Blog Spotlight: Chastity of The Curvy Girls Guide to Style.

Monday, July 26, 2010

Hello luvs, can you believe it? It’s time for the 10th installment of the blog spotlight series. For the benefit of new readers to this blog new I will say I started the blog spotlight because being a full time English student, managing this blog, and writing for a online magazine I can not give you all the “skinny” on fat fashion. There are many, many blogs out there. Many of which that I read that cover a lot of things that I do not. As oppose to just featuring bloggers on my blog roll I thought it would be a good thing to not only link you to the blog but, give you a glimpse into the person behind the blog.
So allow me to introduce you to Chastity Garner , the 29 year old blogger and image consultant behind The Curvy Girls Guide to Style.


I would love to give your more information on Chastity myself, but her bio says it all!.
Academic by mind and fashionista by heart, Chastity Garner is originally from Brunswick, GA and has spent just under a decade in Atlanta, GA. She gained a Master of Public Administration Degree from Kennesaw State University.  Chastity opened up Garner Style to not only offer image consulting services to plus size women, but to the boutiques that serve them. After styling woman after woman, who had mountains of questions about style for the full figured women this lead to the start of her blog, “The Curvy Girl’s Guide to Style,” which eventually was turned into a book sharing the same title.
My Favorite Quote from Chastity was, "I'm really not into the polices of fatshion or the whole fat identification thing.  I am just me, Chastity Garner, fat or not, tall or not, big feet or not.  I am just me..Im not into the whole labels thing.  If you want to call me fat, that's fine, but the label means nothing to me". 
You'll have to click read more to see the rest! 





What I Wore to the Brooklyn Museum Fashion Show

Friday, July 2, 2010

Last week I attended the Fashion show at the Brooklyn Museum and I had a great time. Here is what I wore.  It's pretty much the same as the outfit from the post here, but with different color shorts and a jazzed up top.  The shirt I wore is a top I had replicated and made for me by Two String Jane. I saw Ciara wear the $615 silk and sequin Ashish top in her basic instinct video and fell in love with it, but there were two problems. One, I couldn't afford it and two I knew it wouldn't fit me. I approached Alyssa with the idea and she told me she could hand stud the shirt for $72 including the $11 for the Asos Sub Tee and the $6 Asos shipping. The shirt is very delicate, but over all I'm happy with it.












Here is an up close shot of the ring I wore.  It's a stretch ring from Re/dress. 




Here is a picture of me and Tennille of naKiMuli after the fashion show.


I'm going to do a post with all of the looks from the fashion show right after this; I just didn't want this to be to long. 

After the fashion show we had cuban food.






Selina, the editor of Manik Magazine 

Outfit: Shirt - Two String Jane, Shorts - Torrid, Boots - Urban Outfitters, Vest - Gifted from TJ Max and Marshalls, Sun Glasses and Handband - Forever21, Earrings - $0.99 jewelry store in Manhattan, Ring - Re/Dress, Bracelets - naKiMuli