#040: Who I Want To Be This Summer, Part I
Outfit dispatch from the best time of the year to get dressed.
I recently shot this project with Mango that I’m absolutely obsessed with because it so perfectly encapsulates everything I love about summer dressing: you’re not really dressed. I mean, yes, you are, but the skin-baring, sticky-from-light-sweat sexiness that oozes out of you is an unmatched feeling. I get that the below visual suggests a trip to a remote Mallorca cove more than a trip to Prospect Park lawn, but you get it… Fall/winter layering aficionados may argue otherwise but summer dressing feels the most intuitive and the most fun. You may have other concerns but not being warm enough isn’t one of them!
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I try not to let the combined excitements of summer and markdowns on current season collections lead me down a destructive path of trend-driven, time-specific pieces so this year, I’m envisioning shopping for the pieces that hit the perfect mark on being ultimately fun/cute/bright/etc but will see significant wear beyond the excitement of just one summer season.
I’ve decided this shopping guide will be a part of a series; how many parts there will be is still TBD. And while we are already approaching mid-June (I’m disgusted and scared at how fast time flies in the summer), I am still declaring it the beginning of summer and I’m here for your shopping and dressing needs! For this first installment, I present to you the first little characters I’ve been whipping out this month.
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I went to an event at Diane von Furstenberg’s private office above her flagship store in the Meatpacking district and clocked a girl wearing this outfit and I just had to recreate it. I love being inspired IRL by my peers. The pants are on mega sale and still available in sizes 2 and 6 (I’m wearing a 2 for reference) so get ‘em while you can!
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