HUNTING PARTY FEAT. AMAZON FASHION

About a year ago at this time, I was finishing up The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley. Would highly recommend if you’re looking for a quick, palpitating read that’s quite seasonal — it takes place around New Years Eve in a desolate mountain town covered in sheets of snow. One of the things I loved about the book (and a reason why I’m currently reading a second book by Foley, The Paris Apartment, right now) is its play on identities. Though the story plays out from different first-person perspectives of every character involved, Foley manages to dig deeper than that. Each character may be multi-dimensional themselves, but it’s these layers that cause them all to possess different identities during various plot points throughout her books. Sometimes the good guy is really the bad guy. Sometimes the protagonist isn’t the main character at all. I think Foley captures humanity at its best exactly for this reason — her tales tell a multitude of stories within just “one” — with every character living and breathing with a new identity on almost every page.

Playing with this notion of identity, I thought it would be fun to grab something out-of-the-box from my closet and style it in a way that made it feel more natural/part of my everyday type of look. The item I landed on was this vintage style Floral Print Corset from Amazon Fashion that I wore as my Halloween costume of Christine from Phantom. It’s certainly something I wouldn’t wear everyday, this is for certain, but I felt it was a good choice to challenge myself while styling this look. I think that the most fun also came from being able to wear it out confidently — playing with my identity, too. I paired it over a black turtleneck bodysuit (cause well, it was below 40 degrees this day), brown pleather pants from ASOS, and a fur-lined black leather jacket I got ages ago from Topshop. To finish the look off, I added a big black bow clip to my hair and popped on my new vintage Fendi Zucca Wool Beige Baguette.

Leaving you with one of my favorite quotes from the Bard on identity:

“God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.”

[Hamlet 3.1]

Cheers, xx - A. Martine

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