College Fashionista

At the end of the semester, the all too familiar feeling of exhaustion plucks students from sanity and leaves them dangling, fighting for a few winks of sleep. If you’re ready to kiss your finals and the year goodbye, you’re not alone. During stressful stretches of the semester, many…

It's reading week. You know what that means! Stressed, crazed overachievers scouring the campus for places to study and cry. During times like these, when class notes and textbooks seem to be your only friends, it's important to dress casually and comfortably without forfeiting total…

All too often taboos whittle their ways into our daily lives and keep us from expressing ourselves freely. We all know the white lie that bars all Fashionistas from wearing white before Memorial Day or after Labor Day, but some of us choose to disregard it. I spotted this trailblazing Fashionista…

Don’t you love waking to a beautiful, clear blue sky? That’s what happened to me, and so I dressed accordingly. Flung on a bikini, stuffed an umbrella and towel into my backpack and trundled off to the beach. I’m kidding. It’s April and I live in Harlem. I did dress for what I thought was a warm…

The weekend is a glorious time; students are freed from the confines of cramped lecture chairs and lackadaisical courses and are given the gift of a brief intermission from regular responsibilities. Yet with great power, as Spiderman once said, comes great responsibility. This notion, unbeknownst…

Who doesn’t love a little cheetah? Even the fastest glimpse of the speckled fabric makes my heart beat faster, for the pattern is simply so fabulous. This Fashionista’s feline accessory is one that even PETA can love: the cotton H&M scarf is lightweight cotton (and nothing like the real furry…

The weather as of late has been dramatically warmer; the spring sun has sent cherry blossoms shooting from their buds and out into the light, breezy air. While Mother Nature paints the town with swaths of pastels, and sends magnolia leaves soaring from their branches, she instills a sense of…

This past week I traveled to the western coast of Southern Ireland. While I indefinitely encountered many more sheep than people on my spring break, I did manage to happen upon a handful of Fashionistas. I spotted this Fashionista on the lawn of a fifteenth-century castle that is now run as a…