The Giraffe's Bio

I find it very hard to write about myself. I am sitting in the Starbucks in my neighborhood, they are playing great soul music which has helped my mood. Here is my bio:

Giraffe

A Chicago geek, she was often teased and called Giraffe due to her height and long neck. Her colorful, shiny and handmade clothing made her an outcast in conservative Chicago. She wanted to fit in, she did. She could not fit in even if she tried.  Her grandmother Ruby Jean spoke life into her, she said, “be the best at who you are. If you are different, be the best at being different”. She never tried to fit in again ever and stood out even more.

Unable to find her style in department stores and boutique, she started designing her outrageous fashions and accessories  during her freshman year of high school. She studied Architectural Design, Biology and the Negro poets of the Harlem Renaissance. She listened to Jazz and found solidarity in Hip Hop.

When she was 18 years young, her grandmother Ruby Jean presented her with 7 vintage dresses. She has been a vintage junkie ever since. She lives, breathes, eat and sleeps vintage. She is in love with an era that is not her own. She watches movies from the 1940s-1970s. She watches black/white talkies and foreign films with subtitles to create the magic and grace from her grandmother’s era.

She interned for The Source Magazine and has written for XXL Magazine.

She reclaimed the nickname “Giraffe” as a term of empowerment for weird, quirky, extraterrestrial individuals everywhere.

 She is a swan.