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We all seem to have an unprecedented amount of free time these days, so whether you're in school writing papers or you're desperate for a creative outlet, you're still on the lookout for content. This list I have compiled addresses resources that can be fun and creative or provides content that’s analytical and rivals the insights of political news outlets.

Written by Sofia Greaves


If you loved Polyvore up until its end, you probably held a tiny bit of resentment for this company, the company that bought them out. Well, don't. They are an underrated platform that is styled like an online magazine with interviews, trend reports, and color concepts. Plus, you can enter any luxury fashion brand, Indie or world-renowned, big or small, and find the brands ready-to-wear items this season. They branch out their content to be a little bit broader than the fashion industry, but even that content does still tie-in to sartorial trends.


Again, if you loved Polyvore up until its close, you might still be looking for a creative outlet that could somehow replace it. Shoplook is constantly changing and adding amenities. You can upload your own images via URL, and they also coded a clipper! It's like nothing changed. Only instead of a black logo, it's blue. There are contests where if you win, it boosts your pages engagement and your artwork is plastered all over the front page. For the creating process, it is not an overwhelming number of buttons thrown at you: ALL the images are separated and categorized between frames, drawings, editorial images, clothes, and blog title clippings to create and organize your ideal mood board or virtual lookbook.


Worth Global Style Network is the world’s leading trend research resource. They partner with companies from all over and in many different industries, not just fashion, to provide insight, but their specialty is fashion. They offer many kinds of reports that range from long deep dives on sustainability and effective window displays for retailers, to libraries of looks from runway shows of designers from all over the world. To access WGSN though, you need to be logged in through your school as a student. If you are not a student and have no access to the exclusive reports, they have a free-to-view blog that is up to par with their exclusive reports and a YouTube channel that evaluates street style seasonally. This is the best resource for people who love diving into research, case studies, and consumer behavior and want to pursue this as a career one day.


Business of Fashion is an intelligence resource targeted to navigate the trends and actions within the fashion industry. They are going to be your best resource for your essays where you have to think of the consumer and how they are affected. You can search for any key term, and depending on how broad you are going, you will be able to choose between "intelligence" articles or "news and analysis" articles. BOF, like WGSN, gives you the most content if you are logged in through your school, as a non-student, you must buy a subscription like you would with the Wall Street Journal. It is the dream company for a serious fashion writer, especially if you are a critical thinker and problem solver.


I threw Pinterest on here because, for a veteran social media website, it is vastly underrated. Honestly, this is how I found most of the websites in this article. You not only can search for specific styles or fashion designers, but the majority of well-photographed images to “pin” are found and connected to this website through an external source. It is the platform made for you to find and organize your personal aesthetic if you are only in the mood to look at fashion as the eye candy that it is and nothing more. I can't think of another website that you can access vintage editorials or runway pictures faster.


Tv shows tell a story, but so do clothing. Here’s a guide to taking inspiration from your favorite fictional characters.

By Sofia Greaves

Zoe Johnson- Blackish & Grownish

If you are in college, not only would you relate to Zoey’s journey through her freshman and sophomore year, but you can see her levels of experimentation with hairstyles and outfits, and how she turns it up when she is at her best. Zoe grew up wealthy, so she has access to the expensive clothes in which she created a colorful wardrobe that helps her be as extra as possible. Whether she is at school or at a party, she is youthful, on-trend, and complete. You only see her go drastically casual when at home chilling with her man and her immediate friend group. This is the only time you see a predominance of neutral tones in her outfit. Her style mimics the ups and downs of her life and of the occasions. It is very realistic of a fashion-enthusiast college student’s mentality of getting dressed.

Rainbow "Bow" Johnson- Blackish

Quirky and eccentric, We can only hope to be this cool when we are moms. Bow carries positive energy with her in almost every situation. Being that she is in scrubs 50 hours a week, her time off is her time to go off with her outfits. Her si You can take any of her outfits to brunch, or a night out with the girls. She does not necessarily fall under the category of “dressing your age” but she takes easy trends and make them mature enough for any mom. Graphic t-shirts are for anyone, but you would see her wear them nicely with a midi skirt. Her signature is bold patterns and florals. A matching set is cute for summer on young teens and girls in her 20s, but rainbows version of it is comfortable and fits her body in a modest, flattering way. I imagine that you could wear this to work in a modest but creative, business casual environment.

