RELATiONSHiP STATUS: IT’S COMPLICATED RELATiONSHiP STATUS:
The summer before college, the pressure was on me to declare a major. I researched every possible career path. Maybe, Biology and its beakers could replace Fashion and its buttons? Or, could Political Science and its Policies outshine Fashion and its storytelling? Through this speed dating process, I was determined to enter a new and fresh relationship, breaking it o with Fashion once and for all. Maybe, Fashion was a first love and an even better partner was hiding inside the course catalog of Marist College? But my breakaway from Fashion was met with another break, this time a break from all I once knew. The pandemic. We were pushed back into our homes, and challenged to experiment in hobbies that the previous world left no time for. I devoted my quarantine to sewing, thrifting, blogging, and seeing the inspiration in everyday life. I saw my childhood love for Fashion inching back into the picture, but this time I saw Fashion in a dierent light. I grew out of the young girl clinging to a sense of acceptance and bloomed into a young woman with passions, taste, and artistic ability. I started to flirt with Fashion once again; creativity, self-expression, and art drove my rekindled romance. I experimented in style without the noise of the world around me, and the butterflies started again. I was reconnecting with my first love, but this time with boundaries. Fashion is not my personality; it reflects my personality. Fashion may make the rules, but so can I...
CURRENT RELATiONSHiP STATUS: REKiNDLiNG AN OLD ROMANCE
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