Myf explained that her parents didn’t let her have toys that were based off of pop culture, in order for her to develop her own imagination. Thus, when she spontaneously runs out to grab coffee in the creative combination of an Ohne Titel multi colored knit cardigan and a patchwork sheepskin coat tied around her waist, with only her tye dyed boys underwear underneath, it looks so good that she ends up staying in the ensemble for the rest of the day and night, while doing her usual meandering around the city. I love how she wears her roommate’s button down shirts as skirts as well and how everything gets her signature written all over it, like her tie-dyed Ksubi jeans.

Interesting conversation is what Myf most admires in another person and it is almost as if she is seamlessly conversing her expression with the world through everything she touches. This can be seen in her artwork, which mostly depicts her friends who she paints because she loves them “to death,” or the morphing of an outfit form one day to the next, deriving from things that her peers have left at her place or traded with her. Buying clothes for Myf is rare, except for the occasional Indian dress from a store where the owner, who has a crush on her, gives her a discount.

Myf gets her independent spirit from her mom who presently lives in Tazmania (Myf is from Australia), in the middle of the forest in a house that is entirely self sufficient, equipped with solar panels, water tanks, dams, a vegetable garden and fruit trees. In the tapestry of a Phillip Lim floral cowboy shirt with fringe, royal blue shorts from Where Romance Was Born, cuffs and a scarf from India and a linen duster, Myf says of her mom, “She does pretty much whatever she wants to… and I am much the same as she, just 30 years later.”

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Visit Tamu’s blog, All The Pretty Birds.

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Sofia sees dressing and fashion as a part of art and I love how she inspires others in the way that she wants to be inspired herself. Like her own mix of vintage, indigenous and inherited clothes, she is drawn to things when they tell a story about the past and help her to understand something she didn’t understand before. Or in her words, how closely connected material objects are to what a culture or people are saying on a deeper level. As an example, her desire to never wear jeans and to always wear her mother’s decorative medallion stone necklaces, can be as illuminating as how the Swedish avant-garde was created as a reaction to its heavily folkloric traditions (which was the subject of one of Sofia’s exhibitions). Martin Margiela is another great inspiration to her for the spider web of thoughts in his collections, Sofia states. It took her two weeks to understand what he stands for when Sofia was working on a retrospective on him at The Mode Museum in Antwerp.

In order to be a good curator of how a culture adorns itself, Sofia travels to and studies many different countries– it’s like social anthropology, she says. She is possessed by how, through her exhibits, she can highlight the juxtapositions in society and understand the collective thinking and soul of a society. What Sofia loves about fashion is the way in which someone can visually awaken her by dressing the body in an experimental way, or how one can create surprising themes, shapes, crafts, patterns, cuts, colours or techniques that help her to understand something that she didn’t understand before. In her antique Chinese silk pastel robe over a floral pastel dress, with a leopard shawl from Africa, artistry and vision is what Sofia brings to the all to homogeneity of today’s fashion world.

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Extraordinarily real and low key like her dad, Malia is makeup free and unfussy in Rosebowl vintage finds. Her earthiness (and some of her clothes, like her amber necklace and orange bustier Alaia dress,) also comes from her mom who she describes as a Brazilian “Amazonian goddess.” Having grown up on the beaches of South America and with a dad who painted everything from the washer & dryer to his cadillac in which he picked her up from school, her parents built a world around her that is dedicated to elevating the mundane and infusing the magical. Fruit loop boxes hang on Kenny’s walls (better than cluttering the counters with junk), he swings from a trapeze and covets his 70′s new wave sharkskin suits that came out of garbage cans (like all good things did in those days, he states.) The artist whose art was initially inspired by MC Escher and the psychedelic posters of head shops in the 70′s, is interested in everyone’s story and feels everyone deserves respect, whether it be a janitor or the president. And Malia, who seems refreshingly unaffected by trends in her favorite Lucien Pellat Finet comic-inspired sweater and Moschino tiger knit leggings, feels that the open mindedness of her family has created her to be very accepting and fearless when it comes to people’s differences.

One of Kenny’s first memorable experiences with Keith Haring was when the latter artist painted himself into the corner of a room to the beat of the Devo song he was listening to. Keith, Kenny said, “was one of the most important people in my life.” We ended our shoot in Kenny’s other worldy-hyper trippy, colorful basement of a 3D art explosion with father and daughter dancing in day glo, Kenny in a full on neon painted suit and Malia in a Keith Haring tee shirt that he had given her. Malia knows little else but a world of beautiful things with every surface covered by her dad’s hand as a result of his obsession with the idea, why should any experience be mindless?

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Unique is what you have to be to break in the music business today, as “it is no longer this kid is good and get him dressed by a stylist… You have to wake up in the morning and have your own agenda,” Theophilus says. He stops at nothing when it comes to sartorial details– he is a designer as much as a musical artist and alters everything to his exact fit and refined liking, even admitting that as a kid, he would take his pair of Jordan’s over a million dollars. An example of his keen eye for detail can be seen in Theophilus’ custom navy blazer that has gold buttons going up the sleeve, green felt under the collar and touches of royal patches from English flea markets on the pocket. He complements the jacket with DIY Ksubi’s, that have crocodile on the back pocket and monogrammed velvet slipper that he designed.

