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Hello,

C-B and her famous closet

I used to think having the perfect closet meant owning millions of items of clothing and accessories and hoarding them in some big room of fashion. I used to shop every few days on my way back from classes or work. I ended up with a treasure trove of fashion in my room.
Except. I hardly wear any of it.

Over the last year and a half I've started to find myself by creating myself. When I started blogging I was more or less a lost soul in the sea of life. In time, I've started to find comfort in my own skin, through blogging, through working towards my ambitions and creating new ones when one is achieved. Through finding happiness in my own space, in my own time, in my own way.

When I started blogging, I had come from a 'nice' life that I tore apart to find passion and experience the world for myself. It was terrifying leaving a nice job, a nice boy, a nice house, nice foods, nice things, nice way of life. People thought I was mad, except I knew I wasn't. Fast forward a year and a half, that nice job was a for a company that ended up closing down. That nice boy turned out to be a stranger to me. That nice way of life was not what made me happy, in fact the complete opposite.
I didn't mean any of it personally, I just needed to be away from it for my own sanity.

From 'Spirituality for busy lives'

My income is never certain and I work day and night doing what I do now but I've never been happier. My boyfriend is a musician who has traveled the world doing what he loves. I've never been happier and more comfortable around someone. He's my best friend. That's when it occurred to me; unless it's been for a wedding or very special occasion, in the last year I haven't been shopping. I've been given a few items of clothing and found the occasional treasure in a charity store; apart from that no high street binges, no online late night bargains. I realized; it's because i'm happy.

What if you were told you could have infinite closet space filled with beautiful clothes that looked lovely but when you wore them you felt conscious or one outfit but every time you wore it you felt like a force to be reckoned with. Which would you pick?

I find myself no longer 'in fashion' I love fashion shows, seeing the store displays change throughout the year, I just wouldn't say it's how I am styled. I've found my style and though from time to time I may take a little inspiration from a trend, my style more or less feels like it belongs to me. It's my expression of my personality and the type of person I am. I didn't get that while working in fashion.

So I find myself no longer hoarding and collecting throw-away fashion from all my favourite high street stores. I can't stand looking like every other person in the world, it seems we've all become mannequins incapable of finding our own look. Mannequins should be an inspiration for a look or style but shops use it as a way to sell you an entire outfit and we use it as a way of finding the perfect outfit without really putting any of ourselves into it.

It's taken me a long time to find my own style but when I get dressed these days I do feel like a force to be reckoned with, I feel comfortable, I feel good.
So the fashion part of this blog will look at trends, shows and events but it won't be a high-street haul shopping blog. The fashion featured here will be hunted down from treasure troves and brought here to LITTLEBEARWOLFCOVE.

How would I describe my style? Like a Romantic-goth-Russian-doll-gypsy-hippie with a penchant for 90's grunge. I've loved anything grungy and goth since I was about 14. My mum was a hippy and that's certainly left an impression on me, I had a giant sun painted on my bedroom wall when I was 9 to bring light into my life, with a moon on the other to remind me that even in the dark there is light. The gypsy, romance, Russian aspects of my style have come from the stories I've read, the places I've been and the things I have seen.

I'm off to clear my closet, my mantra for my closet space is 'If I don't LOVE it, it doesn't stay'.

What are your style inspirations? How do you feel about fashion? What is your closet like? I'd love to read your fashion blogs, hear your thoughts on the subject. Feel free to link your blogs in the comments below.

LOVE&PEACE
♥ ☮
KG

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