{"id":132,"date":"2024-12-10T17:31:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T17:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journalists.org.uk\/jessica-gardiner\/?page_id=132"},"modified":"2025-05-15T01:13:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T00:13:05","slug":"selling-style-does-personal-taste-still-exist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/journalists.org.uk\/jessica-gardiner\/selling-style-does-personal-taste-still-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"Selling Style; Does personal taste still exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Opinion<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Jessica Gardiner<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

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Old money style, Jane Birkin bag charms, clean girls, indie sleaze revival, tomato girl core? Does anyone actually wear what they want to anymore, or has social media completely killed off any sense of genuine authenticity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019ve been online in the past few years you\u2019ll have seen the microtrend supercomputer that is TikTok. I know what you\u2019re thinking, it\u2019s just another trend nobody\u2019s actually committing to cottage-core full time. But with the insane rate and quantity of new microtrends surfacing, it can be hard to know where an online niche ends and personal style begins. I mean think about it, when was the last time you saw somebody who has a true personal style? Something that makes them unique, a signature item of clothing they\u2019ve been wearing for years, or a particularly wacky makeup look that’s their to go to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are living through a personal style drought, style is the newest, hottest commodification. Rather than curating fashion taste over years, taking inspiration from your own life; music, art, culture, we\u2019re buying a personality, it\u2019s premade to go, just add water! Take for example this obsession over Hermes Birkin bags, it\u2019s the ultimate symbol of wealth to some, but people get slammed for not using their Birkins the way \u2018Jane Birkin would have\u2019. So this trend of accessorising bags with pre-made bag charms has surfaced. But people aren\u2019t using charms they have collected over the years from travel or gifts, they\u2019re brand new, straight-out-of-the-plastic bag charms. A premade, bought, curated, display of personality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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@natashahmedx<\/a>

trinkification is the epitome of girlhood #janebirkin<\/a> #janebirkinify<\/a> #girlhood<\/a> <\/p> \u266c Dominic x Brazil Declan – iMi\ud83e\udee7<\/a> <\/section> <\/blockquote>