Ashley Reed
Class of 2021
Media Studies
Personal style: Spunky, sporty, comfortable, and casual
Fashion icons: Zoe Kravitz, Kacey Musgraves, Bratz Dolls, Princess Diana, and @coco_pinkprincess. I draw from a myriad of style perspectives and aesthetics to blend my own concoction and don't cater to one style. All of the ladies (and dolls?) I mentioned are all unapologetically themselves and that is what matters most to me for fashion inspiration.
But the words never felt light. They felt like a label and an expectation. Like a role I was bound to grow into. This served as the precedent to how I would grow up and who I would grow into being—someone whose worth would be packaged into how I will one day affect men.