"But what about freedom of expression? Where is the flight of fantasy and peppercorn? " - will certainly ask the latter. Want spices? You are welcome! Let's talk about bold images.
The profession of the image consultant obliges to develop observation: while watching movies, traveling and, of course, in everyday life. Over the past few years on the streets of St. Petersburg and Moscow, I began to see more unusually dressed people. I would like to say that this is a confident and steady trend, but no. The overwhelming majority of others are still either striving to "follow the fashion", "be trend", or vice versa - prefers proven gray-black everyday versions. As a result, the human flow looks quite uniform. Only the linations of shades from the season for the season are changing: that fuchsia, then the emerald, then Bordeaux. And suddenly the look snatches someone extraordinary from the crowd. As a rule, attention first attracts colored colored, this stimulus is the easiest and strong. More - notice an interesting cut, a quote from past epochs, intricate decorations. Sometimes such characters seem to be urban crazy, they look so badly ... But why not?
I have repeatedly said that the external manifestation of the image (clothing, hairstyle, makeup, and so on) should be based on an excellent understanding of themselves, on the desire to express their essence. And if the soul asks the holiday, the profession is creative, and in the head - the whirlwind of ideas, why not turn every exit from the house in a small carnival? Of course, no one has canceled aesthetics laws: the combination of colors, a pleasant state of proportion, tidiness. Otherwise, freedom expression is something that may even learn how to learn many clad in the obligations of large cities.
Small "madness" can raise the mood if you are tired, say, from eternal office costumes and serm outside. So, wound on the neck of a scarf in a bright recreater or taking a mischievous umbrella, on the way home you can safely feel myself again by a child: buy ice cream or chocolate and, secretly from "strict yourself", eat, jump over the hand-drawn "classics" or pour a song under the nose ...
In addition to the "free artists", you can attract those who dress in retro style to bright characters. Beauty in the spirit of "New Bow" from Dior, with tight waves and in the volumetric skirts until the middle of the caviar, adherents of minimalism and color blocks of "aliens" from the 60s, languid seductive seductors from the 1920s ... And this charming fashion for "RUSSKIAN" - Romanticized à-la-russe in the spirit of the first collection of Ulyana Sergeenko: with long skirts, brazers on the head, fabrics in a small flower. Dressed "not in your era" and looks organically too difficult: you need to take yourself, your features of appearance, analyze their compatibility with aesthetics of this or another decade or century and finally allow yourself to be not like everyone else. On the standing out of the crowd, they always look intently and even with a light suspicion: "What do you look like that?" And therefore, bright images always become tested for durability: Do you know how to cope with overweight?
There is another danger from non-standard outfits: style and aesthetic mistakes in them are noticeable. And from the side. The Creator himself and the model in one person, sometimes happens only in photographs, postfactum, aware of their missions, big and small. But the skill comes with practice. Therefore, if you decide to shine brighter many - your goal, experiment! And listen first of all myself, and take replicas from the side only as opinions, and not as infallible truth.
Let the flight of your imagination be free!
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Katerina Khokhlova, Image Consultant and Life Coach