The second part = The reading matter: part 2 – Save and sustain
My information diet is almost as lean as my closet: I have unfollowed everybody except my mother, my partner and some pages on Facebook, I don’t read press, I don’t use Twitter as a source of reading matter… I watch a Spanish late-night comedy show to keep up with the local news, Stephen Colbert to keep up with the American news and have my feeds to keep me warm. C did a search for a new RSS feed organizer when Google killed it’s Reader and found Feedly. It’s not perfect (very few things are, ugh), but does its job of bringing my news to me instead of me having to go after them. I really don’t get the ‘check my latest post’ logic on Instagram – if I like your content, I already have it in my reader, thank you very much!
So I’ll show you my reading lists… only the fashion and sustainability related folders, though, if you want recommendations for recipe blogs, illustrated sex toy reviews or my favorite academic journals, just ask. Keep in mind that while I might be critical (see the ‘nothing’s perfect’ note above), this is the content I enjoy.
Folder 1 – Art + inspo:
These are the pretty picture blogs that don’t care about sustainability or minimalism.
Also, a lot of illustration.
A Clothes Horse: breathtaking photography, orange hair, great style. I think I re-pin Rebecca’s photos the most. While she is neither into sustainability nor minimalism and a lot of content is sponsored, this is real style inspo for me.
A Curious Fancy: Indian, plus size, into all things cute. Think lace tights, thoughtful accessorizing, and very nice photography + an occasional essay on bodies, like this one.
A Robot Heart: Polish, sews some garments, occasional post-soviet anthropological references. Lately a lot of sponsored content, but time by time a styling gem like this session appears there.
African Prints in Fashion: I really tried to find some African fashion blogs with an aesthetic that resonated with me after I came back from Cape Town in late 2017 (oh, the amount of ’10 African fashion bloggers that are slaying it’ articles with broken links that I went through). This is one of the few satisfactory ones I found.
All You Need is a Wall: illustrations by Alexandra Dvornikova. If Clarissa Pinkola Estés would have been born Russian and more recently, this is what she’d be doing.
Edits All the Way: the classiest moodboards on Tumblr.
Cupcake’s Clothes (defunct): I’m so sad Georgina stopped curating her blog! It was the perfect over-the-top sweet plus size hybrid. And when C thought that the cat ear headband was too much, I threatened him with getting one of Georgina’s antler creations from her Etsy shop.
Gemma Correll’s illustrations on her Blogspot, Tumblr and Facebook page. She is great, dedicated to feminism, introverts and animals, so I find her merch so hard to resist.
Annya Marttinen’s Tumblr – her work is a lighter, more childish version of Dvornikova’s ‘she lives in a dark forest and runs with the wolves‘ vibe.
Taryn Knight’s work: What can I do, I love me some nice drawings… and hers are excellent.
Johanna Öst’s art and occasional dark pin-up outfit – Oh, when people live their art!
Kate Tokley’s blog: I came across this via #FashRev, I think. She crochets, she deals with anxiety, tries out capsule wardrobes. It resonates, I don’t know why.
Pauline aka Punziella who went viral with her casual Disney princesses. So much talent, so cute!
Madison Ross: again, a lot of wild women art I find hard not to buy.
Martha Anne illustrations. Defined borders, clear colors, female characters, and food! What’s not to love?
Miss Pandora: Oh, Louise! Elaborated editorials, background in art history and all that in French only. Rarely truly my aesthetic (too much heels and make-up to start with), but so undeniably cool.
Nancy Zhang: or when fashion blog meets illustration. Move over, Garance, this is the real deal!
Olga Valeska: Her photos, paintings, collages, etc. etc. are so stunning I don’t even care for her religiosity, and that’s rare! Truly breathtaking and makes my 19th century Russian-aesthetics-loving heart rejoice.
Pagnifik: another source of ‘wax hollandais‘ magic.
Serina Kitazono’s illustrations.
Zuzana Èupová’s aka Suwi’s illustrations.
Third local: a Ugandan now in France, urban, mostly pants and very cool. And a side of beautiful photography to go with it.
And just for fun in the same folder also Pusheen and Heart & Brain live.
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What are your favorite feeds for pretty pictures? Whom am I missing in my list? Suggestions more than welcome.
Hey!
Well, this comment doens’t really fit in this post, but anyway, I just wanted to tell you how happy am I to have found your blog, and to have adopted the spreadshet sistem of yours since 1st January in combination with my already existing capsule wardrobe! Oh my, what i’m learning about what I use, what not, what I enjoy wearing…and so on.
Before I used to have an evaluation sistem after every capsule season, in which I decided if I had used the item; lots, sometimes, or not at all… but somehow I tried to trick myself into that had somewhen wore some stuff to fit it in the “sometimes” category even the reality was that I used this thing once. Now, there is no way to cheat mysealf! And, that’s great! Even though it’s been only less than 1.5 Months I feel that I learned a lot, and specially, I enjoy the process of tracking everything.
I also want to thank you for being the only one blogger (that I’ve found till now) that promotes really a sustainable style, whose style of creating a capsule doesn’t involve throwing away all your cheap fast fashions to substitute then for a few cashmere basic tops. Im tired of the green-washing of the capsule wardrobe method which ends up beeing a neo capitalism which makes us want throw our clothes to want more stuff. Instead, you do swap, repair, reuse, and thats great!
Thanks again for your inspiration, i’ll keep on visiting your blog 🙂
M.
Hi, M! Thank you so much for your comment and admitting that I’m not the only one gaining a great lot of pleasure in wardrobe tracking, it made my Saturday! Now I should go make some content for you.