Changing the world one person at the time???

While at the airport, reading my absolutely over priced glamous magazine I stamble upon a sort of inspiration/information board about Miroslava Duma. The lastest it girl(or at least for me) cough my attention on the part about the creation of her blog/website. According to glamour magazine, she created it to put the russians "in the know" about fashion and culture, which to me, and you might not get it, shows a lot of solidarity... sort of.

Then I realized that I might have been doing this wrong all along.
On my first semester as a fashion student I had a fashion designe teacher that didn't bother teaching till half of the semester, when all the "non talented" students where out and she could concentrate on the "good ones". of course that bothered me a lot since I'm part of the first mentioned group. And in case you are wondering... no, I didn't make it.

Now. I realize i've been doing the same thing, using english as a way to conect with people from parts of the world where MY fashion is understood yet I complain about the lack of creativity and self expression my own country shows.
I'm not saying that I can change the world, nor the country, nor even my small town but nowi believe it's my duty to show my people that fashion isn't a frivolous hobby or stupid or a waste of time. It is my duty to show fashion is art, is healthy is expression and you don't have to look nicely blended in.

So I finally decided my posts should be bilingual because... of all the things I said before!

What I ate today

Although I've been eating healthy since about half of last year, I started really really concentrating on it since about a month ago, partially because I actually have food here at home but mostly because I saw my new years ootn pictures and even when I already lost a lit of weight I'm not happy... at all!

I've been eating really healthy,except for some rare occasions and exercising (both cardio and strength) daily and im finally starting to see some results. I gotta admit I'm still a little disappointed but I think it is realky because I finally changed my eating habits and I feel like a shouldn't be fat and It's hard for me to understand that I have only been doing this for a month when I realize I should have been eating like this all my life! The feeling of accomplishment is awesome!

So here's what I ate today. It was a good good day but you have to consider that I'm not on a diet so there are days when I eat pasta or rice or potatos or fried things but I do have much much more control over it now. I love being in control.

The scale doesn't show any difference but who really cares right?

2013 moodboard

A moodboard is like a collage with images, words, frases and different objects in a sort of composition to develope a concept. This is really helpfull to. Communicate the concept to people, a creative team or can be helpfull when it comes to framing your own work, making sure you dont move too far away from your subject.

In my opinion moodboards can be helpfull on your daily basis. You can communicated to others where are your thoughts and style are going, help you shop, pack or clean your closet. You might or might not know that I've been having a bit of a trouble accepting that my style has change so I decided to make a little moodboard to help me guide myself, shop (if possible) in the future and finally see what I'm gonna be taking back to Buenos Aires at the end of the summer.

Identity crisis

We often hear people talk about how fashion is about confidence, attitude, art, changing or re inventing ourselves but I often think fashion is so importante to us that we could hardly ever finish explaining specifically what fashion really is and its consecuences, therefore we tempt to understimate it and look at it as just clothes.

As fashion students we often get asked about this impossible to explain question, what is fashion and what moves it?, being obligated to answer in very simple ways. Of course we could all use old fashion definitions about the poor wanting to look rich and the rich trying to scape from them but we all know, now a days it comes to far more than that.

Truth is, for me fashion is about attitud and confidence and change but also about economics, gender, security, jobs, class, judgement, family, friends, etc. If I could resume it, I'll put all this little parts into two different factors that are, of course, surrounded by an atmosphere of social influences. We, humans, are made to take quick decisions based on what we see, so we judge books by their covers and we are also aware of the fact that we are being judge by our own cover. Here fashion is seating in the middle of society and us and can affect both sides as much a connect us to society, Based on that, here are my two factors.

1. The way we want the world to see us. Here we could find factors as class, economics, gender, ethnic, do I belong to certain kind of urban tribe? Do I want to look like an independent woman or as a man who likes sports? Etc.
2. The way we want to feel about ourselves. now, sometimes we need fashion to affect ourselves ans not the rest of the people around us. Here we can find factors as confidence and attituted, I can change the way I feel, do I need to feel more confident? Or more powerful on a certain day or time of my lifes.

In the end getting this too factors together leads us to the inevitable question of Who are we?. Most of us spend a big part of our adolescence changing and defining who we are but if the way we dress is given by who we are and who we are is given by society surrounding us as much as by our own life circumstances, wouldn't it be normal to contantly be radically changing the way we dress.

I came into this question when I moved to Buenos Aires, my style while I was living in Chile was hyper femenine, I wore nothing but dresses. But living in Buenos Aires I starting noticing some changes on mh style and desperately try to go back to "who I am" refusing any type of change and leaving me in a confusing area in the middle of this "sweetheart wanna be" and the "strong bitch" and I wonder, is it possible that this "real me" is just a tool that we have and as every tool, it doesnt work for every situation

Thinking about the new year

First day of the year first post of the blog. I'm back home for the entire summer so I decided I had to get back in the game, the blogging game that is. This is a  very complex outfit for me at least but a very simple post idea that led into a whole lot of thinking about the new year.

Let me just start with the outfit. Last week I went thrift shopping, I can't say it was a lucky day since the one dress that I got didn't fit me and the sweater, I don't even wanna try, but! I came across a new store that opened while I was living in Buenos Aires. Basically, this store brings out of season clothes from well known brands from, assuming, the US. The store is not as cheap as a thrift store but it isn't as expensive as buying at the mall and for someone that understands the relationship between price and "uniqueness" we can agree that 30 bucks for something you won't see anybody else wearing is a good good price. So here's where I got the red jacket with lines of both silver and gold beading lines aside from the black ones which is pretty cool because you can wear whatever color jewels you want. I wore with a simple black dress from forever 21 and black flat forms which my dad can not get use to. Red lips, semi smokey eyes, a big big suck bun that I'm still wearing after partying all night.

Well,that was the simple part of the process, the hard part is still happening is the editing and looking at myself in the pictures because if you saw pictures from when I first started blogging you'll see the difference. Of course back then I was taking prozac which made it a lot easier to loose weight and remain less fat. It was really hard for me to look at the pictures, to think about the weight that I already lost and think that despise that I still have a long long way to go, and knowing that even dieting, exercising and avoiding all the food that I wanted to eat while I was out of the country, I'm still getting, slowly, fatter. I still haven't finish the editing, it takes me a while because is quite depressing, I'm not happy with it, not happy at all.