Humans of Newbury Park
By
Maya Chari on April 27, 2018
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“I’ve always liked layering to make things more interesting so if I want to wear a dress, I won’t just wear the dress– I’ll wear something under it like a shirt that’s a different color to provide more dimension. I also like wearing jewelry– it tops the look off and I feel like something’s missing without it.
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“My style reflects how I’m feeling for the day and I change my style and my outfits every day. I wear a lot of flowy things because I want to feel comfortable with myself in my clothes. I could reflect that I’m more of a free spirited type of person.In this technology dominated era, I sometimes like to go back to the roots and enjoy the simple things in life– like laying outside in some grass and just admiring everything from the world around me. You could say that reflects in my style. It makes me sad that I see the hippie culture dying so I do whatever I can to embrace it and find the people like me, and usually they’re over 60.”
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“The inspiration for that outfit came from a German rapper, Cro. The parka is by Supreme, so i guess there’s like an element of hype and popularity, lots of modern culture in it. I like to mix it up a bit, with kind of different designs going on at the same time and I would consider it more risky, i suppose. It’s just personal preference for me: I like to wear fashionable clothes and I guess it comes with a level of confidence that I have.”
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“I like to blend in.”
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“I think fashion is an important way to subvert cultural norms. Creativity. As everyone says, fashion is a great way to express yourself. The development of my style is something that happened organically… as my high school years progressed I started to kind of make some decisions about who I was and developed as a person and the development of my style reflects that. I started wearing clothes that look cool, I bought a lot from thrift stores and I gradually got to the point where I feel like I have a style that is at least moderately unique to myself, and kept going from there. Yeah, Good.”
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“I love Asian style which I’ve been exposed to mainly from going to Hong Kong and Japan. The pants I wore are from the company Bathing Ape which a Japanese rapper called Nigo recently sold to a business called IT. The shirt is from Commes des Garçons which is a Japanese brand. I like to express myself through my culture’s clothing. I would say that my style is closest to a FOB (fresh off the boat) Asian person or someone living in Hong Kong. I drew on my shoes. Even though I messed up coloring them, it expresses individuality and separates the shoes from everyone else’s.”
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“My style says that I’m not afraid to be loud and I’m not afraid for people to turn heads at me because a lot of times I like to wear clothes with bright colors and I noticed most people don’t do that, so I’m kind of glad that I can find ways to use my favorite color to express myself and my individuality, and also I typically try to wear clothes that are a mixture between semi formal and informal and… skateboard fashion?”
