The Fit, The Fab and The Face: Outfit and Inspo Thread

[danielledanielle]

I realized we don't have an OOTD, outfit of the day thread, which isn't needed but can still be a lot of fun.  It's dress up for me, but make it adult.

This was part spurred by my natural hair journey, Tress Trek - A Transition Journal from Relaxer to Natural and NYFW and Zendaya.  99% Zendaya.

The Fit- this can be your attire, or what has arisen from the Capsule Challenge, your makeup bag.  Hair and fragrance "fits" count, too


The Fab - What you loved enough to be inspired by or loved the most about your look


The Face - the proooodduccctsss, so I can add to my loves list, y'all. Or a pic of your face

Note: posting your actual self is optional.  Feel free to post pics or lists of what you included.  This really is about seeing what others are doing and getting inspired to try or retry things.

Also feel free to cross post to existing threads (and browse)

Capsule Makeup Collection Challenge 2025 

What are you wearing in 2025?? 

How Are You Styling Your Hair Today? 

What are you wearing, Fragrance edition! 

[danielledanielle]

Lewk drop ☔ 

Spook Szn

The Fit: I think this is Adam Lippes x RTR suit I purchased awhile back.  It has pockets and it's so forgiving

The Fab: Eartha Kitt, daaahhhrrrlllinnnggg

Also 

The Face: Mine came out more Black Swan, but the gist is there.  This is Danessa meets Danessa.  Lightwork VII with Danessa Myricks Beauty Groundwork: Defining Neutrals - Palette For Eyes, Brows, Face & Lips and MAKE UP FOR EVER Artist Color Pencil Longwear Eyeliner 100 Whatever Black 

The Fit: Thebe Magugu with Wrangler Jacket and Aerosole boots and earrings from (?????)

The Fab: a bird of paradise.  Hear me out.  I took myself out on a date, and really wanted to wear this dress because it's pretty sheer and soon it'll be too 🥶.  The dress itself is bird like, so I decided to lean into it in a way

The Face: Lightwork VII for a colorful smoky halo

The Fit: Tan BR pants and button up. RTR for the Maison Margiela Cape... This was an immediate purchase.  Like, do I need a cape?!? [YES]
The Fab: 70s/autumn tones with an overall Dandy feel.  Plus I just stole the colorway off the stock photo.

The Face: I think that was face mapping week, so I think this was Kevyn Aucoin Eye Contour Palette Deep and #Rare Beauty by Selena Gomez Warm Wishes Effortless Cream Bronzer Stick Good Energy with Armani Beauty Luminous Silk Creamy Bronzing Powder that or my girl, Groundwerk 

[Sunnysmom]

Love all of your looks @danielledanielle , you’re so creative it’s crazy. Love Eartha especially! 💞👻

[danielledanielle]

@Sunnysmom , ahhhh thank you.  That means a lot.  This is how I have my fun ☺️

[itsfi]

Woah!!! These looks @danielledanielle! Gorge x 3!!! 😻😍😍 That dandy inspired look is beautiful. And loving your hair in all these frames.

💯 you need a cape. Trust me, you did the right thing in purchasing it. Dare I say, you may need another in a different color as well. I’ve never regretted my capes. 

btw, your skin is looking amaze, keep up that routine! 

[danielledanielle]

Thank you! 

My skin? I'm going to give BIC super duper compression the credit here because I've been breaking out, but that's gotten better.

[itsfi]

@danielledanielle, I would not know about the breakouts if you didn't say anything. If it's due to BIC super duper compression, I would like to add that to my list for the holiday savings event. 😂 I could use it for my breakouts, which seem to be popping up weekly. 😣 

[blackkitty2014]

Lady you’re so fabulous you @danielledanielle … I love ❤️ all your cat makeup and outfits. 

[danielledanielle]

TY @blackkitty2014 

I do actually think you're quite fabulous

[caitbird]

@danielledanielle OMG I love *allll* of these looks!!! You always look so fabulous, it's seriously inspirational (aspirational?)! Love the spooky Eartha Kitt look - are those cat ears?! And I love that you took inspiration from a bird of paradise with that *fantastic* outfit/look, that's amazing! I've always wanted to do some looks inspired by my favorite birds...hmm, something to think about 🤔

Thank you for sharing this amazingness!!! 💜

[danielledanielle]

Ohhhh, you should have not told me this...I dare you, NO, challenge you to come back to this thread with wildlife inspo @caitbird ...that is such a good theme!!!!!!   Aviary and the accessories...Audubon Austere...girl, let's go!  Caw caw!! 🐦

(And thank you)

[danielledanielle]

The Fit: RTR, cinq a Sept.  The top and pant are purchases from there as well.  Flats, jewelry, mine.

