Vanguard

Vanessa Rosales is a fashion writer with an acute sensibility to spot trends, analyze them and criticize them in the most constructive way. Her frustration on how Colombians perceive fashion and aesthetic led her create a portal with an international point of view: Vanguard 'the referee of style'. Here she opens minds, teaches and debates different style issues from the Colombian scene.

I was called in by Vanessa to be part of Vanguard three weeks back. She arrived one morning to my apartment accompanied by Tatiana Camacho, the photographer. After a tour of the house and meeting Miss. Romeo we started to snap away some outfits they had asked me to pick out. It was so fun, we chatted away and many subjects came up, but what we most talked about was the loudness of my style and how I coped with it when I came back from Italy. As you know and I've said many times for me 'more is more' I'm a maximalist, kitsch 80s lover, this for some in Colombia is not well perceived being a conservative culture and all, there are good and bad stares. Some may think it is weird, showoff-y, intimidating  and repelling, specially this last one. Latin girls tend to dress for the man, I dress for my self I may attract the fashion crowd but scare the men away.
Do I care? No. After all there will ones that wont be scared, dare and stay.

Thankyou Vanessa and Tatiana, it was a marvelous afternoon and a lovely piece.
The article and more pictures: HERE

http://vanguardstyle.com/