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Krystal started her blog because she didn’t want to work for anyone else – “I’m completely self-made. I hate the middle man. I don’t want to have to go through somebody else for them to say okay or not okay. If I want to put it out, I’ll put it out.” Amen, especially when the middle man has become an epidemic of pandering to the lowest common denominator. Let’s see, the cover of an unnamed fashion magazine with a super model grinning a wooden smile in clothes that she feels no affinity for, with cover lines that say “Shape up for Spring” (oy vey, haven’t we heard this before)? Or Krystal, in her newly coveted Bess studded kimono that she loves so much that she sleeps in it, and with so much to say about why we get stuck in life and how to get to the bottom of your core repetitive reactions to things, that any dose of her is like a huge injection of seratonin? It would be hard not to be chic as hell (in that ’60s/’70s rebel kind of way) when your mom was single, fiercely independent, and never lost the sense of her roots of hanging out with the Kinks and Hunter S. Thompson and attended the Monterey Pop and Altamont music festivals. I love her adoration for the Stones’ girlfriends as much as the Stones’ and it is haaaard not to mention the Marianne Faithfull and Anita Pallenberg comparisons. I don’t think you can ever get enough of those most meaningful of style idols anyway and especially when it is channeled so seamlessly through Krystal’s free spirit. There wasn’t a doubt in my mind that when I was magnetically drawn to her glowing energy at Bryant part in some perfection of high waisted pants, denim shirt, neck scarf, and her signature red lipstick (because she doesn’t wear any other makeup) that I had come across a gem. And it doesn’t get much better than digging into her immeasurable style and story and being left with the thought that “Nothing comes to you in physical reality that you didn’t first comtemplate,” or would you rather “My Three Facelifts: A Twenty-Year Nip and Tuck Diary.”
If you like Krystal, you might also enjoy Chase Cohl, Byrdie Bell, or Philippa Price.
