Gloria Schito alias @glojoined reveals all the tricks to define your own style in her book: You start making fashion, a manual to discover the pleasure of feeling good and fashionable without homologating, without taking oneself too seriously and without losing sight of the budget.
1- When did you discover your passion for fashion?
Since I was a child I have always had an eye for the fashion world. I loved making clothes for mine Barbie or improvise funny parades at home. My dream was to become a fashion designer in fact I had a small diary in which I “designed” clothes for my future brand. Surely this passion of mine was also thanks to my mother, who is also a super lover of the fashion world and my first inspiring muse.
2- Is it possible to dress well by spending little?
Everything starts from the awareness of ourselves. When we manage to identify what values us, what we like and what makes us feel comfortable, the style, the beautiful outfits and everything else comes easy and by itself. This also happens if you want to follow the latest trends: if you are already aware of your tastes a priori, you will certainly not spend too much money to follow them all but you will select those that we are sure we can fit or like. So yes, you can dress well and stylish too 🙂
3- What do you recommend to a person who wants to learn to enhance themselves through their looks?
Get to know, appreciate and study. Style, in my opinion, is something that must come from a deep knowledge of us. It is more a psychological work to learn to appreciate ourselves, with our strengths and weaknesses, without forcing ourselves to wear that dress that everyone uses just because it is fashionable. If you have a strong self-love, we are the first to make fashion and dictate our rules.
Anyway some practical advice:
-recognize your body shape
-select the colors you like
– find those must-haves that must never be missing and that you know for sure can save your every look when you don’t have the faintest idea of what to wear etc … all the others are in my book 🙂
4- Who is your style icon?
I have analyzed my style icons and deepened them all in my new book You start making fashion, in which I tell how each of them has influenced and helped me to find my own style and how it can help you do it too. I’ll spoil two of them: Lady Gaga for his ability to dare and Kendall Jenner for its simple but flawless looks.
5- If you had to choose 3 items that you could not do without present in your wardrobe which ones
would they be?
Colored Blazers, Palazzo Jeans and Converse. These three paired with a t-shirt have already created a look that I would wear every day. It can also be used in the evening by exchanging sneakers for a pair of heels!
6- When and why did it occur to you to write this book?
You start making fashion is my first style guide written with By Agostini. I have always told everything on social media, every fashion advice, my every discovery or skill learned in the fashion field but I felt that there was much more that was not being said. Hence the need to have to write a colorful, fictional, easy to read and also interactive style guide that could help all women to find their own unique and defined style, learn about many new tips and advice, fruit of my experience but above all to learn to shop in a targeted way. In this guide I wanted to explain how style does not depend exclusively on the clothes we buy but that it is something that is built over time and reflects our personality and creativity. I told about the great icons of fashion who over the years have made us dream. I chose eight, which have a special meaning for me and embody a particular style: I told what they taught me and how we can be inspired by them to define our style, regardless of the trends that change from season to season. Because you can be as fashionable as the latest generation supermodels even without spending a fortune or indulging in frantic shopping.
7- Can you give us 3 tips for smart shopping?
First of all, setting a budget is essential because it allows us to make careful choices without spending too much and sometimes unnecessarily. When you are about to buy a garment, always ask yourself: “Are there at least 3 garments with which I can match it?” And finally, avoid falling into the marketing traps of “Get 3, the cheapest you pay at 30%” … these are tricks that push us to buy useless things and accumulate them. In my book I dedicated a paragraph to the most common marketing techniques, how to recognize them and above all how to understand when they are scams 🙂
8- Where do you get inspiration for your looks from?
Mainly from social media and my fashion magazines both online and in print. I also use the Pinterest social network a lot, which allows you to create your own mood boards to organize the outfits we like best 🙂
9- What is your secret dream?
My dream is to become an entrepreneur and create my own company. Evolving in this direction is one of my greatest ambitions.
10- How did you feel when you found out that they would publish your book?
When I received the proposal from my publishing house I screamed with joy, I literally lost my voice. It was one of the biggest occasions for me and I can only be grateful to By Agostini for believing in me and in my project from the beginning !!!
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