'Hey FashionFriend, I’m turning 30 and having an existential style crisis'
Video: The Cut It’s only around the time of your own birthday that you start to think, Wow, is it everyone’s birthday right now? But it really does seem like it’s everyone’s birthday right now. Restrictions are lifting and people are publicly throwing big parties for themselves again. And even if it’s not your birthday, spring can feel like something of a rebirth.
“The really fun part about one’s twenties is the discovery of personal style,” says designer Norma Kamali in her memoir-slash-self-help-book. “You have the freedom to dress any way you would like at this time, so experimenting is the way to do it.” Each chapter offers advice for a different decade of your life, so I revisited it this week, and this rang true for me. Ever since I first interviewed Kamali, who is now 76, five years ago, she’s served as my sort of style guru and age idol.
As you figure out who you are, try to find designers and brands whose vision aligns with your own and whose clothes fit you well. Study them. Get to know them. Embody them. In the same way that you surround yourself with people who really get you as you get older, fill your closet with designers who really get it too. And everything else can go. For me, this means Kamali, of course, and I could afford her clothes in my 20s.