Are there a few people in your life that you know or are known by many that have influenced your style? That cool girl at school who showed up wearing her sweat pants with her cowboy boots because she saw it on the cover of Seventeen? Or was it that actress who was always dressed in white that made you want to throw out all your color and pattern (i.e. the great Olivia Pope)? Whoever it was, let me say now, they better move over for Michelle Braverman.
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| michelle (on the left) modeling for one of the anthro fashion shows |
I met Michelle when I was applying to Anthropologie and she was my first interviewer. I'll never forget the pants she had on either. Peach lace cropped pants with flats, styled just like Laura Petrie from "The Dick Van Dyke Show." I knew right then, I had to work there and get to know her.
Starting her career as an Art Director in New York City working for CBS, Michelle lived in Brooklyn. Although school prepared her to be an Art Director, she says it didn't quite tell her how to be an Art Director. Working for magazines such as Glamour and Women's Day, she learned all the parts of putting a magazine together (before computers, when it was laid-out by hand). She had the artistic freedom to not only plan articles & create sets, but to try out ideas of her own for articles. This is what makes her blog discernible from others.
Living now in Houston, she writes one of the most clever and historically correct fashion blogs on the web, at least on my web, known as AllWays in Fashion. Rather than displaying mood boards of fashion items you should buy now that you can pin to your Pinterest board later, she focuses on the literary discussion of fashion, where she might see a trend and help you figure out what to wear with it or highlight the designers someone like Michelle Obama has worn after she wears her first Oscar (as in de la Renta). A review of a new book or play about fashion might be the subject, or it could be about a current death in the fashion world and an ode to their work. Even if you don't like fashion (and I will be frank and tell you that's a pity), you would like her clever writing.....
I know reality TV is as real as, well, imitation crab. Not to be crabby about it, but how gullible do they think we are?
She started her blog after foot surgery three years ago, and had the goal of writing a post every day (until that darn foot healed). She loves to research the photos and see how much we are influenced by our past. Like many of the most successful bloggers, she wrote for herself. On her list of wants would be a copy-editor, since she has to be her own, but other than that, there isn't much. Getting to sit down and write, where time sits still, and make observations, when your instinct is correct and on-point is why she does this. It's like your own free magazine delivered to your inbox with only one woman producing it, so go ahead and subscribe.
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| a pin that michelle just whipped up one day - damn her |
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