#10: Zinam Klaas (by.Zinam)
Final year student slash stylist, Zinam Klaas, checks in to tell us about her obsession with hot pink, listening to Mareux during an existential crisis, the iconic Japanese FRUiTS Magazine, and more.
Zinam Klaas is a Cape Town-based Journalism and Psychology student attempting to break styling norms. I would describe her eccentric style as ‘y2k meets Medieval Popstar’ and on her styling page @by.zinam – she tries to collaborate with other young creatives in order to break boundaries and narrate stories.
We welcome her to The FRM Newsletter to share what she’s been into recently!
🌈🧶 More is more!
More colour, more print, more textures, more everything! You can never have enough colour and print – it’s just about how you play and combine it to makes the look.
🎀💋 Hot pink is the sexiest colour
Anything hot pink immediately makes everything more striking. It leaves a mark and will for sure have everyone staring at you, and this isn’t a bad thing :)
🍰👸🏽 Strawberry shortcake is my style inspo!
Finding styling inspiration from kids shows brings about a fun, weird and quirky way to thinking about fashion. As kids we never used to care about how we looked to others – as long as our sequinned pink dress and green ballet flat combo looked good. So why not bring the same energy to your closet now?
🎧❤️ Frolicking on a field type beat
Listen to Cocteau Twins, Heaven or Las Vegas album!
🎵💔 You’re having an existential crisis and reconsidering your whole existence type beat
Listen to anything by Mareux or Lebanon Hanover
If you haven’t watched Fallen Angels or Chungking Express, both directed by Wong Kar-Wai, do it now!
👻 💅🏾 Stop perceiving me, I’m literally not real
Being perceived is inevitable, so why care what people are going to think of you? If they’re already going to form an opinion, you might as well make it something to live up to and memorable.
📸🍉 FRUiTS Magazine (shot by Shoichi Aoki)
The holy grail to street style – FRUiTS Magazine – sees iconic Japanese photographer Shoichi Aoki take photos of Japanese street goers in the 90s and compile a magazine that became renown for its look into Japanese Harajuku fashion, and its other subcultures. It’s basically the bible for all things Harajuku fashion.