Green strapless sequin dress, Ashish
Off-white patent shoes, Roger Vivier
Twisted gold earrings, Ottoman Hands
Black bomber jacket and ruffle skirt by Rochas
Lime platform heels by Roger Vivier
Printed metallic detail dress by Edeline Lee
Chunky gold earrings, NEST jewellery
Cream sling back shoes, Pretty Ballerinas
Pink oversized bow strapless dress by Zeynep Kartal
Words:
Going home seems easier now you’re grown.
Back to where you were conceived.
Not literally, but where your identity was formed.
But you forget it’s even harder to walk those old streets in new shoes.
You aren’t the same, but you will never change in the eyes of those who saw you before you reached your final form. Yet each time you go back, you feel the need to challenge and control their perceptions less and less.
In this place, the identity you created only lived on the inside.
Now it is pinned to your collar.
You are no longer segregated, but set apart.
Not better, but bettered.
Now when you walk these streets you get to choose which home you return to;
the town that made you, or the home that you made.
Freddie Finch
Left-hand image:
Gold foil mini dress and off-white ankle boots by Zimmermann
Right-hand image:
Printed metallic detail dress by Edeline Lee
Chunky gold earrings, NEST jewellery
Left-hand image:
Blue tulle dress by A-Jane
Black bra, CDLP at net-a-porter.com
Black flat shoes by Pretty Ballerinas
Right- hand image:
Multi-coloured sequin jacket and skirt by Ashish
Turquoise jewel-bow shoes by Mach & Mach
Pink cowboy shirt by Unselfish Lover at wolfandbadger.com
Purple velvet trousers, The Vampire’s Wife
White shirt and over coat by Erdem
Left-hand image:
Purple print blazer by ArdAzAei Couture
Right-hand image:
Blue tulle dress by A-Jane
Black bra, CDLP at net-a-porter.com
Black flat shoes by Pretty Ballerinas