Olivia Pope- Scandal

If you work in a corporate environment that does not allow for the more risky and adventurous outfits, Olivia Pope is a great guide. She rarely referenced the clothing on her back of the purse she carries, even though each and every bag she carried was a Prada tote, making it her signature. Washington dc gets cold, so her coats are her statement pieces. The heavier the drama is, the darker her psyche is. And with that darkness, comes intimidating silhouettes. If you take inspiration from Olivia Pope, you will feel like a looming shadow over anyone that ever made you feel insecure.

Fran Fine- The Nanny

Out favorite nanny, the nanny named Fran Fine, from the show with the catchiest theme song ever, Her style is the next stage of the reborn 90s style that is now being replicated on Instagram for a night out anywhere. She gave us cheetah print, sequins, checkered print, Moschino moments, matching sets, and Chanel inspired blazers. Her glam moments were as big as her beautiful hair and as loud as her voice. We love a woman who isn't afraid to use her voice. Fran was never shy, and it shows. A lot of street style night outfits remind me of her; mini skirts today are styled with graphic tees and or turtle necks. Paired with the right hair and accessories, it is bright, fun, and outgoing.

Blair Waldorf- Gossip Girl

Dan Humphry called her "a dictator of taste", and that is the best way to describe her influences on girls that adored this show. There is vacation Blair, school Blair, leisure Blair, and work Blair. All of them have different directions but were on the same journey. At Constance Billard, she carried herself as above everyone. She was the queen of daily trends and focused on classy signature pieces more than statement pieces. Those would be her opaque tights (in any color) and the notorious collection of headbands. She is classy enough that her pieces are timeless, but the colors are seasonal.as she grows up on Gossip Girl and gets different jobs and her social status is defined by different attributes, her style becomes more constant and we see her every day/workwear be more mature and modest as if the stylist for her character is subtly saying that Blair does not need to follow trends or be more feminine because her personality will be sharp enough to show through her choice of dress.

Fallon Harrington- Dynasty



Fallon Harrington, from the new reboot of Dynasty, is the Blair Waldorf of the gen Z television culture. A more grown-up plot, Fallon Harrington exudes confidence and faces her enemies with her best Manolo foot forward. She is sharp and manipulative and rarely follows in anyone's footsteps but her own. She wears her suits with as much power and aggression to match the strength in her personality, and the out of office outfits are no different. She does not fail to use her femininity to her advantage, but she also does not let anyone see her as less serious about business, or more naive about the content of a transaction. She commands respect and looks high fashion while doing so.

Jenny Humphrey- Gossip Girl

Jenny Humphry is a young edgy designer that has taken everything she had seen on her upper-east-side comrades to a subversive level. Like Blair, she too has had a transformation over the years. She was introduced as a soft, innocent young girl who wants to fit in with her Constance Billard mates. When she realized they were all just insecure Blair minions and had no originality to them, she branched off and risked social-death to learn who she is, and freely be that. We see this through the way she changes up her accessories with or sewn on to, her uniform. To put it simply, the darker her make-up, the darker her character becomes. When she is is a senior and the reigning Queen of the school, the skirts get shorter, the make-up gets darker, and the attitude is more assertive. She knows what trends are popular and only implements them on her clothes if she can darken up anything soft and frilly.


The main cast of The Bold Type

Kat Edison

Kat is a social media genius in her workplace. She takes charge and doesn't back down from what she believes strongly in. She knows the beauty of a blazer, but she's not afraid of prints or colors. If anything, she embraces it effortlessly. On her day off, She is more of a risk-taker out of her friends, but overall her style is that of a modern classic. Kat wears many hats: She's a social media executive, an Internet influencer with a decent following, and at one point she was A political figure in her community. So she knows how to push the limits, and, in her personal life, those risks take her to places that might make most people uncomfortable. But at the end of the day people take her seriously she's a force to be reckoned with and her clothes portray that perfectly.

Jane Sloan

All characters in The Bold Type are dynamic, but Jane goes through a lot of growth and hardship in her career at Scarlet on the show. Nevertheless, she turns it out. If she were a battle warrior, her armor would be the most elaborate, detailed, multifaceted textile to exist. All this, and she is not in the fashion department at scarlet. She's a writer! It just proves that you don't have to be an expert in the industry to dress well, but it helps that her bestie Sutton is. We see her in many different black sheer tops, and she knows how to wear leather in a way that is feminine but portrays how untouchable and headstrong she is in her personal life and her writing career. She has a feminine personality with a pinch of hardness. Therefore, She sprinkles these rough textures in her girly silhouettes to truly create a character with her looks.

