Why Personal Style Is (Mostly) A Lie 

Personally believe fashion is understanding the fundamentals and how to play with them vs. personal style is taking the fundamentals that work for you and leaving the ones you don’t like for other people to rock

i honestly think it comes down to people just wanting to feel better than others. im stylish and youre just fashionable therefore me good you bad

I personally go with: as long as i’m having fun with my fits, i’m doing good! 😆

I think you nailed it, I'm grateful to people that are the early adopters because then more iteration of said pieces are made available. Which often means they are A. Available in a size appropriate to my body type and B. Available to my budget. Plus there are so many juxtaposing trends and styles running at the same time now and I need help filtering through them. It was a lot simpler a few decades back. Much less variety back then. Great work, always. Cheers!

This is so refreshing, I've been seeing so many videos on how to find your personal style and it's all so wrong, having made it to the other side (7 years later...) Pushing the idea of having a minimal wardrobe that simultaneously being true to yourself and your style straight away is impossible without experimentation and dabbling in trends and relevant fashion is almost the only way to know what you like. Thanks for this

personal style: people say 'thats something he would wear' trends: people say 'its what everyones wearing' fashion: people say 'look at that outfit' whether any of it looks good or not is also independent of all 3 categories

Fashion is what's available, style is what you choose to wear...

We have completely opposite styles but I resonate with your style and what you said here. I've basically accepted that I dress like an elderly man who somehow gets Paris Fashion Week lookbooks due to a mixup at the post office. Cozy and comfy with some inspiration from what's trendy. You have to get exposure to trends and learn what you like and don't like through experience. Like anything else, you have to practice. Though if skinny jeans and slim fits come back, I don't think I'll be doing that.

I really like Madeline's Pendelton perspective on personal style vs fashion (she is a fashion designer, quite popular on TikTok). She says that fashion trends are responses to what's currently happening in the world/in pop culture etc (you know, for example when inflation grows, usually high heels are back) and fashion is a visual way of communicating with each other. She says everyone already has personal style because by choosing what you like and what you don't like you filter the clothes you gonna wear. And here comes what you mentioned in the video - if you tried many styles, you have a better idea of what you like, and you are not afraid to risk and combine items from different styles or trends. I think people should focus more on trying out new things, rather than looking for a personal style. Personal style will come naturally, with the exposure and experience.

Great video, Animal Rescue! I've a friend who constantly tells me to dress myself up in brighter colours and in more "normal" streetwear clothing, all HM/Uniqlo fit kinda stuff. For a while I explored that with her advice and bought a few pieces, but while they look OK on me I always have a feeling that I'm just "wearing clothes". It was a good lesson exploring new styles, and whilst I still wear those clothes for family visits, I've taken it in as more of a reminder to try out new things but not go head first into whatever people tells me look good, and that the important thing is that I like the combination of what I'm wearing.

That's why i gravitate toward dressing elegant or casual-elegant. It's classic, it's comfortable it always looks good. I experiment with more 1930-40 fit from time to time, to spice things up.

"I have a very unique style" - People who have been wearing nothing but band t-shirts, hoodies, jeans/cargo pants and white sneakers every day everywhere between ages 13-45.

“You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”

I saw this article and thought it was great; fashion trends are there as a sort of mirror. We can see ourselves relatively using the mirror. A unique outfit exist because there is trend

I'm pushing 40 and was just minding my damn business in the park playing Pokemon Go with the wife when suddenly a pack of zoomers on skateboards & scooters started complimenting my "Mad sick drip for real for real." I thought they were joking. The fit? Just the same comfy beige Condor Tactical Sentinel cargo pants I've worn for about a decade now, my Goofy Movie Powerline tour shirt, paired with my trusty Nike Freerunner, my Twitchcon 2017 fanny pack/bum bag, a dad hat, my aviators, and one of several shemaghs I've worn since my Army days. That's how I found out gorpcore and shirts that go hard were both a thing and that either fashion has gone full stupid or I'm just so damned stylish that I was 15 years ahead of the curve & just had to wait for everyone else to catch up. I'll go with the latter. Also I used to buy New Balance like 15 years ago just because they were cheaper than other brands & seemed to stand up to 2-8 mile runs 5 days a weak. Still think they're ugly. LOL.

