CLOSETS

Yara Flinn

designer

"It's nice to wear clothes that draw attention but if they say more about you than you are saying ab ...

Elisa Lempicka

creative director

"I was craving to take care of somebody other than me... I think especially in the city, it’s all ...

Rajive Sada Anand

artist, teacher

"People have a skewed interpretation of authority. I think that authority comes from within, and not ...

Brian Newman

musician

"You can't lie on stage. You have to go for 'you.' If it's you, and people know that it's you, and i ...

Jimmy Webb

buyer and manager of Trash and Vaudeville

"You know what style is? Truth and energy. Iggy's the most stylish person in the world, and he's nak ...

Kaelen Haworth

designer

"When I wear something I like to make it count. I don’t wear tons of statement pieces but if I wea ...

Erin Bazos

graphic designer

"[In Italy] people care about dressing much more. It's not a vanity thing-- it's almost a matter of ...

Chris Benz

designer

“You have to be prepared to fall on the sword, and just go for it. I feel like if you go halfway w ...

Liliane Montevecchi

actress, dancer, singer

"The other day, I was in a restaurant and a woman came to me and said, 'I’m sorry to disturb you, ...

Jeffrey Costello & Robert Tagliapietra

fashion designers

"We love Jean Muir and Geoffrey Beene, people who respected the arts. For us it harkens back to our ...

Selima and Zoe Salaun

designer and CEO of Selima Optique, optometrist, student

"New York is all about being free and being yourself, and [my mother] has always been that. So I've ...

Waris Singh Ahluwalia

jewelry designer, actor

“I’m connected to the things that I buy, my commerce. Maybe I’m living in an optimistic world, ...

Jean Lebrun

artist, event curator, designer

"Everyone has their own lane. You have to be you. Your mother and father created you, and there's on ...

Heidi Lee

hat designer, stylist

"I feel like whatever you decide to wear for the day, is like your armor, your uniform that helps yo ...

Gabriel Friedman

musician

"I don’t find it necessary to have my roots down too strongly in any one place... I don't feel I n ...

Joshua Katcher

designer, video producer, ethical fashion and lifestyle expert

"Why are we searching the far reaches of the universe for other intelligent life when there’s othe ...

Leandra Medine

freelance writer, founder of The Man Repeller

"Part of the appeal of a blog is that you're taking fashion advice and listening to the opinion of a ...

Elijah Pryor

dancer, writer, singer

"I would say that I have a strong feminine side because of the fact that I’m brave. I would say th ...

Hannah & Landon Metz

lingerie designer, store owner, artist

"We were enemies as teenagers. Then I evolved into punk, emo, rockabilly and hardcore. We grew into ...

Eric Asbury

stylist

"I think that the beauty in styling yourself is narrowing it down and restraining yourself so that o ...

Larkin Grimm

singer, songwriter, artist

"Personal style is an externalization of the soul." Larkin Grimm ...

Kristin Gallegos

makeup artist

"Take my bangs away and I feel naked." Kristin Gallegos ...

Bernd Naber

Fine Artist

"Messing up is a given, you just have to be humble about it. A piece develops out of itself. You hav ...

Nina Freudenberger

interior designer

"Looking back on the times with my family in Munich... It was always me looking around, being a litt ...

Mateo Bijoux

jewelry designer

"I have no idea how I ended up in fashion... It was my mom who asked me, when I was five, 'how do I ...

Louise Ingalls Sturges

artist

"Fashion is the most common art form. Every single person wakes up and makes a decision about how th ...

Elinei Herrmann

fashion, costume and graphic designer

“Personally, I don’t feel comfortable exposing myself too much, and I think that’s fine. If an ...

Adam Erick Wallace & Karolina Babczynska

artist, model, actress, yoga instructor

"[Modeling] has given me a world perspective. Getting to meet people from everywhere breaks any prec ...

Valerie Geffner

singer, actor, creator, writer, artist

"I love my relationship with clothing. It's so much more than what you put on. For me, I've always b ...

Justin Dean Thomas

singer, songwriter, poet, actor, DJ

“No matter what is happening, no matter what I’ve lost in life, no matter who I’ve lost, there ...