Style Symmetry

It seems like only yesterday I was writing a Blog to Watch post for this new blog called Keiko Lynn, flash forward one year and she has one of the most popular sites in the fashion blogging community. As I stated then it is still true today that her posts are honest and heartfelt. Keiko really lets you into her life showing the behind the scenes, her family, insecurities like we all have and poor kitty who had health problems. Her blog is also filled with amazing giveaways and updates to her Postlapsaria store. Her style is a mix of bright colors, lots of tights, heels and mega girly appeal consisting of many skirts and dresses usually vintage or self made. Enjoy Keiko Lynn’s answers to The Symmetry Seven below.

1. What would you name your personal style?
Always feminine, sometimes quirky.

2. Is there anything you wouldn’t wear?
Fur really grosses me out – I can’t even touch it. I also don’t wear flip flops, which is blasphemy in Florida (where I was born and raised).

3. Where do you get your outfit inspirations?
My inspiration isn’t really direct; it’s more of an overall attitude toward my wardrobe. Iris Apfel is a huge inspiration. I don’t dress like her but I’ve been highly influenced by her attitude toward fashion, which is to wear what you like and what makes you feel good. I don’t take fashion very seriously; I just know that I love it.

4. What’s your favorite non fashion hobby?
Swimming on horseback (seen here) and playing scrabble. Seriously! But not at the same time. That would be weird.

5. How much time do you spend working on your blog?
Not enough! I have to work full time on my clothing line, Postlapsaria, so my blogging is done in my free moments. I often have to create a free moment in order to keep it going.

6. What songs/albums are you loving right now?
I’m the kind of girl who grows attached to albums and doesn’t let go until I’ve absolutely killed it. I’m still in love with M83, Band of Horses, Andrew Bird, Camera Obscura, The Bird and The Bee, Broken Social Scene, so on and so forth. I think the main album that will never die for me is The Velvet Teen’s Out of the Fierce Parade.

7. When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?
According to my pre-school graduation’s article in the newspaper, I wanted to be a model. I don’t ever remember wanting to be a model – I think I just said it because I didn’t know how “I want to be Paula Abdul” would be received by the reporter. I really wanted to be Paula Abdul or Madonna but it didn’t work out.

Keiko Lynn thank you so much for participating!!

Also see Symmetry Seven with
Siri of Ringo Have a Banana
Doe Deere
Rhiannon of Liebemarlene Vintage
Dressed Up Like a Lady
The Clothes Horse
Beth Jones of The Vintage Society
Susie of Style Bubble
The Glamourai
Jennine of The Coveted

Siri of Ringo, Have a Banana! dresses like she stepped out of Lula magazine in soft colors and vintage pieces with just a dash of rock and roll edge.  There is always an element of simplicity as if every piece was picked on purpose with no unneeded accessories throw in.  In addition to outfit posts Siri shares pretty pictures, her love of Chloë (Sevigny that is), catchy music videos and her weakness for shoes, shoes, shoes! Below are Siri’s answers to The Symmetry Seven.

1. What would you name your personal style?

Virginia Plain.

2. Is there anything you wouldn’t wear?

There are very few things that I truly wouldn’t wear, but I am strongly adverse to anything modern that’s labeled as “retro”–I’d rather spend the time and effort finding the original vintage piece, thanks! Also, those Japanese Tabi boots just really gross me out.

3. Where do you get your outfit inspirations?

Possibly my favorite thing about creating outfits is the play between colors, and I find myself very inspired by photography and art in that regard, especially by the works of William Eggleston, Kelly Wise and Egon Schiele. Movies can have the same effect, and my favorite inspirational films include For a Few Dollars More, The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, The Passenger and Chinese Roulette. As far as actual people go, some of my favorite contemporary dressers are Chloë Sevigny, Michelle Williams, Valentine Fillol-Cordier, and the girls from Anywho.cover.dk.

4. What’s your favorite non fashion hobby?

Outside of sleeping and eating, it’s a tie between analog photography and Super 8 filmmaking. I can be pretty stubborn when it comes to clinging to the past, although I’m not afraid to embrace technology when it comes in handy. I still wont use Google Reader though.

5. How much time do you spend working on your blog?

It totally depends, on everything from the weather to schoolwork to whether or not my boyfriend is in town to keep me busy. But I definitely wish it could me more, or at least a more consistent amount. I’d like to update multiple times a day if possible, and include more photos of my own daily life, but I need a better camera–and more natural light!

6. What songs/albums are you loving right now?

Anyone who reads my blog is probably pretty sick of hearing about how much I love GIRLS…so I wont mention them (oops!) My favorite song of all time is probably “If There is Something” by Roxy Music. Two songs I could never get sick of are “Jennifer” by Faust and “Come Go With Me” by Del Vikings. Otherwise, I’ve been listening to a lot of Everly Brothers, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Neil Young, Suicide and The Stooges.

7. When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?

I wanted desperately to be a famous, well-loved movie actress. By the time I got to the end of high school, I finally realized that what I called acting was much more akin to yelling things and making goofy faces. Meryl Streep, I am not.

Some older stand out looks

The middle outfit is from the traveling shirt project.

Siri thank you so much for participating!!