I remember when every “teaching style” channel recommended double monkstraps. Double monks were timeless, went with everything, and never went out of style. When was the last time we saw them recommended?

I just buy things that have colors in places that look good from a distance, match with other items I have, and have finishes that keep me reaching for them, and lasting for years. You pretty much just have to make fits that look good while squinting, feel good up close, and create harmony with other pieces. You can then use the “anything can work” to randomly combine pieces from multiple styles you own.

Pretentious video title suggestion: "A Hegelian Dialectic of Style vs Fashion in a Late Stage Capitalistic Society"

I just want my clothes to compliment each other, and then I'm good tbh.

I think the whole cooking metaphor to me highlights why I disagree with your general fashion philosophy. If someone asks a chef what to cook the response should be “Why do you want to cook, and what do you like to cook already.” Not slotting that person into the flavor of the week trend until they spend enough money to actually know what they like. I think my problem with trends is that it reduces fashion as a hobby to reflexively coveting/buying stuff. There’s no self reflection. If you teach people interested in fashion to consider their goals, why they like certain things, what in-groups they’re trying to appeal to, what about their current clothes they dislike- you’re giving them tools to help themselves and think critically. I think the fashion content creator’s job should be giving people interested in expressing themselves through fashion the raw material (info on runways, brands, designers, terms etc) to build their own visions. Focusing so much on the *how* of fashion (“buy puffer coats to look good”) instead of the *why*(“puffer coats force people to acknowledge how much space you take up,“) has lead to content that feels more like advertising. Also: just because you like something doesn’t mean it’s for you. Advising people to buy what they like is half of a piece of advice. What you like and what you’re trying to say with your style are a Venn diagram, not a circle.

I don’t really do tech-wear, but I love these videos ❤

I really got into style myself last year and then went to integrate fashion into it more but realized some days, yeah, I just enjoy going for something comfy and unusual like looking a little ratty or just wearing my clothes how I like to instead of going with what would be considered widely accepted.

a lot of inspiring insights! probably even struggling to admit a certain involvement with fashion trends may keep us away from experimenting and having fun with our clothing, while in reality it's not about being outside of trends to stand out, but rather building a conscious style that works and makes us confident thanks Ant as always for the interesting topics !

I think the way that you describe them being pitted against each other can be toxic, but I don’t necessarily see them as opposites. You can incorporate fashionable items into a personal style and you can turn fashion into a personal style too. We need fashion to further our personal style and we need style to further fashion, I don’t think it is at odds so much as symbiotic 🤷

Honestly the most efficient way to look cool is to incorporate timeless classics and also “badass” pieces that you can pull off and just basics with maybe a little trends. Cowboy boots, a biker jacket, a canvas vest. Army fatigues. Would I wear all of these in one outfit? No. Would I even wear two of these at once? Again, no. But having one of these pieces mixed into an otherwise normal outfit is an easy way to look cool as fuck. And basic shit like gold or silver chains for accessories.

The real style is the friends we made along the way

Where i live we can't barely use a single shirt without being uncomfortable from the heat, most of the time and mainly at home is just shirtless with shorts. I like the content and the theory but when you can barely use anything other than shirt and shorts, it is very hard to have any style other than minimalistic without being very unconfortable.

hey antwon can we see a vid about bags specifically messengers

You misunderstand what is meant by style. It's not what you wear, but the way that you wear it. To quote Cary Grant, "I believe men's clothes-like women's-should attract attention to the best lines of a man's figure and distract from the worst."

Bro im not even lying, the image of pedestrians with the words "my style inspo" is fucking art. It reminds me of the turn-around from pick-me girls saying "im not like other girls" to people now saying "actually, i am like other girls, and other girls rock." And i dont know, theres just something touching about looking to the real people of our society and feeling warm and inspired. I know im being too deep but i loved that shot

Idk why it always makes me have a little laugh everytime he opens the video with hey this is something random like audi rS7 here

Your big brain content like this is the best. I’ve just been slowly going through and binging all your videos

Fashion as a whole is an NPC hobby. They try so hard trying to be different that they all end up looking and acting the same.

If possible: whenever you use clips from your other vids to show off outfits, you should also include the title of that video so we can go check it out!

Black good, colour bad.

Antwon walked so that gorpcore could run

I dont care about style or fashion. I like wearing what I think looks cool, or is comfy. but its nice to keep up with fashion to see if theres anything new that looks cool.

