SELF-TRANSFORMATION PHOTOGRAPHED BY RACHEL CHAMBERS ART DIRECTORS TATUM MUNDY & ANDREW BARRON
MODELS THALIA STOFFERS, AMANDA CHANG, SAVANNAH SENEVIRATNE WRITTEN BY CHLOE COLETTI DESIGNER LYNETTE SLAPE & SOPHIE SARGEANT
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s we grow over time, our sense of self goes through rapid transformations as we attempt to define who we are and search for what we think best expresses us. Particularly as a teenager and young adult, this constant change and need to define and express ourselves is at the forefront of our thoughts and experience - we worry a lot about following trends, what group we fit into, and how we come off to others. Some will debate if we ever truly come into our best or most true sense of self, but eventually as we grow we find a place where we are comfortable and stop our constant changing and searching and 39 ALIGN
settle into whatever style we think best expresses us. But the journey to that point is long, ever-changing, and deep. The young adult and teenage years are some of the most transformative years of our lives, and one of the main ways we express our constant feeling of growing up, change, and developing identity is through clothing. We see this with the microtrends so common across younger generations- we are so desperate to express ourselves but the way in which we do changes so rapidly that the industry can barely keep up. Things
