Hello my beloved readership,

Autumn and basics seems to become a continuous love story: With the Normcore-trend we receive the steadiness that we need. Check it out here in the following.

This autumn/winter season was a real punch in my face – a heavy one and thinking about it it has been more than just one punch. Where should I just start…? Nowhere. I could always trust my (female) intuition whenever I had a bad feeling the corresponding event turned out to become reality. It is for a reason that people call me medium and I feel flattered by it. And yet I came into these situations. So is it really legit for me to say “if I had known things before I would have acted differently”? Maybe I would have reconsidered my one or other decision between either option A or option B but thinking back at this time and all the happenings I think that I would have acted the same. At least I heard some of the people in my life saying “Johanna, if you knew that things are going to turn out like this why did you over-exhaust yourself unnecessarily?”

Sometimes this is the only point I am thinking about (and about the one or other reply I had given which could have been a little bit more different; spicier or more to the point, steadier, less emotional… I do not know, things like that simply). But then again I know my limits and I know that I can surpass them if I really have to – even if some people think that it is impossible or some kind of a bad habit to not give yourself the rest that you need. But well, what should I tell you? As a mother you learn about sights and strengths you did not know that you have had them so why taking a step back from another obstacle? As I sit here writing these lines, checking it again with the title and thinking back to this time I feel like I need to give you a different statement and conclusion that I should have done things differently because of what happened. But no, that is not what my heart and mind would agree on, not because everything I do was right but because even if I sensed how things would be going to become if was good that they were present at the time when they were. And at least I can look back saying that at least I tried. I had given all I could to change my fate but fate was stronger so life continues and I go on – however with a good conscience as I look back.

It is your attitude that changes from experience to experience that kind of roughens you and turns you more into yourself but basically at least you can say I tried before letting it go.

“Normal is a pretty controversial term (…) – I think in means of fashion we can in fact rely on normality or rather Normcore.”

Autumn-Trend: Normcore/Basics

Autumn and basics seems to become a continuous love story. If you remember already last year fashion-trends had taken us back to basics for autumn. Then however basics went a level higher becoming basic 2.0 which you can review here. This year basics remain basics as their title “Normcore” already says: Blue jeans, white shirt and if you need something warm in additional there is nothing more normal than a black fine-knit cardigan. If you think nonetheless that red lips are breaking the Normcore-style then it is my very personal preference and point of view to add a discreet and pale red lipstick to this kind of basic denim style. For me, red lips and blue jeans belong together like a winning team you do not want to change. Also you do not want to make a basic-style seem pale and without any spice at all. Normal is a pretty controversial term “what is normal at all?” – I think in means of fashion we can in fact rely on normality or rather Normcore.

My Look in Details

• Cardigan by Orsay
• Turtleneck by Orsay
• Super skinny jeans by QS/s.Oliver
• Combat boots by Tommy Hilfigher
• Watch by Tommy Hilfigher
• Lipstick “Burgundy Red” by Dr. Pierre Ricaud
• Earrings by SIX

Love, Johanna