I've been at my buddy's apt all month and I've noticed some interesting people.  Most people now a days refuse to dress the way someone else looks to fashion.  I fancy myself a survivor of the "fashion know it alls"- because I followed my own heart along the way. 

As a young girl, I found myself dressing like a European even before I could get my little fingers on a womans European magazine.  You see, I grew up in the Beach community / suburbs of Southern California.    My ideas of coolness had been appreciated by my peers because they saw me as an outsider anyway...They figure, " she is a latina, she can wear those bright colors".  (And, for the record...I am Latina of mixed origins from Puerto Rican, Italian, Guatemalan, and even Spanish and Arab..), and they didn't call me Latina, they thought of me as Mexican.  Because to them, we were all the same....

Now that I got that out of the way, I couldn't help but evade my heritage...so I dyed my hair GREEN!   So what! I was a teenager and as cool and unattainable.  I followed my heart and wore whatever I damned hell pleased like...After all, my mother was a hair dresser with her own rebellious roots insisting we dress according to who we wanted to grow up and become... Alas she knew we were going through a stage...( my sister had PINK hair).  She was proud of her heritage and finally I am too...  Thank god I grew out of the PUNKER Scene...

CUT TO: Now that I am a full fledged adult, I see tons of teenagers wearing the same style...down to the Creepers!  I guess its cool again to be a PUNK!  I still am. 

As I neared my thirties, I found myself dressing more and more like my peers so I quickly realized that it was NO FUN!....Having lived bicostal for so many years, I figured out that ME- is who I FEEL LIKE BEING at that time.  Lets examine that...we dress for ourselves or for our mothers, our friends, who we want to be, who we think might find us attractive or who we want NOT to find us at all!!!! I think I am the SMARTY PANTS when it comes to fashion and designing or dressing others... But my opinion is a humbled one since we are all unique...

Hence, I am uncovering the truth about FASHIONS MOODS...we are all FASHION, baby!  Don't let others tell you otherwise...I want to have fun when I dress and sometimes I don't feel like being bothered to look at magazines because that makes it no fun at all.....Fashion week is here in NYC and thats great for our States economy, ( God only knows that we are all suffering a crisis as manufacturing and retail suffered a lot more here than anywhere in the US)...People, lets talk about what ALL YOU ARE WEARING AND WHY??  I hope to hear back from anybody that thinks this is a stupid topic and I dare you to tell me why?  Stay tuned as I uncover the ideas of the streets of fashion such as from regular gals in grocery stores as they dress for work and what they wore to bed...And the trends behind FASHION PROGRESSIVES AND deals / and steals....follow me on this journey.  I have had years of doing this for a living and I finally found the time to tell you all how I really feel...