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Hippie Influence

Hippies
by Devon Poer

We have all heard the term "hippie". When you think about hippies most likely the ideas of free loving, drug using, and music festivals in the mid 60's like Woodstock come to mind. Well what about the influence of dress this subculture had on mainstream society and the influence of the movement even more so today in fashion?


(Anna Sui Fall 2010)

Hippies, started as a youth movement in the United States in the mid-1960s. An influence that expanded across not only the United States but many other countries including England. This subculture adopted many of its ideologies from the Beat Generation, which included beatnik Jimi Hendrix. The beat generation was a literary movement in the 1950s and 60s, of anti-conformists youths.


(Modern fashion hippie, fashion blogger Rumi Neely of FashionToast.com)

This subculture of hippies, practiced alternative lifestyles outside of American commercialism which promoted sustainable energy, embraced the sexual revolution, created social groups and communities, listened to psychedelic music and used drugs such as marijuana and LSD to explore alternative states of consciousness. Their lifestyles included communal living, sharing of resources, and free love.


(Zoe and Lenny Kravitz)

The values and fashions of this subculture had and still do have a major impact on influencing popular music, television, film, literature, and the arts. Today, the "hippie" influence is still a big part of contemporary culture within fashion, lifestyle, music, sexual mores, and the cyberspace revolution. You can't be out in society without seeing its influence on a daily basis.


(Vogue Germany July 2010)

I'm very much influenced by the "hippie" mores, values and lifestyle everyday of my life especially within fashion and art. Click here to see my art work of psychedelic flowers.

Kisses,

Devon Poer
Editor-In-Chief
The Stylist Handbook

Psychedelic Flowers

I've been working on a new piece of art lately and I'm really in love with this piece so I wanted to share it and see what others though. My art is typically this psychedelic flowers now of days. People who were friends with me in high school know I did henna art and would do pieces for friends with there names and my flowers. I'm not really sure when I started drawing this flowers but I remember that I've been fond of drawing and painting since I was a kid. I remember drawing fashion designs when I was twelve and being so excited when a couple years later I saw trends that I had drawn.


(Day 1)

(Day 2)

(Day 3)

This piece I started working on a couple days ago and took photos of its process, typically because these pieces take a couple days between all my other projects.

This piece I did over a month ago and I hadn't done one in a while so its really not some of my best work but I still like it. Enjoy!!!

Lots of Cake

(what a birthday cake)

I feel like this weekend was a long weekend... I split my time between Orange County and Los Angeles. I headed down to OC on Friday night and attended Keslyn's (my baby niece) baptism and first birthday party on Saturday. In the evening I jetted back up to LA for Stylist George Blodwell's Birthday at his home in Hollywood. And then Sunday I went for a long walk like 4 miles, worked and prepped for two photo shoots this week. I finally got my website updated!!! I have all my services listed for fashion styling, wardrobe styling and writing.




While down in OC I enlisted the help of my 13 year old brother TJ to take some quick shots of me and he is quite the little photographer. Don't you think so?


(the coolest little brother, TJ)

Wardrobe: Black dress second hand, white vest from my step mothers closet, belt Daisy Gonzales, Sunglasses Gucci, Shoes Steve Madden, Bracelet Banana Republic

Classic Sexy

I found this fall 2010 ad campaign for Eres lingerie on Fashionising.com, which is my new favorite site. Model is Tiah Eckhardt and I love her red hair... I'm all crazy about dying my hair red now. The campaign is so beautifully simple and great colors for the collection. Also, Karl Lagerfeld is involved with Eres too. Who isn't he designing for these day? Haha. He is truly the fashion king of our time. Oh I want some Eres lingerie now!!!

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Ghost of London's past

I was going thru images on my computer last night and discovered these photos and thought they would be cool to share. These are images of me while I was living in London (the summer of 2007). One of the student photographers, her name alludes me other then they called her "Rice", she needed a model and I could style it so we did a photo shoot. We had a lot of fun playing with the lights and shadows. Ah I miss days like these... I want to have a studio in my backyard already!



My hair was still really long then. I didn't start cutting it really short until I moved to LA. I miss my long hair.