The Elongated Pantheon: A Field Guide to the Big Cats of Poeticize Your Presence
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The Elongated Pantheon: A Field Guide to the Big Cats of Poeticize Your Presence

We’ve compared striking people to big cats for centuries — Cleopatra as lioness of the Nile, Grace Jones stalking the stage like a puma, Dali’s muses gliding through his salons with panther poise. It’s not just grace or symmetry; it’s the charge they bring to space. Some bodies move as if the laws of physics…

What Is a Personal Brand (And Why It’s Not What You Think)
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What Is a Personal Brand (And Why It’s Not What You Think)

When most people hear personal brand, they picture a slick logo, a curated colour palette, or a polished LinkedIn banner. But the truth is, your personal brand is far simpler—and infinitely more powerful—than any of that. Your personal brand is how people experience you. It’s the impression that lingers after the meeting ends, the atmosphere…

Your Personal Architecture: A Framework for Style Harmony – PART ONE
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Your Personal Architecture: A Framework for Style Harmony – PART ONE

What is Personal Architecture? Your Personal Architecture is the visual pattern your body creates in space –it’s about how your physicality is perceived in terms of length, breadth, angularity and scale. It isn’t about zooming in on a single feature, such as “shoulder width”. Literal dimensions like height and width contribute to your presence, but…

The Delicate Silhouette ID
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The Delicate Silhouette ID

A deep dive into the Delicate Silhouette ID DELICATE is one of the 7 distinct Silhouette Identities in the Poeticize Your Presence system, and while most people have one dominant type, you may also discover secondary—or even tertiary—Silhouette Identities that complete your unique style blueprint. It’s a fine-boned, smaller-scale silhouette with a whisper-light presence. What…

Uniform or Novelty? What’s Your Style
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Uniform or Novelty? What’s Your Style

When it comes to getting dressed, there’s no one-size-fits-all approach. Yet so much style advice assumes we all want the same thing: variety, trends, and constantly evolving wardrobes. But the truth is, people have fundamentally different relationships with their clothing choices. Some of us thrive on repetition and consistency. Others need constant change and visual…

Back to Black 🖤
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Back to Black 🖤

This post is called “Back to Black” because I’ve returned to wearing black. Well, to be more accurate, I never left…..(more on that below). It’s also a nod to one of my favourite songs by the beautiful talent that was Amy Winehouse. Black was something of a signature colour for Amy —her hair, her ever-present…

New service alert: For people who want their colour palette to work as hard as they do!

New service alert: For people who want their colour palette to work as hard as they do!

Introducing: The 1:1 Colour Integration + Wardrobe Reset. This deluxe Colour Concierge service is more than a palette — it’s a recalibration. It bridges the gap between knowing your ideal colours and living them. This innovative new service includes a guided wardrobe cleanse, where we identify which items in your closet are draining your presence…

The Celestial Silhouette ID
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The Celestial Silhouette ID

CELESTIAL is one of the 7 distinct Silhouette Identities in the Poeticize Your Presence system, and while most people have one dominant type, you may also discover secondary—or even tertiary—Silhouette Identities that complete your unique style blueprint. A deep dive into the Celestial ID It’s an elongated, sinuous silhouette with softly sculpted curves — like…

Introducing Midnight Summer
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Introducing Midnight Summer

Soft. Smokey. Deep….. Midnight Summer has the depth typically associated with Winter, but also possesses the soft, gentle chroma associated with Summer. Are you unsure whether you truly belong to Winter or Summer? Do you crave softness in your colours — but find that the traditional Summer palettes (like those from Sci/Art or similar systems)…

Personal Style as Memory: How Memory and Personal Aesthetic Intersect
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Personal Style as Memory: How Memory and Personal Aesthetic Intersect

Style isn’t necessarily invented. Maybe sometimes it’s simply remembered. When someone dresses well, it often has less to do with rules and more to do with what they remember, honour, or instinctively return to. Even on the runway, we mainly see a fresh take on an old style — a never-ending recycling of a former…