When I grow up I want to be... Pamela Ocampo.

Remember I wrote a post about wanting to be Garance Doré earlier? There I wrote that she won a CFDA Award with her Sartorialist boyfriend. In the post about the award she mentions former winners and she cites them as inspiration for her own career. That inspired me to write about my own inspirations. She of course is one, but there are some other people I want to be (like). 

This, and the other pictures of Pamela Ocampo, were taken from a great interview with 

her by CoolHunterMx.

One of them is Pamela Ocampo. The name may not be very well know to you, but she is a fashion editor at Elle Mexico. You know, from previous posts, that I would love to work there after I graduate from my masters (less than two months now!). And she is one of the reasons I want to work at that particular magazine.

I like her articles on the magazine, her posts for the Elle Mexico in Quien magazine's blog and, of course, her tweets. And that she is very nice. Very, very nice.

 This is the February 2012 cover, styled by her. Image taken from 

Fashion Gone Rouge.

 

 One of her Twitter avatars. Doesn't she look super nice?

She studied the same thing I did at the same college (Comunicación at the Tec de Monterrey), and was obsessed with magazines when she was little. She also loves doing yoga and blogging. Just like me! Yay! I'm really a fan of hers.  

 She loves green tea and yoga.

And... We are finally meeting next weekend after being "twitter friends" for a while... I can't wait! I have so many questions to ask her regarding my thesis and the magazine world. I'm really excited! I'll let you know how that goes! 

*Most of her tweets are in Spanish, and so is her blog on Quien magazine, but I had to link to it!

When I grow up I want to be... Garance Doré.

One of my favorite bloggers of the moment is Garance Doré (@garancedore). She started her blog, where she uploaded her beautiful illustrations, in 2006. Then she started adding text, in a very cute, kind of funny way. (I guess that’s the way to make a good blog, writing about what you like in your own style… Not just having ads and posting outfits). Then she started taking pictures and fell in love with The Sartorialist. She is exactly the kind of blogger/writer I want to be.

  Garance Doré at some Fashion Week.

In her “about” section of her website she writes: 

“That’s how it became quite clear to me that fashion was my dearest subject. I like how often it changes its mind and in it, you can see the passing of time. I like that it’s as beautiful on movie stars as it is on the street because everything is only how you look at it.”

 I really like her beautiful illustrations. This one's illustrating Prada.

Her love for fashion is one of the reasons I love her. But not the only one, here are my five top reasons she's my favorite at the moment:

• She seems like the nicest person in the (fashion) world.
• She has the cutest French accent when speaking English. We both have an accent! Something in common...
• She’s dating, like I said before, the Sartorialist’s Scott Schumann. And together they won the CFDA Eugenia Sheppard Media Award. 
• She’s very casual in her writing tone, I like to think we write in a similar way. (Something else in common).
• She writes super cute “hand-written” notes over her pictures.   

 
With Scott Schumann, The Sartorialist. I love that they're wearing 

matching shoes!

Clearly I'm in love with the woman. And I was completely obsessed with her “Pardon my French” video series about Paris Fashion Week. I thinkink watching them was the moment I fell in love with her personality. She’s one of the people I want to be when I grow up.

  This is episode 2 of the Pardon My French series, "Fashion & Technology". It's my favorite, I hope you like it too.  

Blogger Inspiration

I was completely sick during the weekend. I hate being sick, and of course there are no pretty (or any kind of) pictures of me wearing cute outfits. What I did during this sickness was watch a lot of movies, blow my nose a million times and drink a hundred cups of tea. Oh, yeah, and look at fashion blogs. These five bloggers have become my favorite not only because of their outfits, but also because they all seem like genuine nice girls... Not your typical fashion-obsessed-girl who won't look at you unless you're wearing straight-from-the-runway-ModaOperandi-clothes. So here they are, my favorite bloggers who I want to be like when I grow up... In alphabetical order so none of them feel bad. Candice Lake Candice Lake, Australian running around the world. What I like about this blog is that it's not only about her, but I love when it is. Like this outfit, showing that classic doesn't mean boring. She's a photographer for Vogue, Glamour, Harper's Bazaar and more. And, like the ex-model she is, she dresses as if she was on the other side of the camera.

From the post "NYFW Day 2 Outfit"

Kitties+Couture Maria Morales, Colombian living in San Francisco. I recently discovered her blog on another of my obsessions, Pinterest. She has te cutest outfits and I like the idea that she has all this multicultural influences. I love this outfit of hers because of how she looks super lady like and modern at the same time. I've been following her for around a week and I even applied for an internship at the place she works. Wish me luck.

From the post "High Collar + Lucite Heels"

Le Fashion Jenn, New York City. She's a Grad student, just like me. But not like me, she writes for the WhoWhatWear blog. This is one of my favorites, she posts the most beautiful pictures of everything fashion related, and I also love her other blog Olsen Anonymous about, well, the Olsen sisters. She doesn't post many pictures of herself or her outfits so I chose this "Currently Obsessed" pic that could be mine as well.

From the post "Currently Obsessed"

Style Scrapbook Andy Torres, Mexican living in Amsterdam. I like her because, first of all, she's Mexican. It's inspiring to see someone from my country that has gone so far. It keeps me going. Also because she just seems soooo nice and I love almost all her outfits, this one especially. And we share a name.

From the post "Look of the Day: Polka Dots"

*Disclaimer: All the images belong to the girls and their blogs. I am in no way appropriating them and there's a link to all of them. I just wanted to share a little of what I do all day!

Color, color, color!

I can't get enough of Kate Spade New York's blog. It is so colorful that it makes me happy just by looking at it. It's the perfect distraction for a lunch break!


The online store is pretty too, it makes me want to get everything. And with this month's "multi color theme" I especially want the Sorbonne Square Evangeline purse and the Crystal Kaleidoscope Bib necklace.




So if you were planning on giving me a Christmas gift, now you know what I want!