As some of you might know from my latest blog entries, I'm currently working on a tiny local studio while getting my Master's Degree in Architecture by designing from scratch my final project. What some of you might not know is that my work basically consists of being sort of an archivist, helping classifying super old documents and huge beautiful vintage floor plans among illustrated books and other treasures carrying years and years of local Valencia history. Some friends have already joked about me being the architecture guardian of the eclectic.
I didn't know the real meaning of the word "eclectic" until I started this position I'm currently in, and now, I can't help but say how obsessed I've become with this term and its essence, which is basically in every single building and corner built in the first decades of 20th Century in Valencia, which is also one of my favorite historical eras in so many aspects. Being eclectic means taking the best or most representative clues of lots of different eras and putting them all together to make something new and sensational. new and sensational. Now those crazy outfits I used to put together mixing with regular today pieces (and which I still do) make sense in my mind and finally have a tag. I think this cropped top from Shein which is as millennial as I am together with this vintage A-line skirt couldn't get any more eclectic. It's basically balancing together the new and the antique, fashionably talking too.
So, I encourage you as always to get inspiration from the unexpected, from design, from architecture, from the textures in the daily clouds and the people you walk through every day. You don't know where you can find your next go-to term!