Who What Wear with Hillary Kerr: Amy Smilovic, Founder of Tibi, Gives a Style Master Class Through Her Lens of Creative Pragmatism

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4.7 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Amy Smilovic founded the women's luxury brand Tibi in 1997, and over the years, she's honed her distinctive brand identity and coined a phrase for her design philosophy: creative pragmatism. If you're a creative pragmatist like Smilovic, you find your style rooted in creative expression and utility, and you feel at home in an aesthetic that is at once chill, modern, and classic. Written from the point of view that style can indeed be learned, her book The Creative Pragmatist details all of her guiding principles, from how to style colors and prints in a way that feels modern to how to pick basics that aren't, well, basic. Smilovic has developed a highly analytical approach to making outfits look effortless, and she's breaking down her greatest and most useful style tips for us this week.

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1:06.8	visit eBay.com for terms. Welcome to Who up where with Hillary Kerr, your direct line to the designers, stylists, beauty experts, editors, and tastemakers who are shaping the ever-evolving world of fashion. This week who what wears editor and
1:36.2	chief Kat Collins sits down with Amy Smylevick, the founder and creative director of one of
1:42.4	our all-time favorite brands, Tibby.
1:45.0	Since Tibby's inception in the late 90s, Amy has solidified her design and styling
1:51.0	philosophy so distinctively that she's actually coined a phrase for it
1:55.9	and written a book on it called The Creative Pragmatis and the aesthetic lies at the intersection of chill, modern, and classic.
2:06.0	But, even if that's not your vibe, Amy's deeply intellectual understanding of developing your personal style
2:13.6	will no doubt be applicable to your own wardrobe.
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