embrace.the.crazy

Yesterday's post about Jenna Lyons really got me thinking about how lucky I am to have a creative job that allows me to never feel like I'm missing out on any of the things I love. Although fashion isn't part of my job, a lot of jobs today don't allow the kind of creative sartorial expression that I have. My office doesn't really have a dress code (other than "make sure you're appropriately covered"), and that allows me to have nothing off-limits - enter bright red pants. If these can't put a spring in your step, well, then nothing probably can. I didn't spend big money on these, as I usually try not to on super trendy things, although I have to admit that the thought of these going "out of style" makes me awfully sad!

Fashion isn't always friendly to those who have a sartorial responsibility. New York magazine says this about designer-of-the-moment Alexander Wang's aesthetic and secret to success:

"He’s built an approximately $25 million business on cool but benign day-into-night clothes for lithe, pragmatic downtown girls who all appear to work in galleries or PR or in fashion somehow themselves—anything vaguely “creative.” Wang synthesized the street-style-blog-derived notion of looking like a “model off duty,” a louche fantasy of effortlessly sexy living if ever there was one. After all, what exactly does a model do when she’s off duty? The Wang girl is, therefore, always ready to go out, dance with careful abandon, drink in hand, accessorized with a cigarette and a handsomely scruffy boy, swaying her hair around, pushing it behind her ears."

Now the last of that description certainly doesn't fit me - but "girls who appear to work in galleries or PR or in fashion somehow themselves - anything vaguely 'creative,'" is apparently a group that many woman would like to be a part of, because it's selling Mr. Wang's fur pom-pom accented heels & slouchy cutout sweaters like crazy.

Not that all woman can't toss a little personality into their work wardrobes. All I'm saying is to embrace the crazy you're allowed.

Life's too short to make your message "I wasn't inspired to wear anything fun today."