Members of the invitation-only TheFashionSpot forums are best known for their enthusiastic reactions to new runway collections and their fast sharing of new pictures and scans. But many members also make themselves known through their broad knowledge about art and beauty and are admired for their unique personal style. In our new series, we are spotlighting some of the most outstanding and interesting contributors to the tFS forums and giving you get a peek inside their offline lives.
Jamie Myers, who goes by the user name rochasfille in the forums, is one of our favorite not-so-secret shopaholics, sharing many of her enviable purchases in the Secret Shopaholics thread and making us swoon over her impeccable style. The 27-year old fashionista, who hails from Mobile, AL, dropped out of The University of Alabama where she majored in Pre-med Anthropology and is currently trying to turn her admirable dedication to fashion and shopping into a career by becoming a stylist and writer. Jamie, who lists Love, Purple, Vogue Paris, and Vogue Nippon as her must-read magazines, wants to move to a city where the opportunities to have a career in fashion are less minimal than in her hometown and where she would like to someday "have full creative control of my own 3-D digital magazine, which I design issues of in my head constantly."
Jamie is allowed to dream big, seeing as how she has managed to impress none other than Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen when she entered a contest sponsored by PopSugar and Elizabeth & James where her design was chosen as the winning entry by the Olsen twins themselves. As the winner, she was invited to Fashion's Night Out where she got to meet the Olsens in person. About the experience, she says it was "surreal" and that she now has even more respect for the sisters and their accomplishments. Jamie loves that their label The Row is one of the brands leading the way in keeping their manufacturing based in the U.S. as much as possible and she hopes that many more designers follow suit because it is something she is very passionate about as well. She also was impressed by how extremely knowledgeable Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen are about what they do and says that both of them were very sweet.
In addition to contributing to our forums, Jamie also runs her own style blog called Fashion Nerd Diary. On her blog Jamie writes about her inspiration, her favorite fashion shows, and her own personal style in such a charming and nonchalant way that she makes it easy to identify with her and the blog will certainly make you curious to know more about her. That is why we asked her to talk to us about current trends, her shopping tips, and why she loves sharing her thoughts on fashion with fellow tFSers.
The Fashion Spot: I recently read an article in our forums about double denim being an upcoming trend (Double Denim now OK). I see you are already way ahead of the trend since you already shared your interpretation of a denim-on-denim look on your blog a few weeks ago! (Denim on denim on nerd). What is your opinion on this trend, do you think it's easy to make it work?
The look I wore recently on my blog would unequivocally be a 'NO' in the majority of people's minds here, and paired with my platform sneakers and crazy Prabal Gurung sunglasses, it probably just skewed as outright confusing. All local judgment aside, I think denim on denim is a classic look, and like other popular staples such as mariniere tops or ballet flats that emerged as trends decades ago, denim pairings are an ideal addition to any wardrobe of basics, as denim can be worn with literally anything. Like all trends, of course, the denim on denim look will most definitely lose its 'it' factor in years (or seasons) to come, but since its acceptance in the 60s, denim has held a secure place in the world of fashion, so this is one trend that is definitely worth investing in if you ask me.
tFS: Does it occur quite often that you try a new look and later see it become a trend? And if yes, does it annoy you when that happens or are you proud about foreseeing what's “in” way before something is labeled the next big trend?
JM: I have always considered myself a fairly decent trend forecaster, since I have followed fashion so closely since I was 10 or so. I'm generally several years ahead of the curve where I live, but I've never gotten credit for actually starting any trends. This doesn't bother me at all because I wear pieces so differently than other people do here, and I don't think that their adaptation to trends has as much to do with an appreciation for fashion as it does just fitting in. The only time that I have been irked about having worn something first and not received credit was in middle school when I wore these little beaded serenity bracelets a full year before all of the 'popular' girls started wearing them (at which point I had to stop wearing them so as to not be perceived as a follower, grrr). Of course, the reason I was upset was because I was in middle school, and thus had the emotional maturity of a middle schooler. In general, I think it' s irrelevant who gets credit for starting a trend. It's all about making that trend your own and wearing said trend because it represents your personal style and not because you want to be perceived as 'cool,' which is so not cool anymore, anyway.
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