occupation: student

“I draw inspiration not from direct sources such as “style icons” but from different eras, mentalities, and ways of life. Such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Paris’ 1920′s expatriate community, the witty tunes of Cole Porter, the chess playing scene between Faye Dunaway and Steve McQueen in the original “Thomas Crown Affair” (subtle sensuality expressed through intellectual games), romanticized views of the world, color palettes, ironic takes on tradition, Amory Blaine (‘The Young Egotist’) from Fitzgerald’s novel This Side of Paradise, Jean Honore Fragonard’s painting called The Swing.” Linsey Ballas

Style for Linsey is like living in her own book. It seems as though anything and everything, consciously and unconsciously, becomes a new sentence or paragraph in her wardrobe and then like a chameleon, her experiences continuously manifest into something unique. “A childhood heirloom on my wrist, one of my grandmother’s scarves, a shirt that I have stolen from my father’s closet….I layer the pieces of different generations.” Linsey doesn’t miss a reference if it’s worth it from her love of blazers found at boarding school, to her Jan Brady dress and of course, hard-to-find Lolita sunglasses. She creates a “dialogue” between the pieces which is not meant to be ironic, but playful. Killer for me is her classic menswear oversized blazer with the most provocative of YSL pumps and the legs that go on forever.

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If you like Linsey, you might also enjoy CC McGurr, Amanda Doman, or Sophie Conti.