amount of beige or perfect amount of cable knit that replaces the work of finding out who you are.
And spoiler alert? It’s going to change.
Hopefully, a lot.
Hopefully, all the time.
The people who look the best are not the people that take style advice. They’re the ones who create their own style. Who relentlessly, joyously, passionatly, find themselves again and again and again. The people that we look up to years later, when what they did then becomes fashionable now.
Be ugly. Be weird.
Scrape the palatable conglomerate of the masses off your tongue and reach for a new taste. Your style is a self-fulfilling prophecy, and every day, YOU write the script.
With great personal aesthetic,
Alexandra Diana, The A List
Capsule wardrobes are only as boring as you are. If you think a capsule can only be a collection of bland, beige basics, then yes, I agree. That version is trash.
Yes. I like this a lot