Lauren Boyle

occupation: editor of upcoming DIS magazine

“I think that what makes our generation kind of special or new is how we appreciate the lowest, you know, trashiest stuff and the most refined things and one is not better than the other, they are all sort of on the same level. Its just up to your interpretation and your usage.” Lauren Boyle

When I asked Lauren what happens if she goes out and doesn’t feel herself on a given day, her response was, “Maybe I should try it. That could be really fun. Just go out absolutely not me at all.” So uncontrived and confident in who she is, there is no armor when exploring Lauren and her style. She is who she is, low or high end, it’s all interesting, and it makes her energy and ideas so fresh in the most explosive yet natural way. For example, she…

Marilyn Kirschner

occupation: Editor-in-Chief of the Look On-Line, freelance fashion editor, consultant, and personal shopper

“I literally embody the quote, “Once a fashion editor, always a fashion editor.” Marilyn Kirschner

Mixing everything up, high with low, sporty with couture, masculine with feminine, old with new, might seem like something new and innovative on the pages of magazines and blogs, but veteran fashion editors, like Marilyn, were the creators. She was a Senior Editor at Harper’s Bazaar for many years and has been chronicled by the first street fashion guru Bill Cunningham of the New York Times for being such an original. Marilyn is undaunted by creating the unexpected and feels that too many people are scared to make mistakes, ending up dull and forgettable. She agrees with fashion icon Diana Vreeland, that “bad taste is better than no taste”. Some of Marilyn’s…

Bradley Smith

occupation: Editor of Avant Magazine and the Production Design Coordinator of Suno

Bradley shops in the plus size section of thrifts shops and he prefers to thrift near retirement homes. When we went to film him he was staying with a friend and his clothes were in a pile on the floor. Bradley spun like magic from the mass of the best of “old lady” a display of cheap and chic extraordinaire. From the scarf as spat, to the “gramps” baggy pants pulled up over the knee as jodphur, he is anything but derivative. Bradley comes from Missouri where his peers felt that Abercrombie was the closest thing to originality. In an effort to find authenticity, he has become an archetype for stylish classicism that is completely rare.