Why Social Media Makes It Harder to Find Your Style with Mandy Lee
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Mandy Lee joins Amy Chang to discuss how social media impacts personal style and the challenges it creates in developing an authentic fashion identity.
Social media gives us endless fashion inspiration, so why is it making personal style harder to find? Fashion trend forecaster Mandy Lee, known online as @oldloserinbrooklyn, joins Amy Chang to unpack why fear of looking wrong, being “cringe,” or changing in public can keep us from developing a style that actually feels like our own. Mandy explains why people online increasingly dress alike, even when real life remains much more diverse, and how TikTok and Instagram can turn aesthetics into rigid rulebooks. Amy and Mandy explore trending topics like why personal style requires vulnerability, experimentation and the willingness to make mistakes. They also discuss how politics, economics and regional culture shape fashion; why copying an aesthetic isn’t the same as developing taste; clean-girl fatigue and the return of indie sleaze; Pinterest versus genuine trend forecasting; accelerating trend cycles; and how internet culture is changing beauty and body standards. Mandy’s most practical advice is surprisingly simple: stop shopping. Wear what is already in your closet, photograph your outfits and pay attention to what you naturally repeat. That process can reveal what you genuinely…
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