Ariel Adkins
“Some artists that have really influenced my style are Yinka Shonibare, Egon Schiele, Henri Matisse, Kay Hassan, Cindy Sherman, and Nick Cave (an artist who focuses on, “the sound and the effects that a costume elucidates when it’s being worn”). When in need of inspiration, I usually turn to an art book before a fashion magazine, because there are so many ways to interpret art via clothing, and I am able to combine the two things that I love!” Ariel Adkins
occupation: student, blogger and artist
Anyone that has cried over a pair of Marni shoes that were found on the last day of the Barney’s warehouse sale, for 90 percent off, in your size, that were jammed under the shelf, is a member of my tribe. We see completely eye to eye…
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Yvan Rodic
“I just want to use the universal language of photography, to show the reality of places. I mean how amazing it is for people living in LA…to see cool kids in Moscow… it breaks so many cliches. And that is for me, my drive.. the most surprising element.” Yvan Rodic
occupation: blogger, photographer, world traveler
What happens when a kid is from Switzerland, where the only fashion that exists is “modest and low key” and it’s unacceptable to be cool, whose passions are archeology, traveling and photography? A state of the art blog is born (one of my favorites) called Face Hunter, which holds me like glue, in much the same way that National Geographic does, especially the portraits, or even a Vermeer painting. Yvan’s subjects are found in every nook and cranny of the world and his pictures are slices of…
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Kimme Aaberg
“Even though it’s where I’ve spent the majority of my life, I’m still endlessly inspired by Los Angeles. I think it’s the perfect place with amazing contrasts – lavender jacaranda trees and trashy lingerie.” Kimme Aaberg
occupation: designer, blogger, and stylist
“If you are not your own muse, who is?” kind of says it all for me. It’s one thing to admire people, like the way Kimme is inspired by Evelyn Nesbit, the first “it” girl (she takes my breath away too), but it’s another to give it all up to someone else and not feel that you have it within yourself to touch others with your own expression. Kimme lets it rip with her interpretations of the world – everything from dresses that are “’30s and ’40s through the eyes of the ’70s” to her love for the romantic, like
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Noma Han
“During Fashion Week, I walked in eight shows. They have a lot of flash – bam, bam, bam! When I walk on the runway, they all take pictures of me and I pose. I hear the sound, and it makes me so happy.” Noma Han
occupation: model
South Korea, where he grew up and “things are quiet,” was definitely not going to be a good fit for someone like Noma, who can barely contain his enthusiasm for everything. To call him passionate is an understatement, but he is, in the lightest and no less meaningful sense of the word. Noma came to New York on his own, barely speaking the language, and among many successes, is presently in the Benetton Ad Campaigns. He inhales the “bright lights” of the big cities, of which he has a lot of exposure of due to his modeling career, but humor with it…
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Piera Gelardi
“What inspired me about Amy Arbus’s No Place Like Home was the fact that, like StyleLikeU, there are so many different people in the world who express themselves in completely different ways, in the way that they dress and the kinds of homes that they have.” Piera Gelardi
occupation: creative director for Refinery29
Piera is attracted to talismen, or powerful objects that embody good energy, like her early twentieth-century vintage purse that she says is her metal kidney, and her Giles tassel necklace. But to me, they are emblems of the powerhouse that Piera is. I now know what it takes to launch one’s own business, and I am in awe of Piera’s entrepreneurial spirit and foresight in starting Refinery29 at a time “when very little else on the internet occupied that type of space.” She “dared to jump,”…
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