On the shoot, we got a hint of Theophilus’ taste for the finer things in life, like one of his latest songs that includes a sample from the seminal “Dance Hall Days,” as well as his Prada suede argyle jacket that he wears with handmade camo leather pants. However, despite his success, Theophilus clearly remembers his days of couch surfing and making his first record on 12 dollars a day eating wings and fries. I am inspired to pray for money to fall from the sky like Theophilus does, but his overriding desire to make music that will stick with his generation is his true source of wealth, studded Louboutins and all.

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Video edited by John Mattia.

Transporting herself through the romance of tradition is what captivates Tarajia. She gets dressed up at her vanity to go out at night (even if just a date with her boyfriend) and warms plates in the oven for a dinner party, like her mother did. You can see the thread of classicism in everything Tarajia wears and does, from the quintessential Chanel blazer that she wears with the perfect vintage YSL satin shoes with bows, to her obsession with cooking, turbans, old china, fish from the fish market (not the grocery store) and her layers of heirloom rings. She doesn’t get rid of anything, because everything old becomes new again, she feels, so Tarajia remains relevant in a Giorgio di Sant’Angelo knit dress from the 70′s worn with Margiela boots. Like food, Tarajia believes that clothes are emotional and the common denominator between everyone.

Check out Tarajia’s blog, The Lovage.

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They are not only each other’s muses in their dedication to escaping sexual stereotypes, but as inspiration for their respective business’. Dynasty, with her finesse at mixing an animal print head wrap with a camouflage jacket and yellow printed hoodie, is a clothing designer, who designs with her sister’s more graceful, rich and effortless layering in mind. Her modern take on a unisex cargo pant is just the right combo of slim and baggy and is filled with concealed details, as exemplified by the multiple pockets in all the right places. Soul, with her classic button up to the neck, vintage vest with a Victorian watch fob, bloomers, luxe tassel belts and floral tights, is a metal smith who explores the significance of ancient geometry in her jewelry with her sister’s attraction to the oneness between masculine and feminine in mind. I love Soul’s square and triangular bangles and the strong, simple, gender-neutral feel of her rings.

Dynasty & Soul’s mom, Josephine, taught them to dress, and thus live, with a sense of freedom and individuality. As a result, they are handsome as they are beautiful and “not the book that you would assume to know about when you pick it up to read it,” as Dynasty says.

Find Dynasty & Soul’s designs here: BRZE SIGHT & ALKHEMI9.

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When I came to shoot this feature on Sara, I knew that I would be overwhelmed (in the best way) by her passion for dressing, but I didn’t expect there to be as much as I found. Sara’s affection for all things Native American goes way beyond her seminal squash blossom necklace that she paid for on lay away in 8th grade. A white leather coyote bag with feathers that she made hangs in her closet, while white fringe Isabel Marant boots are on her “must get” list. In fact, boots play a close second to jewels for Sara in order of obsession. Haider Ackermann over-the-knee ones are drop dead sexy with a floral dress and Gaultier ankle booties, that she cleverly wears with American Apparel athletic socks, giving a tough feel to a Vivienne Westwood halter dress and bloomers. While rock and roll lives on in a big way with Sarah in her American flag leather pants and a Rick Owens fitted jean jacket that makes all others pale in comparison.

But the utimate inspiration for me about Sara is her “I don’t give an fuck” attitude in general that reflects not only in her style, but in her willingness to be out of the box in her self-expression, even if it means flying under the radar when she is more talented than most. Nothing can get in the way of her attention to detail, for her, art means more to her than commercial success. Sara will alter something until it’s right or she will make something if she can’t find anything as great, like her Victorian silk bloomers. I envy both her blunt honesty when she says, “I just like to make shit” and her unsual humility when she pulls out this spectacular, embroidered coat that she made while on vacation. Creative purists like Sara fascinate me, I am attracted to them like a magnet because of the part of me that isn’t one.

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In fact, William is effusively at ease not living up to the expectations that popular culture puts on him and his profession. This can be seen in everything from his warmth and refeshing honesty about how his prayers are getting less wordy, the joy he expresses in shopping on Portobello road, how a marigold sock looks with a trucker boot, and the disappointment with every outfit since the perfection of his cinnamon colored knickerbockers, yellow stockings and cable knit jumper of middle school. What really matters is what William feels Jesus Christ was really about, he points out. “He was a disruptive trouble maker with a dry wit who questioned authority and came to show that those who are poor and dispossessed are precious in God’s eyes and they should be precious in our eyes as well… And not to walk past them,” no matter their dress or circumstance.

With his flaming curly red hair, cut in his own version of a faux hawk, attraction to Victorian vintage and colors that don’t necessarily go together, it is not a surprise that William is a square peg in a round hole in terms of fitting into the holy bubble of the church and organized religion. As a result, he has chosen to spread his faith by being in the real world and not confined to a building. “You have faith, but how can these awful things happen all the time, isn’t that the ultimate conflict of it all?,” Williams seeks to address. Presently he is the Chaplain of The University of the Arts, where people have challenged the notion that artists would need assistance with their spiritual lives. To the contrary, William is passionate about artists as the world’s healers.”The creative process,” he states, “involves an element of deep exploration and a little suffering and pain along the way, like giving birth, bringing life and creativity into the world.” His hope is to show the students, that through their power of creation they can change the world, and mine is to give a voice to those as inspiring as William, for their ability to stand as alone in their garb as they do in their daily lives.

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