My very first fashion magazine ever was Harper’s Bazaar US - September 2004, with Gisele Bündchen on the cover.
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I bought it after watching Taxi (I love Queen Latifah, so… LOL) back in high school. Gisele was in the movie, and I was like, “Damn, this woman is unreal!”
Funny thing is, I wasn’t even into fashion at all at that time. But once I flipped through that issue, something just clicked.
Then I saw this page
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Antlers on her head, and somehow… it screamed wearable art, not Halloween costume.
I didn’t even fully understand why, but I was hooked.
It wasn’t just clothes.
It was fantasy.
It was storytelling.
It was art and I was all in.
That was the moment I started realizing how fashion could make you fantasize about beauty, through clothes, through styling, through the creative process behind it, through the whole visual universe.
I didn’t even know the names at that time, the model, the photographer, the stylist, the designer, the makeup artist. But I knew whatever this was, I wanted more of it.
Kinda dramatic, but yeah... that one issue really changed the way I see things. 😂
And that’s how the obsession slowly began.
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