"One shoe can change your life"

Krista Landrum

Savannah College of Art and Design Fashion Design student with a Fashion Marketing and Management minor.

Krista's house is the type of place that you automatically feel very at home in. The decorating is minimal but obviously very carefully thought out. A couple things I loved were her collection of cute little storage boxes, her gorgeous bed frame and her creative idea for displaying and hanging her necklaces and clutches from the wall. Oh, and this cute little plaque that was above her closet door with a quote from Cinderella! "I am a Fashion Design Major with Fashion Marketing and Management Major. I don’t really know specifically who I want to work for when I am finished but I want to work for a company or brand as a designer. I also like the idea of being a technical designer or working on patterns. Pattern making is kind of where I’m leaning to right now. I really like making patterns and a lot of other design majors don't want to get into that. I like that you have to be really precise with it. You have to be able to transform a two dimensional object into a three-dimensional object. You are constantly going back and forth from how should it look in the 3-D form to how do I represent that in a two dimensional flat pattern. It’s nice when you have worked really hard on a pattern and you start sewing it and it works out just how you’ve planned it to. I can see my self working at Donna Karan specifically in DKNY. Maybe even J. Crew or for someone like Chris Benz – that would be fun. I don’t really have a style icon. I kind of go more towards trends and what looks good for me. I like to wear what looks good on me as opposed to what everyone else likes. I don’t like the whole sheer trend but I really like all the bright colors I am seeing right now, and I am always a big fan of prints. I like florals – I just love prints. I usually find a lot of my inspiration for outfits online. I look on a lot of different fashion blogs. There are a couple of plus size fashion blogs that I look at that are really good, like Saks in the City – that’s a really good one.  I also look at lookbook.nu, but I think everyone does that. I’ve been looking at Fashion Notes, it’s a fashion blog that talks about current things in fashion, whats new in the fashion world, new ad campaigns – that kinda stuff. I look at Frisky all the time. Frisky is a blog that talks about a lot of different things, including relationships and fashion.

My style tends to be a little bit more classic. I love this black blazer I’m wearing and more simple pieces but then I’ll wear a crazy floral print with it. I want to make sure it fits good and that its sleek and easy to wear. I don’t really wear a lot of accessories because I don’t want to have to deal with them throughout the day, so I just keep it low-key. During the day I usually wear jeans, Sperry’s and this flannel shirt I have with ruffles around the neck. Definitely a comfortable shirt with jeans no matter what. When I go out I usually do heels- generally black heels but I have this purple suede pair of BCBG heels that I wear all the time. They are BCBGeneration, I got them at T. J. Maxx. Sometimes I wear a dressy top and jeans or I have this red leopard print pencil skirt that I pair with a cardigan. My new favorite item is my cross-body Nine West bag that I just got at Belk. I love BCBG heels. I usually get them at T.J. Maxx.  I do the majority of my shopping at T.J. Maxx they cary B. Makowsky purses, I have a couple of them. I look for shoes on DSW.com they have lots of great shoes. I also am a huge Michael Kors fan – I have a Michael Kors bomber jacket, its my favorite and I like Cynthia Rowley.

Alexander McQueen has always been a favorite of mine. I think Sarah Burton is designing for them right now. I like the level of creativity and the execution of the design. Its always a fantastical type of thing to see. It’s a standard that a lot of designers put them selves to. I love it, I think its beautiful. It’s a story with creative, whimsical flair that’s always seen from the Alexander McQueen line. I like Carolina Herrera because she’s so feminine and I really like her ads. And Marc Jacobs, his actual line. Lately, I’ve been really interested in Chris Benz. He came here to SCAD for the Style Mentor lab and before hand I hadn’t really seen any of his stuff but the more I’ve seen it the more I like it. His aesthetic is feminine and kind of artsy.

For makeup I use Clinque and Lancome. I use a basic face powder and a Lancome quad, which is three different shades of purple eye shadow. I use the pot eye-liner by Bobbi Brown and always do a winged line on my lid. I use Nanette Lepore perfume and I straighten my hair every day. Deep conditioning is a common thing for me. I’m a really big fan of Butterfly Flower by Bath and Body works. I couldn’t live without my face powder or my eye-liner."

-as told to sku