ELENA MERCURIO
SoMinn STYLE
Elena Mercurio is a Mankato native and a Twin Cities resident. She has a love for fashion and went to school for it. She also enjoys concerts, festivals, new restaurants and good deals. Reach her at elenamercurio@gmail.com.
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This shacket from Nordstrom is a good example of winterready clothing.
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elcome to the first feature of Southern Minnesota Style. This will be a fashion column that offers trends, advice, and all things fashion related to a Southern Minnesota lifestyle. First off, I would like to introduce myself. I was born and raised in Mankato, where I found at an early age my love of fashion, drawing and sewing my own clothes. I went to college at the University of Wisconsin, Stout, graduating with a degree in Apparel Design and Development (now called the Fashion and Retail program). During college, I interned for designers in New York, Los Angeles, and assisted at London Fashion Week. After college, I started my own collection, selling at boutiques in Minneapolis for quite a few years. I now have a fulltime job, which has taken away from designing as much as I’d like, but I still design and draw when I get inspired. This column is my way to connect my roots of Southern Minnesota and my love of fashion to hopefully bring some
inspiration for discovering the excitement of curating personal style to the readers. As we are transitioning into the holiday season, so let’s focus on what we will be wearing to our upcoming gatherings. We might be seeing some friends and family for the first time in a couple years, so we want to look great while feeling comfortable. I recommend taking an inventory of what you have in your closet currently. We do this usually in the spring, but it’s also great to do at the end of the year to re-evaluate what you wore and loved during this year, and what you did not. Pick out the holiday outfit contenders, and try them on again. We change shape from time to time (and that’s perfectly OK!), so we want to make sure that how we remembered the clothing item fitting before, still in fact does. If it doesn’t fit anymore, we put it in the give-away pile without judging ourselves, and find something fun and new to wear. I recommend only holding onto clothing
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