The Fab: More Love for Lou from Ocean's 8 .

Enjoying this version of suiting, plus I added a 90s feel with the bunched up curls and hoops.

The Face: I took this from a runway look, smoky burgundy eyes.. Wanna say Milan, Gucci show but if I go to check, I'll get logged out 😑

 

This was achieved largely with Natasha Denona.  NATASHA DENONA Mini Bronze Eyeshadow Palette (midi) and her Eye Sculpt, Texture and Tone Dramatic + VIOLETTE_FR YEUX PAINT Liquid Eyeshadow & Eyeliner Paris La Nuit 

And.... We've entered moody lip szn!  This is Fenty Beauty by Rihanna Stunna Lip Paint Longwear Fluid Lip Color I'm Unlawful with Ami Colé Soft Shape Waterproof Lip Liner Midnight .  I touched it up with Eadem's Pan au Chocolat when it got a little dry 🤌🏽🤌🏽

[danielledanielle]

Leaving this here -  long read, but I think it's inspiring (kindness) and something to think about.  Even with the recent passing of Giorgio Armani, it's a reminder that looking good and feeling good is for everyone.

When Cruelty Is In Style, the Most Promising Fashion Pushes Back

Fresh off her book about Virgil Abloh, Robin Givhan reflects on designers who embrace optimism and community

By Robin GivhanPublished: Sep 10, 2025

For a little sliver of recent history, fashion seemed to be creative and welcoming, as well as increasingly profitable. In short, fashion was everything that most anyone could want it to be. It wasn’t perfect—far from it. But it seemed to be making real strides toward being the best possible version of itself.

The body-positivity movement successfully pushed for a range of physiques to be celebrated on the runway, in advertising, and in magazines. Corporate gatekeepers were making a conscious effort to open the doors to those who had been historically marginalized. Diversity, equity, and inclusion were desirable aspects of the cultural conversation. Gender was a big, beautiful, blurry spectrum. And Virgil Abloh’s rise, from 2013 until his death in 2021 at the age of 41, was proof that if fashion only widened its aperture, a lot of talent on the periphery would come into focus.

Fashion exuded optimism, and optimism looked good.

I’ve spent the last two years devoting much of my time to understanding the fashion world that Virgil Abloh created. Abloh, of course, was the first Black artistic director for Louis Vuitton menswear and the founder of Off-White. He made history and broke barriers, all while helping a great many disenfranchised people who loved fashion, who especially adored its big designer brands, feel as though they were part of an exclusive universe. He somehow managed to make the rarefied feel welcoming.

Abloh’s incredibly short but impactful career was the subject of my research, which resulted in Make It Ours: Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh. The book is a biography but also a cultural history of the changes within the fashion landscape that allowed Abloh—who hadn’t gone to design school, boasted a long list of apprenticeships, or been the scion of a fabulously wealthy family—to succeed.

There were many reasons for Abloh’s success. The first, of course, was that he was talented. The others had to do with the rising importance of menswear, sneakers, social media, and Black men in the fashion ecosystem. But a significant contributing factor to Abloh’s success was his sense of optimism.

“A little bit of how I got to where I’m at, I’m even keel. I’m also an optimist. I do believe the world can be a better place. I formally say yes to that,” Abloh once said.

Abloh understood that optimism was foundational to the clothes he created—some great, a lot just okay, and others that were, well, not good—but, more importantly, it was fundamental to the way in which he engaged with his customers. If he could achieve, they could achieve. He relished his success, but he delighted in the success of others with undeniable gusto. His Instagram page was akin to a group chat about creativity and possibility. Abloh was nice. This was the word, more than any other, that people used to describe him to me. Kindness was his currency, and it was a down payment on his achievement.

“I’m not saying that Abloh was successful because he was nice,” said Fraser Cooke, who worked with Abloh on a sneaker collaboration at Nike. “He seemed to be genuinely open and evenhanded with everyone.”

“I think that made people warm to him and want to work with him,” Cooke told me. “And unfortunately, not so many people are like that. It’s very special.”

Indeed, kindness is rarer than it need be in fashion. But right now, it’s in short supply for the whole country. We are moving deeper into a presidential administration that brags about its meanness. The modern tech industry is less interested in subscribing to a motto that once warned, “Don’t be evil” and now seems perfectly happy to break both things and people. Along with these political and business shifts, the aesthetic mood has taken a turn too. It’s moved toward gender stereotypes with tradwives and the misogynistic villainy of the manosphere. Money has become a measure of human value rather than a form of security and a means to buying cool stuff that brings delight.

