There is something I want to say before I tell you what this is.
I've worked with color and style for a long time. I'm good at it. And I want to be honest about something I haven't said out loud enough.
So much of style advice, even good style advice, is a guess.
Dress for the job. Follow the season. Here's what's flattering. Here's what's “in.” Here's the capsule wardrobe everyone supposedly needs.
All of it asks us to translate ourselves into someone else's language and hope it fits.
I watched person after person follow that advice and still stand in front of the mirror feeling slightly off. Not wrong, exactly. Just not them.
And what I kept seeing, long before I could fully name it, was that the people in front of me didn't need to be fixed or kept on trend.
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They needed to be seen.
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The exact colors that were already theirs.
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The presence that was already true.