Wait, actually first. Dang. Now second too.

Love the persona 5 background music and this fashion content! Subscribed immediately

Tbh was really expecting the hello fresh sponsorship after the cooking section. It would’ve been to perfect

Did thisisA just watch The Devil Wears Prada

I think the terms need to defined slightly differently. Fashion is more about adaptation. It’s what you “fashion” for yourself, like a suit of armour. It’s about using materials or cuts (or even trends, for that matter) to meet your needs. Style is literally “the instrument” itself. Style refers to the unifying core instrument or aesthetic that one uses to express oneself. Eliminating redundancies and overlaps between the two. Your style is the main tool that unifies your aesthetic, and fashion is the way you modify or upgrade that tool. I think the most important thing to note about all this is that ALL OF IT is external. You can have multiple styles and have different ways to fashion those styles, but all of it will mean nothing if there’s no genuine person behind it.

Fashion is the experiment, style is the conclusion.

Damn, I really needed to hear that styling in a trendy way isn’t bad. I shit on trends pretty often & my favorite fit as of recently uses a trendy “technique” if you will & I felt shattered cuz it’s such a good fit but it’s trendy. I literally just folded my jacket inwards to make it look cropped like the gorpcore kids

I also think style is catering to yourself and maybe your niche of people. Sometimes even going against what's fashionable in favour of what you truly like. While fashion is not only catering to yourself by looking good and up to date but also catering to the big masses and maybe striving to have a higher status and social acceptability through it. Both is has it's perks but I feel that when people get older they develop a sense of personal style automatically while cycling through the trend cycles. How many people still wear skinny jeans because they like them? A lot actually. And I think hanging on to things that are currently at the lowest point of being fashionable is actually really cool. I'll wear skater skirts till I die because I like them so much but cottage core also revived my love for flowy dresses and y2k actually wants to make me buy a low rise jeans, even without a flat tummy. I still have my out of fashion staples in my closet and wear them regularly but I pair them with new stuff that will become staples too, if I grow fond of them. And funny enough I always find elements again and again in every trend cycle that really fit my personal style and reflect the generell vibe I established for myself.

I am forever stuck in metal/punk subculture and my wardrobe is just milsurp, THE green bomberjacket, old military boots, high tops, band tees/hoodies, kitted out leather jacket and my patched denim kutte with zero visible denim at this point due to being adorned with like 165 patches on. I have some generic picks for ''formal'' ocassions but other than that I have zero idea or attraction towards fashion brands. You will excite me infinitely more by telling me a sweater was used by Swiss alpine commandos during the cold war than tell me it's made by some brand I've heard of just now. But what you said about starting somewhere very much stands. A shitty hot topic iron maiden shirt is pretty poopoo compared to vintage blue grape obituary or rare as fuck OG scandinavian shirts. Same with patches and same with milsurp. Not all of it is made equal or has the same oompf value, especially if you are surrounded by fellow enjoyers of said subculture. Knowledge about fashion, its trends and vintage history is very important in creating a proper fit, be it subcultural or not.

You've said it perfectly. I follow tons of style experts on RU-vid and this is the most useful style advice I've come across. Sounds so obvious when you say it so eloquently. Great video

This is great- I really like the reference to detectives of noir cinema- like yes they look super cool, but if you dressed like that on the daily, the biggest thing it would say about you is that you lack social awareness. As a fashion photographer, I don't just want people to think I look cool, I want people to know I am aware of the state of fashion- both in the moment and in the larger trend cycle. Its that social awareness that I am advertising with the way I dress.

How about you just buy and wear what you like? Not what your favourite influencer likes, because damn if I'm gonna spend the amount of money on clothings like Antwon. lol

Style is the synthesis of fashion and personal taste.

Wow thanks for the credits!❤️❤️❤️

Super well done vid! I went through a phase of not being into fashion, and coming back to it has made me realize a lot of the times I was dressing on trend. Now I take elements from a couple years back and incorporate with trends I think are cool now to come up with fits. I definitely think that trendy fashion is a good starting point to developing personal style. It’s cool cause I don’t dress super technical, but I really enjoy your take on it and have incorporated some technical pieces because of it.

It usually comes from people hating what's popular. It makes them feel unique when they don't like what everyone else does. Usually because they don't have the money to take part in fashion trends which is fine it doesn't make you special.