Meanness has ceased being an unfortunate by-product of striving for a pot of gold; it’s become the point of the journey itself. Many images exemplify the current political, social, and aesthetic climate, but one of the most searing involves Kristi Noem and a gold watch.

Noem is the secretary of Homeland Security, which is the governmental agency tasked with overseeing the Trump administration’s goal of deporting some 3,000 undocumented immigrants per day. Attempts to reach that number have involved masked federal agents corralling men and women on the street, in parking lots, and during traffic stops. Housing these detainees has proved challenging. Before the administration unveiled Alligator Alcatraz—a somewhat wobbly detention center constructed amid the Florida Everglades, with its hurricanes, mosquitoes, and aforementioned reptiles­—much of the public’s attention was focused on the government’s decision to send its detainees to an enormous warehouse prison in El Salvador known as the Terrorism Confinement Center.

“FASHION is truly fashion when it INSPIRES US to be more AUTHENTICALLY OURSELVES rather than some PRESCRIBED version.”

As Noem toured the Latin American facility and talked to the gathered media about crime, deportation, and immigration, she was wearing a long-sleeved white T-shirt, gray drawstring trousers, a Homeland Security baseball cap … and an 18-karat-gold watch that sells for roughly $50,000.

The watch might have gone unnoticed, but Noem recorded a video in which she stood in front of a cellblock filled with prisoners stacked on top of one another like cords of wood. As she warned migrants who might be considering coming to the United States that the Salvadoran prison could well be their fate, light reflected off of the watch’s gold band. Her brown hair cascaded past her shoulders in Utah curls. And her makeup was camera-ready, if not downright glamorous.

There was something vicious in Noem’s flirtations with old-fashioned Breck-girl glossiness and her display of wealth. Everything about Noem’s appearance delivered the message that not only was she more privileged than the imprisoned men, she was also more human. She was all-American, the way it used to be defined back in the 1950s. The prisoners staring into the camera had had their heads shaved. Many of them were shirtless. Those who were fully clothed wore white prison uniforms whose overarching purpose is to destroy any sense of individuality and autonomy.

Over the years, there’ve been a lot of fashion trends that gave those who embraced them a 🤬 froideur. Fashion has churned through all sorts of buttoned-up, trussed-up styles that were meant to convey wealth and status and s3x appeal but also had the effect of glazing the wearer in ice. I’m thinking back to the Masters of the Universe era, with its social X-rays and its Wall Street titans. The clothes back then, the power ties and Armani suits, as well as the Christian Lacroix poufs, were about extravagance and power, but there was also something louche and, well, good-humored about them. They were a celebration of personal success.

Now the clothes seem to be celebrating others’ failures or their inability to measure up to a backward standard of femininity or masculinity or patriotism. Or whatever.

The tech bros of the past reveled in their ability to move through the halls of power as schlumpily as they liked. Those hoodies and saggy jeans suggested a kind of idealism about power—that it shouldn’t be passed along through bloodlines, that it didn’t have to be bound up in traditions and assumptions, that it could be nimble and aimed at opening the world and connecting people across boundaries. But so many of the tech leaders have now draped themselves in MAGA meanness—a style of dress that is almost cartoonish in its malevolence.

During the height of his slashing of government programs and jobs, Elon Musk stood onstage at a conference for conservative activists in his Dark MAGA baseball cap and held up a chainsaw like a trophy. Mark Zuckerberg, whose Facebook has made distinguishing between fact and disinformation increasingly more difficult, has given himself a makeover. Now, instead of looking like an idealistic adolescent with a crew cut and wearing a hoodie, he’s grown out his hair, he wears a gold medallion engraved with a Jewish prayer he sings to his children at bedtime, and he occasionally wears a gold chain that he said was gifted to him by the rapper T-Pain. The combination gives the effect of cosplaying a cyber tough guy—not a dad prepping for an evening lullaby. And Amazon founder Jeff Bezos long ago transformed from a bookish entrepreneur into a sunglass-wearing, tight-T-shirt-sporting, pumped-up billionaire who has insinuated that all the regulations aimed at protecting the environment, the less fortunate, and democracy as we know it have somehow held back financial growth in this, the richest of all countries.

Meanness is in style. Cruelty has become a kind of aesthetic flourish. So many of the cultural references touch on strict gender iconography. Women: long flowing hair, formfitting dresses in bright colors, heels, jewelry, big furs, tight dresses. Men: power suits, pomaded hair, guns (whether biceps or otherwise), red ties, red ties, red ties.

