Feature
Fashion Influencers
Claire Geist
TEXT BY KAT SMITH
Do you blog full-time?
I’m currently part-time with the blog. Since I graduated from The
New School last May, I started working at Dusty Rose Vintage, a
vintage wholesale warehouse in Brooklyn where I assist in everything from organizing our categorized bins to photographing
and describing product for our Etsy store. It continues to be a
fabulous learning experience. I don’t think I could ever be a fulltime blogger, I gotta learn some other skills!
What else do you do?
When I’m not at Dusty Rose, I work as a freelance content creator. I was on Nanette Lepore’s content creation team for her Fall
’15 show. I love that stuff, but I definitely still have a lot to learn
before I pick my path.
What inspired you to start your blog in the first place?
My parents are both artists. My dad’s a photographer and sculptor and my mom is an illustrator and graphic designer. Fashion
and design were always a big part of my life thanks to the two of
them and I guess the blog just seemed like the perfect platform
for developing my tastes and discussing what interests me about
fashion. I started the b