What is that jacket at 14:54 ???

We’re all monkeys and we’re fighting against it. Fashion monkeys.

Phenomenally edited video, very entertaining.

One has style, and one wears fashion ✨

How not to be trendy or fashionable - be fat. You have to develop a personal style \o/

Heyy Antwon whats that sweatshirt you're wearing at 11:00??? I LOVE IT!

I've always said I love when the things I like are hot, cause that means they're actually being sold. You've got no idea how hard it was to find things I like before semi-baggy finally came back, the boxy tops etc. I'm genuinely hardly concerned with others' perceptions of me, my outfit is something I put together for the same reason I'd make some music or dress up a video-game character, and a lot of these outfits/tracks/characters, nobody but me will ever see, it's just there to please my senses and further inspire me. BUT, everything you're passionate about is usually better when shared with others that share a passion for it. I now get more looks from people who may largely just be interested in it for the sake of following trends itself, but let's not forget these trends also put the lens on it for those who would genuinely love it for it's own sake, after being exposed properly. Even those pressured by what others see them as, this may be an opportunity to get comfy wearing things. And, hey, there's bound to be trendy people, might as well have them looking pretty cool to you, right?

Something about the production of this video reminds me of y2k

Knew a guy who lived on a farm. The fit was Levi’s jeans. Ariat cowboy boots. Matching cowboy belt. Grey thrasher hoodie. Sterling Silver chain with a cross on it. Flannel on top of the hoodie sometimes. Honestly looked cooler than 99% of people I know. That’s style done right.

Thank you for this video, this is my way of think : wearing a style that "reprensents you" according to your mind... with help of fashion to get a style. You can follow some trends of fashion without be a hypebeast. I love wide pants, I love sneakers : they are "the fashion" itself, but I'm wearing them the way I think they represent me. You've just earn a new follower, thank you for your work and for your accent easy to understand for a non english native :)

I view style as the sum of its parts in a way, like an equation. Being stylish is about following rules of a cohesive uniform look while simultaniously breaking them for exaggeration and experimentation. An example of this would be the rule of something that is "unflattering". The style of silhouettes, color pallettes, proportions. It's about what pieces you pair with what to create a look that embodies you. ALOT of fashionable people do not possess ANY personal style because nothing they chose is for them, its for others.

i just picked 3 aesthetics from teh intenet and went to town with it

Actually I DON'T care what other people think. However, I have to wear a disguise to work.

11:26 I ran around as an emo in 2009, I am 100% impervious to people finding my style ugly lol. Still wearing skinny jeans.

Ok I don’t disagree. But if you’re new to cooking, do not try cooking ramen as your first Japanese dish. There are significantly easier options. Like Teriyaki chicken or even miso. 😅

Fashion equivalent of “What programming languages should I learn first?”

Fantastic. My only additional thought is that fashion can supply new concepts & fresh aesthetic grist for the personal style mill. I follow fashion so my style can evolve. I do have moments where I spontaneously want an item or aesthetic that doesn't exist yet, but more often, I see something new & click with & look to incorporate it into my existing style. I will say that as I get older, & see more trends come around again & again, it gets easier to accept that some preferred personal styles are out of fashion at the moment. They'll be back. I don't need to cling.

Oddly; I have found a lot of 'fashion' people to also look the same; dull, uninspired and it looked like it was difficult or tough to even select their clothes. It's a very strange thing because I prefer to just take what I see, mix a little and to not think so much about it again.

See I've had people call my style "traditional skate-punk" I've recently added some tech/streetwear elements like a couple pairs of tapered cargos and it makes me think I've peaked

> Uses "Like a Dragon (Y7) clips This is *TRUE* style, my friend 🤝 Ichiban style.

It’s just you need to figure out what you’re doing before you can competently do what you have the taste for. Initially your practice doesn’t match your taste when you’re a noob.

I just wear plain clothes that are darker green, stands out, looks notable, looks like I don’t care, isn’t trendy, people think im a gardener

Important notes, don't most celebs styles come more from whatever stylist they have on staff full-time rather than any choices they personally make

Your style reminds me what Alan Walker 2014 would wear tbh

Fashion is clothing. Style is how you put it together.

The Postman Always Rings Twice. Film noir classic must see.