Sutton Brady

Sutton is moving up in the fashion world but has always had her style locked down. She is rather conservative, but it just proves that you can be stylish without showing much skin. Kat said it best: "sophisticated yet accessible." She loves her colors, and she knows how to layer. She may question herself from time to time but at the end of the day fashion is in her blood it's what she is meant to do for the rest of her life and she will stop at nothing to achieve her goals. With certain, she has no limits and her style is her a comfort zone but from a design aspect, she's always ready to push the limits.

Stay tuned for Don's picks coming soon!

…okay, take the hoodie too.

Boyfriends are useful for a whole slew of reasons, at the very top of that list of reasons is their clothes, we steal them and they have to pretend that they’re happy about it, or at the very least they have to pretend that they don’t mind. We really started to see “the blazer” trend come into fashion in the years prior to 2016, but it didn’t really start to gain popularity until 2018-2019. That’s when it evolved into the “boyfriend blazer,” i.e. big oversized blazers that can be both boss-b*tch-business-casual and street-style-chic. A year later, and this trend isn’t showing signs of going anywhere anytime soon, so you better know all the ways that you can style this look.

Here’s how to rock a blazer:

#1 Oversized-Oversized


The key to rocking an oversized blazer is to make everything else skin-tight; a nice fitted crop top or baby-tee, along with some pants you could barely sit down in, and some subtle shoes - the shoes could either be some casual heels or your favorite pair of chunky sneakers. To really complete the look, throw on a chain necklace or some other accessory - something strong, yet dainty.

#2 Have the Blazer Itself Be the Accessory


Similar to your jeans in 2018, and your denim jackets in 2019, your blazer is getting some love in the form of embellishments, beads, pearls, and studs. You could easily do this trend yourself with five minutes, one of the blazers your boyfriend never wears, and a bedazzler gun. You’ll have a statement jacket and a blazer that will turn heads all in one.

#3 PATTERNS!!!


Don’t be afraid of crazy patterns or vintage plaids. The secret to pulling it off is to (1) wear neutral colors like in the picture above, (2) wear the colors within the blazer itself, or (3) play it safe and chic, wear all black underneath and have the blazer be the pop of color. It looks very stylish and it’ll match every time, because, after all, “[black] looks good with anything!”

#4 Layer It!


When in doubt, throw on a cute trench coat!

#5 Your Grandparents Blazer


Trust me, that blazer in the back of your grandparents’ closet is not ugly, in fact, the “uglier” it is the better. Similar to a blazer with a wild pattern, if you have a neon blazer or one of those powder-blue blazers with all the ruffles that your grandfather wore to prom, the simplest way to make-it-fashion is just to wear all black underneath, (I know, I know, my solution to everything) subtle shoes, subtle make up, and minimal jewelry. You could also find blazers like this in thrift stores, the less aesthetically pleasing it is, the cheaper it’ll be – if only they knew.

#6 Pair it with Leather


Vinyl trousers and faux-leather skirts is another way we are seeing the blazer trend styled and I 10 out of 10 recommend! I’m literally obsessed, it’s one of those day-to-night transitional outfits and we have no choice but to STAN! You’ll always look like you just left somebody’s runway show during fashion week, or like you’re meeting a Kardashian for brunch.

#7 A Monochromatic Moment


Monochrome is having a moment in 2020 and I am here for it! Matching sets are all the rage right now and there is no way that they’re going to die down. Powersuits are the perfect way to let the world know that you are a boss b*tch, channel your inner Meryl Streep from The Devil Wears Prada or your modern-day Jacqueline Carlyle from The Bold Type and take the world by storm!

#8 Add a Belt

my recommendation, Gucci for the office and Off-White for a night out


When the blazer might be a little too large, adding a belt over the top will help to cinch in your waist and make the oversized blazer a little more purposeful. It would actually be better if the belt stood out and was part of the outfit instead of blending in and being the same pattern or even a similar color as the blazer. This would help make the belt more of an accessory, bonus, hardly any other jewelry would be needed.

#9 Borrow His Old Band Tee Too


Lastly, there’s the obvious, pair your boyfriend’s blazer with one of his graphic tee’s, skinny jeans, and some cute boots. This outfit is a little more punk rock and edgy, perfect for a street style look. The most important thing about styling this look is to make sure that the band tee is either tucked in or tied and knotted. Also, don’t forget to accessorize!

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