![]() ![]() It celebrates stepping into your own power, owning your style, finding yourself, and being unafraid to share it with the world. ![]() ![]() The Power of Style is an impactful book that urges individuals to claim their own power through the medium of fashion, whether anyone else gets it or not. The book also illustrates how creativity can form in the margins though Black hair has been maligned and prohibited throughout history, the example of a man braiding his hair in the shape of the Microsoft Windows logo feels like a symbol of lightness and possibility. In his book, Allaire makes a compelling argument that it does, highlighting traditional styles such as Indigenous ribbon work and colourful hijabs that belong to the earthly realm but also inspire the lucid dreams fashion is meant to. ![]() Of course, fashion and beauty can serve a greater purpose than being visually satisfying, I thought, but does it necessarily matter? It is a site for dreaming with reckless abandon, a funhouse mirror that reflects one not exactly as they are but how they want to be. In the introduction to his debut book, The Power of Style (Annick Press), Vogue fashion and style writer Christian Allaire asks, “Can fashion or beauty serve a greater purpose than just being visually satisfying?” To me, fashion has always been a liminal space-a gravity-free interzone where lawlessness coincides with infinite possibility. ![]()
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