You need to incorporate elements of fashion to be stylish if you buy in too hard you will look like an ad but people confuse the avoidance of fads with the ignorance of trends thus socially inept

I agree with a lot of this and have taken the steps myself. Got into clothing through fashion and trends to just try a bit of everything. After several years of trial and error I've landed somewhere that feels like me and will really only hop on trends if I actually like it and it feels like me. 😅

Does your girlfriend have a cooking instagram channel?

as a woman in a non stylish european country, it's so hard always being the only one dressed creatively and slutty

Lol, according to genesis, the first drip was animal hides.

Ooooooorrrr, just live in Australia, where it’s so hot, fashion is dead

What if your goal is to blend in? And what about that richy rich quiet style shit?

11:01 "meet palpatine" got me😂

Thanks for sharing, Assassin's Crimson Dagger. I agree, the Diving board example brings the "Learning Zone model" and "Scaffolding" teaching approach to mind. In this RU-vid Comment, I will outline the parallels between the Design Methodology approach to developing a product to this journey of building an Outfit that is true to ourselves at that point in time. During my Product Design education, my professors have told us that we tend to start off with our Intuition of how to approach a problem *or in this case* dress and then begin Ideating solutions or approaches from a Brainstorming approach or a Cataloging practice. From our candidate designs (in this case outfits or aesthetics to draw inspiration from) we begin to develop Simple models for how to perform Abstraction: breaking a very complex problem into small, manageable steps. This can look like taking a complex mechanical system and identifying the smaller systems within it, and parsing them as a collection of Canonical physical models. Or, the massive undertaking of dressing well in case we run into our crush. How? By Assembling the different Components (e.g. socks, footwear, pants, etc.) to develop a Cohesive outfit that Communicates our swag :3 . After that, we develop our more Detailed models, for us it would be Finite Element Analysis and perform calculations and simulations in Computer-Aided Design software that would provide heatmaps for the Stress and Displacement of our component. For fashion, it would be exercises for how to implement this new part of our wardrobe or approach to dressing and making decisions based on those simulations or when we wear it in the controlled environments (aka our rooms). Functional Prototypes are us testing the real thing, and learning from those tests to see what worked and what didn't. For fashion, it can be wearing the Prototype outfit in public, or in a social situation, but most importantly in a place outside of the vacuum of our own habitat. From that test, we can learn what worked, what we felt during the experience, and start to develop Frameworks for the data from our Test. From analyzing our Frameworks, we develop Findings that show us more macro-level trends based on those decisions we made, which, in turn, inform us as we continue to make decisions moving forward. Throughout this process, we're always going back and forth between the different steps, that's what Iteration is. When we develop a Functional Prototype, we might test it and have it fail and realize that the Simple Models weren't accurate for this Prototype, and go back and re-calculate for the Detailed Models etc. The Design process isn't a circular loop between the different stages; it is an approach to visit the different "Sites of Grace" that Design can help us navigate. Finally, we come to Communicating what we learned throughout our Design process in a report, and in the case of Fashion, we can construct a video-essay about the topic or about the timeline for how we came to the conclusions or Findings that we arrived at. I really appreciate your channel, and your humor, and I hope that anyone who reads this has a great day :)

editing has gotten so good

bro changed his whole way of speaking in 2 months

What are the gray shoes in the back to the right at the start of the video ? Looks nice.

What jumper is he wearing when he says 'I need to be warm' at 10:02?

God, this video was deep😒 Thanks for all your work making these videos Antwerk😜

What are the gray boots behind dude doing the video called?

no hate love u but it’s pronounced fam fatal not fem fatal 🌳

i get a lot of info from this channel, but it really seems like there was not much said in this one. like, each aspect is good (both style and fashion) unless it's bad. and it might make you feel uncomfortable but you might be the sort who likes discomfort. plus, it's all contingent on how much time you've put in because you may not have that level of confidence just yet. except for the people who simply do (which the latter you didn't say, but that's legitimately how some folks are.) i just feel like there was nothing new to be said on this one - vansatthemet also has a similar video which, to me is a cool 'welcome to my channel, here's the basics' video. but as channels, you guys are years in at this point. idk, didn't really do anything for me.

First 5 minutes gang??

What are those boot behind you? I like them.

I like those straight-wide grey pants at the 13:00 minute part of the video. Where can I purchase it, if you don't mind me asking?

The only thing I hate is that rick owens kiss boot