00:05Hello darlings it's Yinka here and it is fashion month so I'm gonna be hanging out
00:09with and having a diet coat break with a blogger Monique Dow talking all things fashion baby so
00:16you studied fashion yeah did you find that influenced you to start a blog um kind of so
00:24I did fashion design at uni and then had no money so then I interned and then I was lucky
00:30enough to
00:30fall into styling and then it was my clients who asked for a blog I had no idea what a
00:35blog was
00:36and they asked for it and then one day my assistant at work made me one and then it
00:40just rolled from there so I didn't initially mean to do it it just happened can you describe your
00:46style in three words um that's really hard um I normally say um simple chic and eclectic um like
00:58a mixture of three um because I like like minimal is never gonna go out of fashion keeping it chic
01:04um
01:04and expensive looking is always gonna be in trend um but then eclectic you want a bit of fun so
01:11I
01:12like having a bit of fun as well as that whose wardrobe would you most like to raid um I
01:20love the
01:21Olsen twins um they are so chic and nothing like they were like in their teeny bopper age um they're
01:30really kind of classic and but still quite grunge um they did they have their own uh range as well
01:37and
01:37their stuff is just amazing but super expensive so yeah I'd take their wardrobe if I could
01:42what do you think is going to be the next big trend um tartans coming back like full-on tartan
01:49um this is a very amazing like one shoulder um midi well they're they're midi but they're maxi on me
01:57um tartan dresses so I can't wait to get them out so what is the best styling tip that you
02:02have ever
02:02learned um I learned early in my career that you can play around with proportions quite a lot um
02:09so like people say when they were saying about oh you know you're so short but you wear midi dress
02:14I'll normally still do an oversized top as well but I'll tuck it in so I play with proportions quite
02:20a lot I think that's quite fun so is there one fashion rule that you always stick to um yeah
02:26I
02:26always before I leave the house I always take one thing off so I'll look in the mirror and take
02:31off
02:31an accessory or like a scarf or a piece of jewelry just to kind of keep it paired back a
02:36little bit
02:36so not my t-shirt no no no no keep your clothing on just just accessories well Monique thank you
02:42for
02:42taking a diet coat break with me thank you for having me
