A Love Letter To Fashion

The ones that know me well, know that I love fashion. Not a simple love, not a common love but almost an obsession, a way of living. I’m a fanatic, I confess! I look at a Saint Laurent bag like it’s the love of my life. Sometimes I find myself looking at my collection of Vogue On books with tears on my eyes. Tears of joy, of course, but I know I look stupid. I don’t simply read those books, I admire every single word in it. I stop at the end of every chapter just to absorb all the information I just read. The feeling is just the same as a girl who just received a cute sms from her lover and finds herself with a smile from ear to ear. I feel and look exactly the same as I’m reading the story of Christian Dior, for example.

It’s kinda hard to talk about fashion with my friends. They don’t understand my passion and that’s because they don’t see fashion as I do. Although, they still listen my thoughts and stare at me like I’m a big expert in the business. As I’m chatting with one of them, he says to me “I know that you love fashion but I can’t understand why”. Well, because fashion is seen, at most of the times, as a frivolous business. For me, it’s actually an art and the best way to prove this to your friends is to show them videos of Haute Couture.

I guess I’ve always been a fashion girl and I can thank that to one person only: my mother. I remember having a million hair bands and matching them with my clothes. It was her that taught me what colors I could mix in my outfits. For that reason, I’ve always been a simple girl, not taking too much risks when deciding what to wear. In High School, I was more like a tomboy, wearing jeans and sneakers every single day. My affair truly began when I was studying Management in college. I really don’t know why but I started to search for every designer, seeing their shows and getting curious about their story. Giambattista Valli was the one that showed me how amazing fashion is. I remember seeing Blake Lively in Cannes wearing a Giambattista Valli dress and I immediately fell in love with that designer. Today, it still is one of my favorites. The interest in high fashion started to get bigger and bigger and I decided to launch a blog, my baby Anna Stellar. There, I talked about everything I wanted, everything I really cared about, and it didn’t matter how many followers I had. It still don’t.

I stopped working on Anna Stellar because I don’t want to be a blogger, I want to work in high fashion and I can assure you that I will. It may take months or years, but I will. When you discover what really makes you happy, what makes you get out of bed without effort, what makes your eyes shine bright, you must get it. And today I know, fashion runs in my veins.

I like to see fashion from the inside, not from the outside. If I could choose between visiting the Chanel house or have a 2.55 bag, I would definitely choose a visit to Chanel. I know a bag lasts forever, but it doesn’t compares to the joy of seeing how Chanel works on the inside. I’m amazed by their Haute Couture collections and I really enjoy seeing their videos of making-of. If I ever have the opportunity to see an Haute Couture piece, I’ll certainly cry of happiness. I love all the details and it would be a great pleasure to talk with the couturiers to understand how they make such beautiful pieces.

Social media is changing the fashion industry. Bloggers all around the world are taking the fashion weeks front-rows and collaborating with big brands but I still don’t follow on Instagram the “regular” it girls. I prefer to follow designers, photographers, creative directors, editors-in-chief of fashion magazines, stylists and every single model. Alexa Chung is my girl crush. I adore and admire every single thing in her. I love her unique style, her messy hair, her music taste and her way of living. I love her book and her fashion brand. I love that she follows her dreams and that’s why she’s my inspiration. I could write an entire page just talking about Alexa and how much I love her. She wrote in her book that she thinks Kate Moss is the coolest girl on earth. Well, Alexa, I think you’re the coolest girl on earth.

Currently, I’m obsessed with French girls. Why? They’re effortlessly cool! To read How To Be Parisian Wherever You Are was a blessing and it gave me more strength to continue to be a simple girl. Fashion doesn’t have to mean eccentricity, I truly think less is more and I live by that rule. Plus, I think I was a Parisian in another life. Only that can explain how much I love Paris. I love that city so much and I dream to live there. I need to live in that city to truly live fashion.

I’m Laura Guimarães, a girl with 23 years old, in a world of constant change, but I know my passion for fashion will last forever.