NOV 18th, 2025
Everything is Fashion!
VOL. 014
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On a gloomy day in late-august of this year, my friend Luciana and I were out on one of out usual ‘errand-running’ walks. She needed a sofa for a new place, and I some fresh air.
Freshly graduated and each moving out of our current flats it was a season of ‘goodbyes’ for us both. As a girl from California, this flat had been her first real home in London. It was a space that had allowed her to grow, create, and find friendship and safety in a new city. It had naturally become an incredibly special space. Luciana asked if I would kindly photograph her in her bedroom before she began packing everything away. She wanted a series of images to remember the space and the memories it held.
I was immediately on board and flattered that she had requested me for this deeply personal project.
Throughout the time that Luci and I had been ‘30-second-away’ neighbours (literally) I’d spent many hours in her home and fostered great adoration for her approach to decoration. Sense of style runs through Luci’s veins and leaves an imprint on everything she touches, from the door to her bathroom (pink cursive sign reading ‘everyone poops’) to her immaculately accessorised handbag, to the backs of the dining room table chairs which are usually draped in some manner of lace, doily, or ribbon. Luci has this magical way of ‘Luci-fying’ absolutely anything and everything.
This got me thinking. Since I write about fashion and clothes, I have come to realise that the way we decorate and adorn our homes is part of the same intention when it comes to what we choose to wear.
To cover one’s walls with photographs that capture special memories is not dissimilar to wearing that piece of jewellery that was handed down by a family member, or that hat you bought on holiday with your best friends. What it comes down to is storytelling. Dressing and adorning our bodies is a way to communicate and explore who we are, and interior decoration is exactly the same. The colour you decide to paint your kitchen and the way you organise your perfumes says just as much about you as the style of shoe you choose to wear or your selection of winter coat. It all comes from our inner creativity and human need to express ourselves. It is what Mary Oliver describes as ‘that wild, silky part of ourselves’.
Throughout the time that I have known and grown close to Luciana, I have been unflaggingly inspired by her artistic intricacies and impeccable attention to detail. What is most admirable about her approach to design is her natural ability to decorate in a truly organic way. No part of Luci’s bedroom feels staged, overthought, or inauthentic. Her room is as beautiful as it is because it is a space in which she has allowed herself total and utter creative freedom. Similarly to our individual fashion sense, if one’s wardrobe is curated organically and unabashedly, it grows to become a collection of garments that is a natural reflection of the wearer.
Let me attempt to paint you a picture of Luci’s room. Whilst situated on the ground floor of a block of flats in South London, this home maintains the imagination and delightful magic of being nestled in a tower overlooking an enchanted garden. The walls are covered head-to-toe with posters, Polaroids, postcards, magazine cutouts, concert tickets, and cast-off artwork from our university printing studios. Each piece communicates a tiny message of who Luci is and her life journey: the people she cares for, the places she has been, and the ones she wants to visit.
A floor length secondhand mirror sits propped against the wall and a few of her most cherished dresses are hanging from the built-in shelving implying that she may need an outfit change at a moments notice.
Small tidy stacks of tastefully curated fashion books pile up next to her wardrobe, and her little library of celebrity biographies are neatly lined up on the windowsill beside her bed.
The finer details are of equal whimsy. The small pink satin ribbons tied to the back of her desk chair, the handmade envelope filled with love letters, and the tiny star shaped stickers that fill the gaps between photobooth strips. You could spend hours in this room and still not have noticed every little charm.
This space is an affectionate homage to its occupant and tell a story of a girl who loves her friends, misses her family, plays dress-up, and listens to pop-music. The space is an inimitable walk-in memory box and should be a blueprint for us all.
This is not to say we should all take up every single inch of wall space with posters torn from Vogue, and hang vintage prom dresses from the rafters but we should take notes on Luci’s approach towards design.
Adopting the attitude that personal sense of style exceeds the clothes that we put on our backs and can be translated into the books we display on our shelves and the fragrance of candle we burn in the evenings.
Everything is fashion! Let your home scream your name and become a 3-dimensional scrapbook of who you are. Our spaces should be playful and ever changing, just like our fashion sense.
Unlike the clothes we pick to wear out the door each day, our homes are only to be seen by select people. Therefore, they are the most intimate and private outlet for us to truly be who we are. Our private spaces are free from opinion or judgement and ours to dress and adorn in the same way our bodies are.