But fashion is truly fashion when it inspires us to be more authentically ourselves rather than some prescribed version. Fashion is at its best when it pushes back against pessimism and celebrates optimism, when it finds inspiration in outsiders—the eccentrics and goofballs—not the privileged.

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The most memorable recent collections have come from designers who aim to delight their audiences with quirkiness and youthful energy. Or those who embrace the seriousness of the times but also express a stubborn belief that the way forward is with determination and kindness.

Jonathan Anderson approached his Dior debut for the Spring 2026 menswear collection with respect for the house’s history but a willingness to be playful with it, to mix Easter-egg colors into Dior gray, to not get bogged down with gender traditions, to leaven fussiness with ease. It was a collection that left you wanting to lean in to see everything in greater detail. Willy Chavarria’s beautiful Spring 2026 collection, also shown in Paris in June, dramatically acknowledged the Trump administration’s attack on immigrants. To the strains of “California Dreamin’,” sung in both English and Spanish, Black and brown models in oversize white T-shirts walked down the runway and knelt in formation like so many deportees had been forced to do after they were shipped off to prison without due process. But the collection, which was titled Huron, after the Mexican-American designer’s hometown in California’s San Joaquin Valley, also included elegant, confident men and women in shades of sunshine yellow, persimmon, and teal. It celebrated the swagger, vibrancy, and optimism inherent in being of recent immigrant stock. Fashion is at its most remarkable when it helps amplify, rather than drown out, that tiny voice in the back of your mind saying that just maybe, a dream can become reality.

Abloh knew that to be true. For a long time, he was an outsider peering into a glamorous, cool, sophisticated world. He loved fashion, not because it made him feel more powerful than others or better than anyone else. He loved it because it made him feel like he was part of a community. A community built on optimism. Something that’s not only good for fashion, it’s also good for the soul.

This story originally appeared in the September 2025 issue of Harper’s Bazaar.

©2025 Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

[Sunnysmom]

Thanks for this post @danielledanielle . 🙏 His was truly a real loss. This, her commentary and the creative ideas from you guys ⬇️ gives me nostalgia and such good memories from decades past in the world of fashion and design plus some hope for the future as well. Maybe? hashtag kindness. 😔 ❤️

[danielledanielle]

That makes me so glad @Sunnysmom .  I found it a really good read, and wasn't sure about posting it since there's some strong opinions in there.  While I try to keep stuff light, I felt this one was important.  His loss was indeed a big loss.

[Sunnysmom]

I get that @danielledanielle .  I never want to overstep here at all. Such a tricky time and this is a beauty-based forum but still… This all just feels different and important. And I’m so glad you did. 😘

[itsfi]

I thought I was going to take a longer break from drawing inspo from movie characters for my day-to-day dressing. But the Bay Area weather being what it is gave me a couple of opportunities to put together a couple of looks inspired by the Jordans from Ocean's 8 that might not ordinarily be worn in the same season, let alone the same week. 

Who are the Jordans, you ask? (see spoiler - it's been 7 years since the film came out, but if you haven't seen it and don't want to know, don't open the spoiler )

Spoiler

Photo cred: Just Jared
The Jordans of Ocean's 8 would be Rihanna's Nine Ball (aka Leslie) and her little sister, Veronica, who helps the crew figure out how to work their way around the magnet to remove the necklace from the neck of Anne Hathaway's Daphne Kluger as part of the heist taking place during The Met Gala. 

Nine Ball

I decided to reinterpret Nine Ball's polar opposite looks in Ocean's 8. The character's attire is very casual and laid back for the entire movie except for one scene - at The Met Gala with the glam red dress. So I decided to go for street casual with an air of a high fashion sprinkled about. 

The Fit:

• Black square neck, cap sleeve tee, Free People
• Army green, midi cargo skirt - I found this at a boutique when I was traveling 4-5 years ago - I should let go of it but it's one of those pieces that just come in handy on the weekend when it's not warm, but not cold outside but you don't feel like wearing jeans or yoga pants
• Oversized, zippered hoodie, Fear of God Essentials - for the cooler mornings & evenings (mine is not so stark white, more of a light heather white hue)
• Fenty x Puma hat
• Sneakers, Converse x Play Comme Des Garcon Chuck Taylor Chuck 70
• Black hoop earrings (mine are slightly thinner) - bought at the same boutique as the cargo skirt, but maybe 3 years ago?
• Rasta bracelet, from a vendor on Telegraph Avenue (Berkeley, CA) when I was in college - it's vintage at this point

The Fab:

• The hat
• The shoes

The Face (and Fingernails):

• All Fenty, except the nail polish. I'm pretty sure I have a red polish from Dior (Rihanna is the face of Dior J'adore) but I couldn't find it easily. So we're going with Gucci Glossy Nail Polish 25 Goldie Red because it's one of my favorite reds and I could put my hads on it easily. 
• Fenty Beauty by Rihanna Stunna Lip Paint Longwear Fluid Lip Color Uncensored, blotted and lightly topped with a little Fenty Beauty by Rihanna Plush Puddin’ Intensive Recovery Lip Mask With Pomegranate Sterols + Vitamin... to keep my lips moisturized. Gotta get that red in there.

