Amy on HiStyley!
EvaLotta Freden, the photographer behind Los Angeles’ best street-style blog HiStyley, was kind enough to photograph me outside of the Gap 1969 design headquarters on Pico Boulevard earlier this month. You can check out her post about me here on HiStyley. I’m horribly self-conscious about my appearance, which is why I run a street-style blog and not a personal style blog. Like many other women I am hyper-critical of my appearance. Posting photographs of myself is very scary for me, but I am lucky to have the encouragement of other fashion blogger friends.
This fear of my own photographs is ironic because I am a champion of individuality. One of the main reasons I started my blog was to show that beauty comes in all forms not just the cookie-cutter forms dictated by the fashion advertisements and popular media. It’s one of the reasons I look for stylish outfits on people of all types and not just those on beautiful women like other street-style photographers. Perhaps self-acceptance is a message that I am promoting because I am trying to internalize it myself. Classic case of projection, as the Freudians would say.
See what happens when you major in Psychology?
*P.S. I know I already did a previous outfit post with this look, but my stylist wanted me to wear it to the Vogue presentation at the Gap 1969 design studio. This was this outfit’s first time to be worn to a special event. Plus I wanted to promote Eva and her blog HiStyley.
It might be an outfit we've seen, but I love it and is worth seeing twice.
Wonderful post, Amy. You look great and your outfit is really cute, so you needn't fret about posting pictures of yourself!
The Styleseer
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Amy, Thank you for putting Chicago on the map; its a stylish city and people should know it! I love your little anecdotes with your photographs, please keep writing them! Makes the photos so much more memorable!!