#CourtesanCore
Courtesan in training
What is a fashion CORE?
Core is a style, a trend and so much more. Fashion cores are fast, mood driven, eccentric, theatrically real and based on the entire being; they are SOUL CORE. They can be dopamine dressing as much as dystopia doomed.
When you find your core, the expression of your truest self or exquisitely authentic moment, you might be so enamored that you never leave it again. Or you descend into all of them all like me and unleash the multi dimensional being you might be.
Fashion as a feeling started a couple years back when I coined the phrase, “I wear my soul on my sleeves.” I showed that “outfits talk” and how they talk to us. Sartorial is my fifth language. It took me three years to be fluent in it. If you like to learn it follow me on Instagram. Because you’re worth it: when we communicate with forms, fabrics and colors and listen to their history, fashion gains a depths that can be life altering. Imagine you step into #CourtesanCore and your deepest desires awaken?
The fabric of the universe is literally in the smallest objects and the vainest decor.
That Gen Z is an integral part of micro-cores’ popularity shows how generations evolve, at least right now it seems that GenZ is intuitively smarter, and more present and real as most of us Boomers or the nearly forgotten “middle child” generation of GenX ever were. GenZ is shaken by the apparent signs of global doom, they dance on the vulcano while trying to calm it down.
Cores appear in many different shapes like mushrooms after a warm summer rain; mysterious, eccentric, tasty or poisonous, they can give you delusions of grandeur or visions of truth.
Normcore, Barbiecore, Cottage, Royal, Angel or Villaincore and countless more, are aesthetics, not just costumes, they tell our story from our shoe laces to our dark roots. When stepping into a core of our desire we play them out as holistic as they are. We create a Gesamtkunstwerk; from the color of our pedicure to the meaningfully messy or stylishly slick hair.
I had magical moments when I was driving through LA to shoot an outfit and its expression guided me to the perfect backdrop, matching colors and vibe.
Styles are often created by designers, brand and society, we adapt to them as something outside of us. Cores connect, as the word so clearly states, our inside with the outside.
To me they are, even when only fleeting scenes in world wide fashion inaugurations, wondrous creations of body, mind, spirit and soul and the fantastic materials that make them seen.
Come back next week as I am styling the cores you might feel feel connected to.
