Hands down, my all-time favorite fashion blogger is Zana. I remember following her posts back when she posted on the hot_fashion community on livejournal. She was always confident and daring in her outfits and that was something I was always attracted to. With the oversaturation of fashion blogs (haha present company included), after a while they all seem to be the same. Every one is becoming a carbon copy of each other. That could not be further from the truth when it comes to Zana. She is always ahead of everyone else and never becomes a victim to a certain trend. Whether its her ridiculous DIYs or the experimentation of shapes and texture, I’m always in complete awe.
Now she is by no means a plus-sized girl but the reason I felt compelled to post about her is because she inspires me to be more bold, more provocative, more challenging in my everyday fashion sense. While we may not be able to wear the same designers, her ideas are much more valuable to me than the actual name on the tag. So seeing outfits on people who are smaller (or larger) than I am is still inspiration. It gets the wheels turning in my head and makes me want to take that idea and adapt it to fit my style and my plus-size body.
I don’t post my outfits on the internet for praise or compliments because i don’t want anyone to dress like me. Its not about being identical, its about pushing the boundaries of what’s acceptable. Its about making those girls whose first instinct is to say something snarky, take a second glance and ask you where’d you get x, y, or z. Its about telling the world that yes, i am fat but I can dress with the best of them. Its about being confident and taking pride in who you are and the body you’re in. Its about not letting others hold power over how you feel about yourself. Its about looking in the mirror and loving what you see. Its about being young, fat and fabulous ((c) gabi! lol) and letting the world know that they can no longer hold you down. That is what fashion is about. That is what fashion can do.
