Not following trends is the newest trend itself. Personal style outweighs the popular, which senior Isabella Huntington expresses with her outfits on the daily.
While trends and micro-trends are at an all-time high across the media, students like Huntington find it important to find a sense of personal style instead of fitting a common mold. She finds it important to buy clothes second-hand to achieve this.
“I think it’s better to thrift your clothes for originality,” said Huntington. “It helps you find your own unique style because you get to wear things that not everyone else has.”

Huntington often wears items that she finds at the Goodwill “bins” or Hollywood Vintage, such as the patchwork vest shown in her style profile. Many of the thrifted pieces that she wears are items that no other student owns, unlike the pieces in popular retail stores.
“Thrifting definitely exposes me to different clothes,” said Huntington. “I like that the things I find are so different from the stuff you would see in regular fast fashion stores.”
This is not to say that Huntington ignores current fashion trends altogether. She simply changes the way she looks at them.
“I do follow trends, but only to a certain degree,” she said. “I’ll pick and choose trends that I like, but I’ll mix them with other unique things I don’t see other people wearing.”
To Huntington, it’s not about following trends just to fit in. It’s about following trends that truly align with her personal style and can be found while thrifting.
“I try to balance what’s popular with what I like,” she said. “It’s important to me that my style is unique.”