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I love hearing people write rude comments in the Ashley Olsen TFS thread about how she's dressing too old for her age. Those comments are like catnip for me. I love how Ashley Olsen dresses (understatement, I idolise it). I love dressing more than ten years older than my age, I love the idea of aging gracefully, I love the idea of sensible clothes, quietly elegant in their unfussiness and simplicity. That's why I love these street style looks from London and New York - Sarah Harris and Virginia Smith, two of my absolute favourite mag girls, the former for her long grey hair and the latter for that one line in The September Issue, when Anna fixes her with a withering stare in regards to that lovely accessories shoot with Daria Werbowy, "I think it's pretty" - of women who are so supremely comfortable in their skin that they wear their hair naturally grey, they run bare-faced to a fashion show with just a celine pouch for comfort, and they team a cashmere turtleneck with a fur coat and jeans. I love looks that come together with little thought at all - the clothes pulled from the drying rack and slipped into, the shoes grabbed by the laces as you run out the door. In my experience, it is those outfits that look the best. And that confidence and understanding of your personal style can only come with age.
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6 comments:
beautiful words - and this is what i always crave, that look that appears to just have been seamlessly slipped into, but i always over think and my floor ends up a mess and i end up all flustered & dressing becomes such a fuss! i can only hope i learn with age :) *soph
Couldn't have said it any better Hannah-rose xxx
Hey,
Did you do a paris guide at all? going next week and would love some tips please! xx
Little Girl Lost - thank you :) I love style that belies confidence and comfort and a sense of self-understanding.
Drea - thank yoU!
Lisa Tuck - Send me an email hryee1@hotmail.com I've got a long list I always send to people and I can send it to you :)) soooo jealous I wish I was back!
xxx
I think you nailed it. Confidence that comes with age is everything when it comes to style. Oh and Virginia Smith is such a complete sweetheart. Her and MMB are two of my favorites.
Thank you for writing this. I felt that for most part, the outfits along with hair and make at LFW was so contrived, now that I was privileged enough to participate in it in person. I liked the vibrancy and excitement but felt disturbed at the same time. I met women like the two that you have mentioned who wore little or no make and utterly comfortable in their own skin. I wish that these women are featured more. The word understated is becoming like a lost art around the FW circus.
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