Also see Symmetry Seven with
Doe Deere
Rhiannon of Liebemarlene Vintage
Dressed Up Like a Lady
The Clothes Horse
Beth Jones of The Vintage Society
Susie of Style Bubble
The Glamourai
Jennine of The Coveted

Doe Deere Blogazine is a one of a kind site featuring makeup tutorials utilizing makeup from Doe Deeres Lime Crime line, out of this world fantasy outfits, advice column and oodles of giveaways. Doe Deere will be launching her lipstick line in October, is a musician, sweetheart and only 28 years of age. Going through the archives today to choose these photos I realized that I have read every word she has written on the site in the past year. If you haven’t yet please add Doe Deere Blogazine to your daily reads, I guarantee you will enjoy it.

1. What would you name your personal style?
Candyfuturistic. Colorful pastels, silvers, golds, and iridescents.

2. Is there anything you wouldn’t wear?
Black, brown, beige & gray aren’t my favorite…

3. Where do you get your outfit inspirations?
From inside my head, of course. With inner world this elaborate, do I
really need to look elsewhere?

4. What’s your favorite non fashion hobby?
Animal rescue. I’m always picking up sick birds from the street.

5. How much time do you spend working on your blog?
3-5 hours every day.

6. What songs/albums are you loving right now?
La Roux, Bulletproof. Electropop in general!

7. When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?
A mermaid. Grew up to be a unicorn instead!

Doe Deere thank you so much for participating!!

Also see Symmetry Seven with
Rhiannon of Liebemarlene Vintage
Dressed Up Like a Lady
The Clothes Horse
Beth Jones of The Vintage Society
Susie of Style Bubble
The Glamourai
Jennine of The Coveted

There is a long history of me reading Liebemarlene’s fashion blog, actually it goes further back as I remember seeing her ebay store first back in 2007. An adorable girl modeling pretty vintage dresses of course catches the eye. She was one of the few blogs I read prior to starting my own and her ability to overcome shyness to share posts with the world gave me courage. Rhiannon is a lover of small towns, antiques and silent film stars. She collects vintage dresses, often struggling over which items to sell and which to keep. Her photos really stepped up a notch when “Kumar” became her man behind the camera and created her lovely scrapbook frames. Please check out Liebemarlene and her ebay store.

1. What would you name your personal style?

I think I would call it romantic with a quirky twist . . . I wear mostly vintage, mostly dresses and girly things, but then I also have a thing for tall, ugly-ish shoes and and for mixing decades and pieces that don’t necessarily go together.

2. Is there anything you wouldn’t wear?

I guess I’ll probably never wear anything that’s really sexy or tight–well, stuff like that would look awful on me, so I’m just not drawn to it at all.

3. Where do you get your outfit inspirations?

I steal ideas from collections that I like and from street style sites and other fashion blogs. Or I’ll find one thing–a dress or skirt or blouse or pair of shoes or just a color scheme–and build the outfit around it. And I’m definitely inspired by old movies and old silent film star photos.

4. What’s your favorite non fashion hobby?

Lately I’ve been really into reading history books about the Civil War. I was never really into it all that much before or really American history of any kind, but living in the South is making me want to read up on every single battlefield and plantation around. Also when I work on Ebay listings I’ve been watching the Ken Burns Civil War documentary and it just about makes me cry.

5. How much time do you spend working on your blog?

Around two to three hours a day–it takes me the most time to come up with an idea for a blog post, usually. And getting the pictures together too–it’s always such a relief to finally hit upon something to write about, because the writing’s what comes the fastest.

6. What songs/albums are you loving right now?

T. Rex radio on Pandora! It’s wonderful . . . Right now my favorite thing to listen to probably is super early T. Rex–songs like Deborah and One Inch Rock and Beltane Walk are so weird-pretty!

7. When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?

I think I always wanted to be a writer, ever since I was 9 or so. Before that I think I was too lazy to think about it. Oh, I think my sisters & I wanted to be cops so we wouldn’t get thrown in jail!

Rhiannon thank you so much for participating!!

Visiting Cammila’s blog is love at first site, with the fitting name Dressed Up Like a Lady as her outfits are always taken to that next level of put together, detailed and always accessorized.  She has a quirky feminine style that rivals our wildest fantasies of how we’d like to dress up mixing pink hair with lots of red, always in vintage and posing like a diva.  She is sweet as pie with all her readers and even inspired my current blue streak.  Below are her answers to the Symmetry Seven.

1. What would you name your personal style? I usually describe it as cinematic. I’m often inspired by characters in movies, but even more so, I just tend to think of outfits as part of a story or character.

6. What songs/albums are you loving right now? I’ve been listening to Eat to the Beat by Blondie pretty regularly for the past week or so. I’ve also developed this weird obsession with 70’s and 80’s soft rock, in an interest that quickly escalated from irony, to novelty, to earnest, inexplicable fixation. Also, I got to listen to the Dead Weather’s album today, Horehound, and I’m really excited about it.

7. When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up? One time, I found a picture that I’d drawn in 1st grade, where the class assignment was to draw what you wanted to be when you grew up. It was divided into two halves, because I couldn’t decide between “Ballerina” and “Game Show Hostess.” So far I’m 0 for 2.

Cammila thank you so much for participating!!

P.S. Click here to see my previous interviews
Jennine of The Coveted
The Glamourai
Susie of Style Bubble
Beth Jones of The Vintage Society
The Clothes Horse