Anonymous asked: Hello Ivania, it would be very nice if you give me a piece of advice. I am a 22 year old guy and really loving your minimal outfit. I so want to start dressing following the minimal way. Can you please tell me what I could wear for a total white, or anything, outfit? I mean you girls have layers and can wear different lenghts and stuff. But for boys? Please, please, please answer me. Much love!

Boys too! I get inspired a lot by menswear and am sometimes jealous of the clothes designed for you boys. Check out the white on white layers of Phillip Lim’s ss13 men’s collection for example. Much love back at ya!

Anonymous asked: the coat is amazing! could you do a DIY? :)

Thank you very much

don’t want to sound arrogant at all, and I always want to share everything with you guys, but this isn’t a DIY project. Already made it without documenting the process, I worked quite a while on it from pattern making to sewing in a double lining and adding invisible seams throughout. It was super hard to make everything perfect as the fabric is sheer; all the technicalities that are usually invisible are now visible so all this needed to be flawless (had to overdo the pockets three times).. I think the process is just too long to be able to be explained clearly in a blog post

Anonymous asked: What sort of things will you be wearing this summer?

…… if summer will ever come :(

Anonymous asked: Would you call yourself hypocritical? You're 'vegan' but eat fish, you are 'minimalist' but are quoted saying that truthfully you crave a large wardrobe, you are 'pro quality' yet buy Topshop jewellery, you say that you feel calmer away from the internet and that you hate people stealing your images etc, but post images on so many public domains- be it instagram, twitter, facebook, tumblr, pintrest etc. This isn't a personal attack I assure you, and I adore your blog but it does raise questions.

Not sure why I am even answering, guess because you asked it nicely

on being a minimalist:

-Never have dared to call myself a minimalist because I understand what it is; I am not there yet. Though I have always had an aversion against excessiveness and decadence. 

on eating almost vegan

-I eat vegan because of health benefits and environmental reasons. I am not going against my principles when eating fish. I have a kid who needs to grow, am still fairly new to eating vegan, there isn’t always a large variety of fruits and veggies where I live, specially in winter. I’d rather eat fish with my family a few times a month than take supplements (which are either not vegan or chemical). It is a carefully made decision.

 a larger wardrobe

-I don’t recall saying I crave a larger wardrobe! Could you tell me where that quote is? It can’t be right, in fact I’ve been minimizing it even more. I do talk a lot about clothes and fashion because I really appreciate design and craftsmanship. Though when it comes to actually buying something, I don’t really feel the need to do so, and if I do I contemplate for days, weeks, months.

about the topshop jewelry

- Sometimes I also do something I regret, like caving in and buying the topshop jewelry, I wrote my thoughts about it in the post on my blog. 

calm away from the internet

-When I first started blogging I didn’t even think of this as something that was possible. I had 0 readers, let alone considering the possibility that people would want to steal my images.  Maybe some of you might have noticed it, but I have been updating a lot less, this goes for my blog and social media channels. Because of a lot of incidents(shady online stores selling fake designer bags and posting my images in their shops, people having fake accounts pretending to be me, people posting my instagram and Facebook pictures  +  caption to their own feed pretending they took it, Nelly.com producing a DIY, and some more BS) I’m trying to look for a good balance, for now I stopped sharing a lot of things from my life. 

I’m not hypocritical! :) I’m only human and make mistakes too! It would be hypocritical to pretend to be perfect.