Your Fashion Foundations. They’re actually what they are saying on the tin. They’re the foundations you ought to be utilizing to make each. single. resolution associated to your fashion.
They’re the constructing blocks for understanding your individual, distinctive private fashion.
They’re the filters that assist weed by way of all of the overwhelm with regards to vogue, and elegance and buying and all of that.
They’re my primary cease, and an important 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 elementary Fashion Foundations;
- Your color palette
- Your physique’s proportions and finest bits
- Your fashion persona
Let’s look somewhat bit extra at every of them and why they’re vital.
1. Color Palette
Having your “colors carried out” was a giant factor within the 80’s, (Color Me Stunning anybody?) and now because of TikTok, its having a second once more.
However color has all the time been a software that stylists have used to assist purchasers discover the perfect items for them. I exploit two spectrums: heat to chill tones, and muted by way of to dominant depth.
So once I discuss color with my purchasers, it much less about “oh honey, don’t put on purple”. I hate proscribing folks 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 more durable for you, in a number of methods.
- Narrowing down choices once you buy groceries. If you understand what colors to search for in-store, it makes the entire expertise much less overwhelming. Know your finest colors can instantly eradicate 1/2 a retailer probably. Color can also be a really helpful first search software. It’s the best factor to see on a store ground, so use your colors to seek out the items you wish to strive on. It’ll save a bunch of time!
- Figuring out how one can combine and match your present wardrobe. Color in the identical color palette will more than likely work collectively, so in the event you’re buying inside your ultimate color palette, the possibilities of every little thing mixing and matching effectively are a lot, a lot greater.
- Understanding your finest colors may help cull among 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 ultimate color. However typically there are 2 the reason why that is the case. 1. it simply doesn’t look pretty much as good on you. 2. its actually arduous to match it again with anything in your wardrobe as a result of it doesn’t play effectively with the opposite colors you personal.
2. Your physique’s proportions and finest 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 folks!) and extra about understanding your individual distinctive proportions and likewise with the ability to determine, and costume to, your individual finest bits.
Dressing effectively is 100& dressing to spotlight your finest bits, fairly than dressing to cover the bits you’re not so eager on.
In the event you can determine the elements of your physique you’re the MOST assured in drawing consideration to, after which dressing to just do that, you’re all the time going to really feel good in what you put on.
Observe: once I say “draw consideration to, that doesn’t all the time imply “reveal”. My legs are one among my finest bits, however I really like a large leg pant as a lot as a brief skirt – BOTH draw consideration to that space, simply in several methods.
Understanding how garments match in your distinctive physique is without doubt 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 in the event you LOVE one thing, flog it as a lot as your can, no matter what anybody else is sporting.
3. Your Fashion Character.
That is by FAR an important of your Stlyle Foundations so far as I’m involved. Your Fashion Character is a group of phrases, that as a collective, describe your private fashion (or the place you’d prefer it to be). I get my purchasers to think about three phrases that symbolize the fashion they wish to have.
My three fashion persona phrases are FEMININE | EDGY | ELEVATED. They outline not solely every little 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, fairly 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 superb software when discovering, or re-assessing your Fashion Character. It’s an effective way to visually categorical stuff you like, and group them collectively within the boards to offer you some readability round your individual sense of fashion.
The best way to USE your Fashion Foundations successfully
Now that you’ve extra of an understanding of what your Fashion Foundations are, EVERY fashion resolution you make, going ahead, must be primarily based on these three frameworks.
Use them as filters;
Whenever you’re cleansing out your wardrobe:
- do the garments you have got match inside your color palette, are they simple to all match again collectively?
- do your garments do the perfect in your physique form, do they spotlight the nice bits, or are they there to cover issues?
- do your present garments match a minimum of ONE of your Fashion Character phrases?
Whenever 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 stuff you strive on outline your finest bits.
- Is what you’re buying a mirrored image of those phrases
Whenever you’re placing outfits collectively:
- Are you taking part in 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 might want 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 Character phrases mirrored within the look you’ve created?
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I hope that helps clarify somewhat extra about what your Fashion Foundations are and WHY they’re so helpful with regards to understanding your individual fashion.
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