my style mantra

there's this new fashion designer who has really been catching my eye. she's been on all of these "top emerging designers to watch" "new faces of fashion" "you will never hear from 9/10ths of these people again" lists over the past few months. her name is wayne lee - her line is called Wayne. she sells her dresses at barneys for $500 bucks but they are seriously amazingly cute cuts and patterns and the colors are pretty top notch. i mean, if they were on sale i might drop quite a bit for them.. not $500 but still quite a bit. the weird thing is that i can hardly find her anywhere on the internet! i mean, she's on the barneys website where her clothes are being modeled by the butchiest most unflattering mannequins ever created* (and they only have like 4 dresses, only one of which i've seen in the magz. the dresses in the magz are so much better than the ones at the store website) but that's really it. it's like that time me and my brother were googling the knack song lyrics and couldn't find any other lyrics to any other songs other than "my sharona." i mean, come on! that's crazy. the other songs are so good! it blew our minds how we found a blackhole in the vast world of knowledge that is the internet and unfortunately it looks like wayne lee is also floating around that blackhole.

anyway, Wayne is mentioned in the new Nylon with Lilo on the cover. ok, how bad does lindsay look in the pics?!! nice mesh tank top you fucking loser! anyway, in the little blurb wayne lee describes her clothes as "for the girl who likes to dress EFFORTLESSLY and ELEGANTLY at the same time."

and i was like... . . woah that's me! or at least that's what i want to be! i think i just found my style mantra! you see, my dream style is looking like the pimpest girl on the block but not looking like i give two shits. effortlessly elegant!! i mean, obvs not elegantly like ballroom gowns but you know that should go without saying.

it feels awesome to have those two words now to sum me up in a weird way. like it will make shopping easier and more clear cut or something. ohh i like this shirt! is it effortless? is it elegant? PUT IT ON CHARGE. nice pillows! it really has an effortlessly elegant look to them no? LETS GET EM! it also seems so obvious. like OF COURSE i want to look nice and put together and kind of flashy (elegant) and of course my beauty regimen consists of me just rolling out of bed (effortless) but somehow putting the two words together has given me so much like UMPPH!

*and here's proof of butchiest most unflattering mannequins ever created. the dresses don't look good here. i swear, on live models they are to die for:



anyway, if you had to sum up your style, or ideal style, in a few catch words ala a style mantra, what would it be?