Veronica Jordan

The Fit:

• Plaid blouse, Rails - this was from a few years back, and I bought it because it reminded me of a shirt I had when I was in high school, definitely not from Rails back then, probably from Mervyn's
• Barrel Jeans, Frame - credit goes to @PDXXXX for these. I never would have ever thought I could pull off barrel jeans, but here we are.
• Navy jacket, J Crew - it's like windbreaker and bomber jacket in one
• adidas Superstar 80 ADV
• Army green cotton backpack 
• Adjustable bracelet, Stella & Dot (from a long time ago, maybe close to when they first started actually) - chose it because it has nine silver balls, as sorta an homage to the Nine Ball character 😉
• Not shown in the collage, but I also wore the earrings worn for the Nine Ball inspired look because don't little sisters "borrow" things from their older siblings?! 🤣

The Fab:

• The top, because it's a throwback - styles do come back around
• The Fenty makeup bag because I really wanted it, thought I had missed out on it, and then months later saw it was included as a promo giveaway at an event 🙌
• Lip look is one of my fall go to's that I've trying out for the last month and a half, a red-brown / brown-red lip combo posted to Lips on Lock 🔐: List Your Lip Combos 💄👄 - Fenty Beauty by Rihanna Trace'd Out Longwear Waterproof Pencil Lip Liner Brown'd Out HAUS LABS BY LADY GAGA Color Fuse Longwear Hydrating Glassy Lip + Cheek Blush Balm Stick Glassy Clov... Rare Beauty Lip Oil Blaze (new-ish so I'm not able to tag it)

The Face (and Fingernails):

• Mostly Fenty - Fenty Beauty by Rihanna Hydra Vizor Huez Tinted Moisturizer Broad Spectrum Mineral Spf 30 Sunscreen ... Fenty Beauty by Rihanna Cheeks Out Freestyle Cream Blush 10 Rosé Latte and lip combo above
• DIOR Nail Glow Polish 0.3oz / 10 mL - it's usually this or Canmake Nai Hardener on my nails most days

[danielledanielle]

VICTORIA JORDAN?!?!  How do you come up with these?!? @itsfi 

I want that hat.  I know you listed the deets, but I should avert my eyes.

Gucci Glossy Nail Polish 25 Goldie Red is a beautiful red, and perfect tie in!

Oh yes, barrel jeans.  They are excellent transition pieces, def cred to @PDXXXX 

[itsfi]

lololol @danielledanielle, I thought you would get a kick out of Miss Veronica Jordan, Ocean's 8 resident high school student / professional hacker who spills the beans on Nine Ball's real name. I was trying to get some inspo for Rihanna's looks from the film and I caught sight of the pic of her on set with the actress who plays her sister so I rewatched the movie (and after watching it again, she's like the key to the whole heist being a success, so go Veronica!) I was just really excited when I saw that I actually had a shirt that looked like the one she (Veronica) wears in the film, which yeah, shows that it's an old shirt. 😂 And, again, thanks to Ms. @PDXXXX my look was elevated to something on trend with the barrel jeans. 

Edited to add: You neeeed the hat. I forgot which season / year that hat came out but there are a few different color combos. I remember there was a black with white ribbon one I really wanted but that sold out quick.

[danielledanielle]

The Fit RTR - Thebe Magugu olive blazer with BR satin joggers and silk dress (worn as a shirt) 

The Fab: Still suiting.  The silky and satiny is a nod to @itsfi call to Oceans 8, particularly to Cate Blanchett's Lou.  Also, olive green tones are my neutrals, so I enjoy monochrome or color family looks with them.

 

The Face: Capsule Challenge Wurkhouse Week.. we've got Danessa Myricks Beauty Groundwork: Defining Neutrals - Palette For Eyes, Brows, Face & Lips , Danessa Myricks Beauty Linework Paintbrush Fluid Liquid Eyeliner 0.034 oz / 1 ml , Nars Blush combos and lip combo all in the vein of Mocha Mousse 

[itsfi]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

This turned out so well! I love olive green as a neutral and it looks great with those jogger pants. Lou would be proud @danielledanielle. The sunglasses are so her!