The Personal Journey of Defining Your Style with Stylist Allison Bornstein
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Cameron Oaks Rogers
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with stylist, closet therapist, and wardrobe specialist Allison Bornstein to talk about all things style and the emotional significance of what we wear. We discuss the identity shift that comes with motherhood and how style fits into that, Allison’s wild and experimental fashion sense as a child, and how both of our mothers have influenced our style journeys to this day. Allison takes us through her coined “three word method” and defines my three words, she explains why it’s okay to look and dress like you care, and we discuss how closet clean-outs and the kind of work she does is deeply therapeutic and personal.
Key Takeaway / Points:
- Why fashion and style are not frivolous
- The identity shift that comes with motherhood and how style fits into that
- Allison’s wild and experimental style as a child
- The fear of other parents perceiving you and your children
- How our mothers’ relationships with fashion influenced us
- Allison’s trajectory in fashion school and how she grew her business
- Allison’s “three word method” and defining my three words
- Why it’s okay to dress and look like you care
- Why closet clean-outs are emotional processes
- How clothes are meant to fit us and we are not meant to “fit” our clothes
- On our authentic selves versus our social media personas
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a deer media production buckle up FF fan because this is a great one and |
| 0:07.4 | really one that gave me so many actual and tangible pieces of advice but really like reconfiguring |
| 0:16.4 | the way I look and aspect of my life. And that is style. Today we are joined by Alison Bornstein |
| 0:23.3 | who you probably have seen on TikTok. If you're on TikTok she owns my 4U page, which I told her. |
| 0:29.0 | And I love it because I love her videos. She is a closet therapist, a stylist who works with |
| 0:36.0 | a variety of women and she has coined this three word method, which is a theory that everyone |
| 0:42.9 | style can be synthesized into three adjectives and words that either describe their style as it is |
| 0:48.4 | or that guide their style to its pinnacle form. So we get into her upbringing and relationship |
| 0:54.1 | with clothing and fashion as a child, how that has impacted her as an adult, the evolution |
| 1:00.1 | of her career. And then really right now where she stands with this social media presence, |
| 1:05.9 | but also like what does this three word method mean? Why is this important? Because fashion and |
| 1:11.6 | style is so much more than the like surface level that I think many of us view it as. And we dive |
| 1:18.4 | into my relationship with fashion and clothing and we coin my three words, which I'm now taking |
| 1:24.8 | with me every time I get dressed and shop. And I just think that this is such a great episode and |
| 1:31.5 | I love her. So we've all made a new friend here. So without further ado, here is Alison. |
| 1:48.4 | I'm so excited to have you on. I'm so excited to be on the end. I've been following you for a while |
| 2:05.6 | and I want to dive into like everything when you started, when you're take talk through all of this, |
| 2:10.3 | but style is something that I'm navigating and we'll get into this. And my listeners know that |
| 2:17.3 | I'm trying to figure out what my style is who I am. I've always kind of found it a little confusing |
| 2:23.2 | and then after becoming a mom, I felt this like pressure to be someone that I inherently wasn't |
| 2:28.6 | in a sense. Yeah. And I really want to get into how you got to where you are today, the three word |
| 2:36.2 | method work on my three words. Yes, yes. Yeah, because I also have a lot that like I want to kind of |
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