🇬🇧 Adolescence and personal style

This is a text about some experiences from my adolescence and their impact on defining my personal style.

I'm Nycka Nunes, digital and cultural nomad. I work as a visual artist, fine art photographer and stylist. I recommend that you follow my profiles on social networks because I often write texts that are better understood by those who follow my content.

I will consider adolescence the period of my life from 13 to 22, in this text.

At 11 and full of traumas, I started studying at the only school where I stayed for more than two years. I studied there until the end of high school. I have already told you in another text how the first year there was. The second was not much different. People started approaching me. In the third year studying there I was very comfortable and all my closest colleagues were in the same class. Except for the fact that I didn't answer roll call or present work to the class, no public exposure of my voice or being the center of attention, it was almost normal life at school.

Until I was 18, my family chose my clothes, without allowing me to give my opinion. I hated the clothes they made and when I complained that they never asked if I liked them, they started to dress me only in used clothes and shoes from my aunt, who was smaller than me. Bad side: too short pants and tight shoes. On the bright side: She wore clothes from the most expensive brands available in the city, which were among the most expensive national brands at the time. Impact on my personal style: ever since I started buying my own clothes at the age of 18, I've been very keen on comfort, design and good fit. Her clothes were always simple in design. Among the jeans I've bought with my money all my life, for example, I haven't owned any simple 5-pocket jeans. They all had something different from the more traditional denim pattern. I usually emphasise these three characteristics (comfort, design and fit) when looking for clothes and accessories for my clients as well.

I've been machine knitting clothes since I was a teenager, sewing by hand. I only learned pattern making and sew fabrics on a machine much later. And this later knowledge makes me evaluate more the finishing of the clothes since then.

The traumas were overcome in adulthood with a lot of meditation, support from people who care about me and the desire not to limit myself in that way. Upon entering the university, I decided that there I would answer the roll call and present works. It was scary at first, but it was important to take that step to take the initiative to meet people after I moved away from my hometown at the age of 22.

Nycka Nunes