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…

What Do (or did) Anna Wintour, Bob Marley, Donald Trump, Andy Warhol, Macy Gray, Amy Winehouse, Marge Simpson, Don King and Marilyn Monroe All Have in Common?

What Do (or did) Anna Wintour, Bob Marley, Donald Trump, Andy Warhol, Macy Gray, Amy Winehouse, Marge Simpson, Don King and Marilyn Monroe All Have in Common?

They each have – or  had  – an Iconic Hairstyle. A hairdo so distinctive, so inseparable from their identity, that it became a visual shorthand for who they are.  Their hair is like a logo or a calling-card. What is an Iconic Hairstyle? An iconic hairstyle is more than just a look — it’s a…

Style Energy Decoded: Icons & Archetypes | Drew Barrymore
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Style Energy Decoded: Icons & Archetypes | Drew Barrymore

What makes Drew Barrymore so beloved – beyond the Hollywood lineage and talk show tears? At Poeticize Your Presence we decode the energetic signature beneath someone’s style. Drew’s Style Energy archetype blend is — the Jester, with strong undercurrents of both the Innocent and the Mystic. Primary Style Energy: The Jester Why? Drew leads with…

Shadow Tones and Secret Harmonies
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Shadow Tones and Secret Harmonies

There are certain colours that aren’t just flattering — they actually belong to you.  Because they already exist in your face (and body, and hair, and eyes….) These are sometimes referred to as Body Harmony Colours, and  include your natural hair colour and eye colour, the colour of your gums and palms. Within the broad…

Celebrity Style Energy Roast: Nicole Kidman
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Celebrity Style Energy Roast: Nicole Kidman

Primary Style Energy: Mystic Haunting, cool, always slightly out of reach. Even her smile looks like it’s floating in fog. Secondary: Queen Nicole is extraordinarily elegant. When she steps into power, it’s silent but immense. You don’t see it coming — it just is. Undercurrent: Alchemist She’s transformed her look again and again — but…

Finally! A style & colour system that actually honours your uniqueness….
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Finally! A style & colour system that actually honours your uniqueness….

So, what exactly is Poeticize Your Presence and how’s it different from all the other systems out there? Well, it was inspired in part by my own style journey. By my lingering feeling that the style, body geometry and colour analysis systems that already existed mainly made me feel hemmed in and a bit diminished,…

The Outlaw / Rebel Style Energy Archetype.
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The Outlaw / Rebel Style Energy Archetype.

Often legendary.  Always unforgettable. Disruptive. Defiant. Unapologetically free. In the Poeticize Your Presence system, your Style Energy archetype is drawn  from Jungian archetypes and isn’t about what you wear — it’s about who you are. It’s the atmosphere you create, the mood you carry, the flavour that lingers after you’ve gone.  And when you dress…

Poeticize Your Presence: A Family Tradition
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Poeticize Your Presence: A Family Tradition

This is my grandfather (centre), photographed in 1943 with Eleanor Roosevelt. He had travelled from Nigeria to America to pursue his dream of earning a degree from Columbia University — a bold, near-impossible goal at the time. His elders advised him to dress modestly, to blend in, to avoid drawing attention in a new and…

Why literature teaches us to read outfits.
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Why literature teaches us to read outfits.

[Clothes are our social shells; projections of our inner selves; indications of wealth and status. From an early age literature teaches us how to read an outfit, beginning with the children’s fairy stories where we learn to recognise the wicked witch by her black robes. In a novel, a beautifully described outfit can be used–…