At Fashion for Nerds, a couple of posters (mostly Audi) post their creative outfits. Audi has a European/San Franciscan layering sensibility. The outfits are mostly too experimental for me, and Audi's body type is not like mine (even if I keep getting more and more in shape). I would look terrible in nearly all of what she wears, and I also don't like many of the outfits. The more multicolored it gets, the less likely I would to be caught dead in it, because either you're a 6-different-contrasting-colors person or you're not. If you are, you look cool and fun when you're wearing them like she does. If you're not, you look awkward and silly. I'm definitely the latter! Nonetheless, even though my options are extremely limited (see "The Best Evidence Against the Evidence of Democracy in Fashion..."), I'm looking at Japanese fashion and people like her to try to help me get more inspired. Since I can't buy what I actually want to wear in the stores and can't yet sew, I'll have to be creative about combining things...
I can imagine wearing some elements of some of the outfits, at any rate, and I really do love some of the others. Here are a few that qualify one way or the other.
Louis XIV
Breaking the Tie Barrier
Regal (though definitely not the mustardy tights--turquoise, maybe!)
Dreary Day
Yet Another Example of Sal's Awesomeness
Anyway, it's fun to look around. I also noticed the All Saints brand through her, which has cool, expensive, drapey, sometimes asymmetrical clothes that look very Japanese to me, despite its being a British brand.
