Citizen Brooklyn

Young and emerging fashion designers: Xuanxuan Li

Style Stories is a new CBK series in which we explore fashion on the individual and personal level. We will feature real people and let them style themselves, telling the story behind each outfit. If you are interested in collaborating in the series please contact us with a few sample outfit pics. Enjoy our first installment! Send your material to: icarus@citizenbrooklyn.com

If your looking to update your fashion, look no further.

It’s high heels or the highway…

Aurora Lopez Mejia believes her jewelry embedded with words are transformative reminders of evolution and change.

It’s a tough racket, but when the goin’ gets tough, the tough get goin’

A taste of futuristic fashion. Even in a gritty dystopian world, people still look the part. With getups you’d expect to see in a Kubrick film, sometimes the past, present and future collide in just one picture… Or one outfit.

She only cooks at night. She can be alone in those hours, slipping off her dress and the troubles of the day along with it.

Muscular dystrophy, that hampers mobility forcing those affected to use a wheelchair, is the antithesis of the prototype of a traditional model. This was until a very intrepid woman-on-wheels appeared on the scene, full of grace, style and charisma.

If the jeans fit, wear ’em… And in this case the fit is perfect.

Upon arriving at the studio, brilliant, youthful Ms Funk, volunteered to make the first coffee run. This exemplifies how she runs her business: a whole different way of bossing (people) around. She shares her thoughts with CBK on CEOing, her management style mantra and the future of her baby, Brooklyn Industries.

We’re hoping this brilliant concept catches fire globally. The first free clothing pop-up store for the homeless, here’s how they did it.