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wardrobe_remix is TWO YEARS OLD today!

and it all started with this photo:

blue and orange (aka, day one)

which was the first official wardrobe_remix photo i took! it was taken on september 13, 2005, in my old loft apartment, in brooklyn, new york. i was in my second semester of school at parsons, studying fashion design.

i was inspired by the occasional (at that time) but lovely street fashion/personal style spreads in fashion magazines, hel-looks, and japanese fashion mags/books like fruits. i started taking my photo using the self-timer on my digital camera, or with the help of my husband, peter, i started posting them in my blog and voila! the rest is history!

for the record: being two years old (a mere toddler!) means it actually predates much of the other DIY street fashion-type communities that have sprung to life in the past couple of years…and many of the street fashion blogs too! what a cool couple of years have ensued! so much street style and personal style to now see and celebrate, across the web and and across the world! it’s a beautiful thing.

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two years have gone by, and so much has happened for wardrobe_remix! the idea and the word really got around!

in the past two years, wardrobe_remix has spawned a quarterly magazine article. it was featured on current TV, in WWD, and a bunch of other pieces of press, both online and offline. SO AWESOME, really!

so many other people have joined me along the way! as of this second, there are 5,394 members of the group, and many more just watching! hello! *waves*

LET ME SHOW YOU THEM., madam0wl, luckyolive, marquise, and persephassa were amongst the first wardrobe_remix(ers) to join me…and they are still posting today. thank you to ALL the early adopters! from the very beginning, they started posting their photos and descriptions in their blogs, and because of that, they helped to spread the word about the community. YOU (you mentioned above, and many more, including those of you who are reading!) really helped to make it take off, and i’m indebted to you for that!

big warm hugs and a ton of thanks goes to my girl, just jenny who i brought on sometime in the first year to help me moderate the group. you are the most awesome person in the world, jenny. period! :)

and, really, honestly, much love and thanks goes to you ALL! thanks for merely being interested in the group, for watching it, for participating (if you do!) and for sharing yourselves and your looks with with world. thanks for being inspirational, stylish, brave, intelligent, artful, unique, and above all, YOU. that’s what this group is all about…celebrating YOUR amazing expression of personal style, whatever that may be.

remember: it’s not what you wear, but how you wear it. and you wear it well!

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September 13 2007 | Posted in wardrobe_remix

Comments

18 total remarks on this post.

  1. September 13 2007 at 12:59 pm

    jennine

    holy smokes! 2 years! horray!
    you are such an inspiration tricia!
    : )


  2. September 13 2007 at 2:02 pm

    Lady Julianne Eternity

    Thank you for creating and running such an wonderful project! I’ve never been able to participate (I don’t own a camera, all the photos I take for my blog are taken in advance of posts – sometimes weeks – using my parents’ camera) but I have been enjoying the group for a long time and it provides great inspiration.


  3. September 13 2007 at 2:49 pm

    natalie

    Congrats Tricia! xoxo


  4. September 13 2007 at 3:01 pm

    Eema

    I’ve been stalking you from lj, then here and now flickr & of course wardrobe _remix. reading your post[s] make me not afraid to wear bright colors!

    Now I’m a proud owner of a pair bright lime green jazz sneakers with red polkadots laces [ and not afraid to wear it,walk in it ].

    Thank you!
    &
    Much love!


  5. September 13 2007 at 3:37 pm

    Amber

    Happy birthday W_R and congrats Tricia for all your success with it!


  6. September 13 2007 at 4:14 pm

    morgan

    awww congratulations! i finally joined flickr the other week exclusively for wardrobe_remix – it’s a really great thing. keep up the radness!


  7. September 13 2007 at 6:04 pm

    elissa

    Congrats! Love browsing the group … and that first outfit is really cute, by the way. :)


  8. September 13 2007 at 6:33 pm

    tricia

    thanks all!! :D


  9. September 13 2007 at 8:46 pm

    jennifer

    my wardrobe_remixers, let me show you them!

    happy bday, w_r. maybe when sixth grade ain’t so hectic i can post a little more!


  10. September 13 2007 at 10:45 pm

    Prêt-à-Porter Prostitute

    congrats!
    -h


  11. September 14 2007 at 6:43 am

    Wendy

    Congrats, Tricia!!
    You’ve created a wonderful group with very interesting and friendly members!
    I really enjoy being a part of it! :-)


  12. September 14 2007 at 10:48 am

    Christy

    Hooray, congratulations, and thanks! I’ve been posting to w_r for eight or nine months now and I love it so much. I’m so glad such a creative and supportive place exists.


  13. September 14 2007 at 11:40 am

    Sarah/Sherbet Tone

    Congratulations, Tricia! You have created and maintained such an amazing community with such diverse members. And done such a superb job of moderating it! (And it’s just terribly fun.)


  14. September 14 2007 at 12:38 pm

    vintagevixxen

    I have been a fan for a month or so and just yesterday got it together and posted on wr. The site and the fabulous gals posting on it have been such an inspiration. There is so much positive energy around it all.
    Thanks so much Tricia!


  15. September 14 2007 at 2:58 pm

    madam0wl

    I thought it was such a good idea from the beginning and it has been a lot of fun. I’ve even learned quite a bit… my “eye” for elements & principles of design has improved, and my previously waning interest in clothing was reborn. You are awesome! As are the majority of remixers. Thanks again.


  16. September 16 2007 at 9:02 pm

    Miss Shoo

    Congrats, 2 years is a lovely milestone!

    Wardrobe_remix is always a visual feast, so many different personalities expressed through their clothes. One day I’ll gather-up the nerve to submit to it jajajaja!


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  18. September 17 2007 at 9:33 pm

    Melissa

    Congratulations, Tricia! Thank you for creating a forum that encourages such inspiration and originality. It gives me the inspiration to pull what I like from my closet with confidence – something that was a long time coming. It is a visual feast! So thank you for that. :)