Soft Girl, Cool Girl, or Tired Girl? The Aesthetic That Actually Fits Our Real Life.

By Leah Gu

Every few months, the internet gives us a new “girl aesthetic” to chase.
每隔幾個月，網路上就會出現一個新的「女孩風格」要我們追逐。

Soft Girl.
軟妹。

Cool Girl.
酷女孩。

Clean Girl, Lemon Girl, Office Siren Girl…
清爽女孩、檸檬女孩、辦公室魅惑女……

But lately, there’s one aesthetic quietly winning:
但最近，有一種風格正在悄悄勝出：

Tired Girl.累累女孩。

When Fashion Becomes Emotion: Nick Knight’s Unbelievable bFashion (2008)

By Leah Gu

Fashion has always been more than clothing to me. When I look at certain images, I feel something in my body — a shift, a release, a spark, or a moment of expansion. In 2008, photographer Nick Knight created a series for Vogue UK titled Unbelievable Fashion. These images remind me that fashion can be a space of emotion, imagination, and healing. Knight takes runway looks we have seen before and transforms them into worlds of FEELING, NO longer just garments, but states of being. This is fashion not just for the eye, but for the nervous system.

💗 Mood & Mode Link Round-Up: Fashion as Emotional Healing

By Leah Gu

We live in a world where emotions move faster than we can name them ，anxiety, joy, loneliness, love.
But art, and especially fashion, gives these feelings form. Every color, texture, and silhouette becomes a silent language for what we can’t always say aloud.

This week, I collected six stories that trace how fashion transforms from an external expression into an internal act of healing from self-awareness to creation, from beauty to belonging.