Blythe Marks’s Instagram is equal parts hilarious and chic. The Los Angeles-based writer, vintage dealer, and social editor at Old Navy is well-versed in fashion history, and matches her “understated melodrama,” aesthetic with witty and at times touching captions. An Electric Feathers pale mint dress with a fanned-out sleeve (that she’s styled with black leather Tabi boots) she describes as, “CATEGORY IS: Turn of the century ERTÉ muse decamps from GAY PARIS to settle down in SILVERLAKE.” In another Instagram, Marks wears a crinkly Dries van Noten blouse with puffed, Charles Worth-style sleeves with the caption “we’re currently in the “PUTTING ON A SILLY LITTLE OUTFIT JUST TO FEEL LIKE YOUR MERE EXISTENCE IS POSSIBLE” stage of things”.
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Once a Tumblr teen, Marks grew up on a steady fashion diet of the Antwerp Six and issues of Vogue. One of her most collected designers is Issey Miyake, and she currently owns over 75 pieces. She purchased her first piece from the label—a pair of drop-crotch pants—in 2018. The caption read, “A childhood fantasy, forged in the flames of endless hours spent on Tumblr and flipping through old issues of FRUiTS, fulfilled!” Marks, who fell in love with them, bought a second pair off The RealReal last year as a back up.
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