Freshly graduated and each moving out of our current flats it was a season of ‘goodbyes’ for us both. As a girl from California, this flat had been her first real home in London. It was a space that had allowed her to grow, create, and find friendship and safety in a new city. It had naturally become an incredibly special space. Luciana asked if I would kindly photograph her in her bedroom before she began packing everything away. She wanted a series of images to remember the space and the memories it held.
I was immediately on board and flattered that she had requested me for this deeply personal project.
Throughout the time that Luci and I had been ‘30-second-away’ neighbours (literally) I’d spent many hours in her home and fostered great adoration for her approach to decoration. Sense of style runs through Luci’s veins and leaves an imprint on everything she touches, from the door to her bathroom (pink cursive sign reading ‘everyone poops’) to her immaculately accessorised handbag, to the backs of the dining room table chairs which are usually draped in some manner of lace, doily, or ribbon. Luci has this magical way of ‘Luci-fying’ absolutely anything and everything.
This got me thinking. Since I write about fashion and clothes, I have come to realise that the way we decorate and adorn our homes is part of the same intention when it comes to what we choose to wear.
To cover one’s walls with photographs that capture special memories is not dissimilar to wearing that piece of jewellery that was handed down by a family member, or that hat you bought on holiday with your best friends. What it comes down to is storytelling. Dressing and adorning our bodies is a way to communicate and explore who we are, and interior decoration is exactly the same. The colour you decide to paint your kitchen and the way you organise your perfumes says just as much about you as the style of shoe you choose to wear or your selection of winter coat. It all comes from our inner creativity and human need to express ourselves. It is what Mary Oliver describes as ‘that wild, silky part of ourselves’.
Throughout the time that I have known and grown close to Luciana, I have been unflaggingly inspired by her artistic intricacies and impeccable attention to detail. What is most admirable about her approach to design is her natural ability to decorate in a truly organic way. No part of Luci’s bedroom feels staged, overthought, or inauthentic. Her room is as beautiful as it is because it is a space in which she has allowed herself total and utter creative freedom. Similarly to our individual fashion sense, if one’s wardrobe is curated organically and unabashedly, it grows to become a collection of garments that is a natural reflection of the wearer.
Let me attempt to paint you a picture of Luci’s room. Whilst situated on the ground floor of a block of flats in South London, this home maintains the imagination and delightful magic of being nestled in a tower overlooking an enchanted garden. The walls are covered head-to-toe with posters, Polaroids, postcards, magazine cutouts, concert tickets, and cast-off artwork from our university printing studios. Each piece communicates a tiny message of who Luci is and her life journey: the people she cares for, the places she has been, and the ones she wants to visit.
A floor length secondhand mirror sits propped against the wall and a few of her most cherished dresses are hanging from the built-in shelving implying that she may need an outfit change at a moments notice.
Small tidy stacks of tastefully curated fashion books pile up next to her wardrobe, and her little library of celebrity biographies are neatly lined up on the windowsill beside her bed.
The finer details are of equal whimsy. The small pink satin ribbons tied to the back of her desk chair, the handmade envelope filled with love letters, and the tiny star shaped stickers that fill the gaps between photobooth strips. You could spend hours in this room and still not have noticed every little charm.
This space is an affectionate homage to its occupant and tell a story of a girl who loves her friends, misses her family, plays dress-up, and listens to pop-music. The space is an inimitable walk-in memory box and should be a blueprint for us all.
This is not to say we should all take up every single inch of wall space with posters torn from Vogue, and hang vintage prom dresses from the rafters but we should take notes on Luci’s approach towards design.
Adopting the attitude that personal sense of style exceeds the clothes that we put on our backs and can be translated into the books we display on our shelves and the fragrance of candle we burn in the evenings.
Everything is fashion! Let your home scream your name and become a 3-dimensional scrapbook of who you are. Our spaces should be playful and ever changing, just like our fashion sense.
Unlike the clothes we pick to wear out the door each day, our homes are only to be seen by select people. Therefore, they are the most intimate and private outlet for us to truly be who we are. Our private spaces are free from opinion or judgement and ours to dress and adorn in the same way our bodies are.