College Fashionista

This week a chill and dreary rain has swept across the GSU campus. There are few things that could be more uninvited during these last few days on top of exams. For most of us, just getting out of bed and putting on jeans is a struggle.

Just as I was about to give up for the day I got a glimpse…

As a child of hippie parents, we grew up without a TV. If you’re thinking yoga on Sundays, reading poetry in the garden and growing your own food you’re exactly on point. In order to keep my sister and I from feeling left out we were still able to read the “Disney” stories… the Hans Christian…

In the early 1900s the Industrial Revolution hit, making mass-produced machine made fabrics a reality. Expensive cloth like silk and velvet became more accessible, but not without hurting the quality. Thin machine-made silks were soaked in mineral salts to make them heavier like their more…

In the 1850s women wore dresses with large sleeves and full skirts to accentuate their waists. Decades and trends have come and gone since, but a narrow waist is never a bad thing. Fortunately women’s wear has progressed and we now have an arsenal of ways to fake it and flaunt it that don’t…

Many of my favorite fashion trends are things that horrified me in middle school: black and brown together, short boots and denim on denim. I’ll admit, when this trend began to flourish I was a skeptic. It's true, back in my days as an Abercrombie-clad middle school kid, the heavy faded out jeans…

Coco Chanel bestowed the gift of simple elegance to fashion. She said, “fashion fades, only style remains the same.” The avant-garde over done styles that walk the halls of school like a runway these days always come and go. The basic foundation pieces in every loyal Fashionista’s closet have,…

After a winter full of spring temperatures and shorts, Atlanta has just decided to get cold. Dreary weather should be an excuse to stay home all day and watch movies and drink hot cocoa. Unfortunately the homework isn’t stopping, Fashionistas don’t despair, there is a way to stay stylish in these…

In the '80s America had Madonna, then the '90s gave us Britney and now in the twenty-first century there's Lady Gaga. There is one common thread between these all-American girls: they know how to do a throwback to the innocent school girl look.

Madonna has forever been the essence of bad girl…