Our Stylist Asked to See Our Closets… We Weren’t Ready π | Fashion Travel Show BTS | Amsterdam
We're creating Your Vacation Stylistβa travel fashion show exploring identity, culture, and style through the lens of Black travel. In Part 2, professional stylist Carmen (@charmedbycarmen) gave us homework: dive into our closets and upload pieces to her styling portal. What we found? CHAOS.
This is Part 2 of our pre-production series documenting the creation of our fashion travel show, Your Vacation Stylist.
The Assignment: Pick items from our closets that represent our style, our comfort zones, and pieces we love (or think we love). Upload them to Carmen's portal so she can analyze our wardrobe and start building our Amsterdam looks.
The Reality: We haven't really shopped in years. Our closets are... a journey. Some gems. Some "why do I still have this?" moments. A lot of laughs.
This is the raw, real process of working with a professional stylistβand it starts with honesty about what's actually hanging in our closet.
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MEET CARMEN
Carmen is a seasoned stylist with decades of experience working with brands like Nordstrom and Feny. She's picking outfits and helping us explore how we see ourselves, how we want to show up in the world, and how our style connects to our identity as Black travelers.
Follow Carmen: @charmedbycarmen
THE AMSTERDAM TRIP
We're sailing the AmaWaterways Soulful Experience River Cruise from December 27 - January 3, exploring Amsterdam and beyond. Carmen is styling us for one activity and one elegant river cruise eventβand we're documenting the entire process.
Learn more: @amawaterways
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πΊ WATCH THE FULL SERIES
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gH_n0UlFyds - Introducing the show concept
Part 2: You're here! Closet chaos
Part 3: Coming Oct 20 - What Makes You Feel Sexy? The consultation (things get deep...and personal)
Part 4: Coming Oct 22 - What Are 3 Words You Want People To Think When They See Your Style?
Part 5: Coming Oct 27 - Carmen's mood board reveal
Part 6: Coming Oct 29 - Shopping mission
Part 7: Co
