Your Fashion Foundations. They’re actually what they are saying on the tin. They’re the foundations try to be utilizing to make each. single. determination associated to your fashion.
They’re the constructing blocks for understanding your personal, distinctive private fashion.
They’re the filters that assist weed via all of the overwhelm with regards to style, and elegance and buying and all of that.
They’re my primary cease, and crucial software I exploit when working with each single styling shopper.
Cool however what precisely are they? I hear you say…
Let’s break them down. There are THREE basic Fashion Foundations;
- Your color palette
- Your physique’s proportions and greatest bits
- Your fashion character
Let’s look just a little bit extra at every of them and why they’re essential.
1. Color Palette
Having your “colors accomplished” was a giant factor within the 80’s, (Color Me Lovely anybody?) and now because of TikTok, its having a second once more.
However color has at all times been a software that stylists have used to assist purchasers discover the very best items for them. I exploit two spectrums: heat to chill tones, and muted via to dominant depth.
So once I speak about color with my purchasers, it much less about “oh honey, don’t put on crimson”. I hate limiting individuals with regards to their fashion. And extra about understanding the place you sit on the color spectrums, as it could possibly actually assist store extra effectively and make your wardrobe work tougher for you, in a number of methods.
- Narrowing down choices while you buy groceries. If you already know what colors to search for in-store, it makes the entire expertise much less overwhelming. Know your greatest colors can instantly eradicate 1/2 a retailer probably. Color can also be a really helpful first search software. It’s the simplest factor to see on a store flooring, so use your colors to seek out the items you wish to attempt on. It’s going to save a bunch of time!
- Realizing tips on how to combine and match your current wardrobe. Color in the identical color palette will most definitely work collectively, so when you’re buying inside your very best color palette, the probabilities of every thing mixing and matching nicely are a lot, a lot increased.
- Understanding your greatest colors may help cull a number of the items in your wardrobe that you simply’re not sporting…. You won’t even realise you don’t put on one thing as a result of it’s not your very best color. However usually there are 2 explanation why that is the case. 1. it simply doesn’t look pretty much as good on you. 2. its actually laborious to match it again with anything in your wardrobe as a result of it doesn’t play nicely with the opposite colors you personal.
2. Your physique’s proportions and greatest bits
Once more, this isn’t a lot about pigeon-holing you right into a physique sort (though that may nonetheless be actually useful for some individuals!) and extra about understanding your personal distinctive proportions and likewise having the ability to determine, and costume to, your personal greatest bits.
Dressing nicely is 100& dressing to spotlight your greatest bits, slightly than dressing to cover the bits you’re not so eager on.
When you can determine the elements of your physique you’re the MOST assured in drawing consideration to, after which dressing to do exactly that, you’re at all times going to really feel good in what you put on.
Observe: once I say “draw consideration to, that doesn’t at all times imply “reveal”. My legs are considered one of my greatest bits, however I really like a large leg pant as a lot as a brief skirt – BOTH draw consideration to that space, simply in numerous methods.
Understanding how garments match in your distinctive physique is likely one of the easiest methods to outline your fashion. If one thing doesn’t look good on you, merely don’t put on it – tendencies be damned! But when you LOVE one thing, flog it as a lot as your can, no matter what anybody else is sporting.
3. Your Fashion Persona.
That is by FAR crucial of your Stlyle Foundations so far as I’m involved. Your Fashion Persona is a set of phrases, that as a collective, describe your private fashion (or the place you’d prefer it to be). I get my purchasers to consider three phrases that characterize the fashion they wish to have.
My three fashion character phrases are FEMININE | EDGY | ELEVATED. They outline not solely every thing I buy but additionally HOW I put all my outfits collectively.
For instance, if I’m sporting fairly a female, fairly costume, I instantly wish to add some edge with a shoe selection – I’l add some Converse excessive tops, or some studded sandals, slightly than including a girly heel or ballet flats. To raise, a blazer, or jacket simply lifts the look, or I’ll add an surprising color combo that most individuals wouldn’t put on to make my outfit stand out just a bit.
Pinterest is a good software when discovering, or re-assessing your Fashion Persona. It’s a good way to visually specific belongings you like, and group them collectively within the boards to provide you some readability round your personal sense of favor.
How you can USE your Fashion Foundations successfully
Now that you’ve extra of an understanding of what your Fashion Foundations are, EVERY fashion determination you make, going ahead, ought to be primarily based on these three frameworks.
Use them as filters;
While you’re cleansing out your wardrobe:
- do the garments you may have match inside your color palette, are they straightforward to all match again collectively?
- do your garments do the very best on your physique form, do they spotlight the great bits, or are they there to cover issues?
- do your current garments match at the very least ONE of your Fashion Persona phrases?
While you’re buying:
- Begin through the use of your color palette because the visible filter. Solely take a look at items that sit someplace in your vary.
- Assess if belongings you attempt on outline your greatest bits.
- Is what you’re buying a mirrored image of those phrases
While you’re placing outfits collectively:
- Are you enjoying with matching colors in your palette? Or are you defaulting to ‘black and…”
- Are you able to tweak issues to attract consideration TO your good bits. Do you have to tuck one thing in? Or roll the sleeves or hem up, or elongate your physique with a vetical line?
- Are ALL THREE of your Fashion Persona phrases mirrored within the look you’ve created?
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I hope that helps clarify just a little extra about what your Fashion Foundations are and WHY they’re so helpful with regards to understanding your personal fashion.
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