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I help you to show your ever evolving true self, so you and your work can receive the attention and success they deserve.

Love, Marjolein

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  • This is a perfect pants!! Unfortunatley it is not, and I found out on my way to a date... Obviously it fits perfectly. For me finding something that fits me very well is not an excuse to buy it. It is the bare minimum a garment should do. Fit perfectly. The minimum. It is made by @kuyichipuregoods so it is ethically and sustainable. As a former employee of the fashion industry I know it is important to make sure that what we wear is bought with a fair price. I simply want the people that work on the things I own not to be slaves or live in slave-like conditions. Now I cannot (yet) make sure that is the case for everything I own, but I can make sure that is the case with my wardrobe. This is the most important reason why when I look in the mirror and I wear this thing, I feel fantastic. Next up, this pants is unique. Yep, because people kept ripping the fabric next to the seams... For me it was a tear from the front of the zit all the way to the back of the yoke. (you know, the triangle on the back) On my way to a date, I was... I was sure to make an awesome impression. I got a refund, this apperently had happened to a few too many people, but I deceded not to trow it away. Getting a refund seems fair, but the garment should not go to waste if it doesn't have to. So I fixed it. Visible mended a second croch in the inside. And it won't be the last thing I change on this beauty! love, The creativist. #visiblemending #mendingmatters #grey #greymending #kuyichi #zerowaste #nowaste #fairfashion #fashionforward #betterfashion #fashionmatters #fashionforgood #Rethinkyourwardrobe
  • So, you do not know exactly what to wear in the morning? You feel okay, but you don't fly out the door? Not in haste, sure we do that, but in mood. Your clothes do not give you wings? Sometimes you have to go shopping, because you cannot bear your selection at home anymore. You just feel ugly, it doesn't suit you, it looks dated. But you tell yourself if you go to the stores you can find something new that is going to look great! Sure! You visit your favorite stores, not too pricey, not too cheap, and buy some shit there. Sorry, not sorry, I mean shit, not shirt. Because this is just taking you back to the same situation that you are in now! And you know it. It is like a never-ending circle that keeps giving you the same result. So can you make sure you end up a bit better this time? It up to you to cut your circle. It is a choice to keep doing the same thing over and over again, season after season. I want you to stop feeling the urge to go shopping, or at the very least realize why you do it in the first place and solve that. Because that means you may actually start to change towards a wardrobe filled with items that you love. So you can fly out the door. Sure, in haste, but also in feeling great about how you look. love, MJ PS Buy Crap, Feel Crap, No more! Want to know more? Send me a message and I can get you on the waiting list for a conversation that is sure to help you gain some insights!
  • Did you know that I used to wear a lot of grey? I know the colour doesn't work for me, but I still felt most comfortable in it. Want to know why I do not wear it anymore? Hint, it has nothing to do with wether or not it is uplifting for my skin... You will not wear a certain colour even if it is supposed to make you look good if it doesn't work with your emotions. A colour needs to work with how you feel. I have met plenty of people that couldn't work with the colours that were advised to them by the professionals. But it is not always clear to the eye, why that is. There is some inner things at work here too, baby! It would seem that most people divert to black when to do not feel fantastic, but for a long time my favorite colour to wear has been grey. I had items in every type of grey. Light grey, slightly darker grey, mid-gray, even darker grey and a very very dark grey. Oh no, hang on, that was just a very often washed black... Oh, and I almost forgot my melanges. Do you know that grey comes mostly in a melange? A flat grey usually is very difficult colour to wear, more difficult than any other colour. I love me a melange! Anyway, I used to feel great in grey. For a very long time I would have answered it is my favourite colour to wear. Do you know what else looks great in grey? A wall. I didn't realize it at the time, but grey for me also was a way to blend in. I was dressing my mood. Grey is a greyt colour for you, if you do not want to stand out. Experimenting with my clothing comes naturally to me, but that meant I needed grey even more. It made sure I didn't stand out too much. The reason why I did that was because I feared to be noticed as who I am. Showing up as who you are, and nothing more, can be terrifying if you feel inadequate, simply stupid and not good enough. I wish you feel confident enough today, to be wearing what you want! Love, Mj PS If you like me to remind you about things like this, join our group. I try to post an uplifting message every day! #personalgrowth #heartcentred #shiftyourperspective #beautiful #innerbeauty #motivation #soul #BeKind #SelfGrowth #fun #selfie #love #colours #picoftheday
  • Why do I mend things? Cause it makes them more me. There are a lot of other more reasonable reasons. Like money (buying more pricier items can be done by not buying so many cheap) and the environment (less waste on the planet, please). But the most important emotional reason is, it makes them more "me". When I repair things I have a say in what the thing looks like. It is not just the design from some guy/girl/other that I do not know, it is like we worked together. He/she/they designed it, I chose it, now I repaired it, choosing colours that make sense according to me, with the original design. In a way I pay more respect to the original designer by prolonging the items lifespan than by throwing it away, right? And, well, I love not being pushed into buying new simply because what my shoe looks like isn't what is generally though of as worthy. There may be a hole in it, it doesn't mean I have to replace it. 😈 Love, the creativist. #upcycle #recycle #happy #mending #visiblemending #yellow #addidas #repair #beyou #soulpreneur #selfexpression #selfexpressioncoach #creative #creativerepair #coach #bereal #beyourself #durability #duurzaam #ecofriendly #honest
  • (continued from previous post..) For years I tried to fit into the fashion world but I fell out of love. I stopped doing clothes the way I was supposed to do. I didn't need to fit into the fashion-world anymore! I put my creativity at work in my own wardrobe and I found my fashion-moyo again that I had lost. Now the creativity in my own wardrobe was coming back with a vengeance and I loved it. I feel that trendy-fashion is the personality-killer. Trendy fashion is dictating rules. Each season has it's perfect body. The right hemline and the right materials. There is no space to be truly creative within trendy fashion, you just need to pick up the rules really quickly. You need to dress according to those ever changing rules. You will never really do it right, creating a continues feeling of just-not-good-enough, making sure you will never feel confident for long. You will never be happy for long wearing trendy fashion, because it is a force outside of yourself that you are trying to emulate. It is like you are longing for someone's approval that will never come. It is not you. If you want to love what you look like you you need to know what you love to wear and feel, in your heart, you deserve that, too. There are ways to find out what you really like to wear, as there are ways to make sure you love yourself unconditionally. You can align who you are with your actions, with what you buy and wear. You can use your creativity to find, make or buy items that make sense to you for a long time, incorporating sustainability practices. You can use fashion to show off who you really are. Which is the only thing you should strive for in life, Showing up as who you are. Unapologetically. What will that bring you? Love, Marjolein PS not knowing how to do that? I have developed an online course that can get you from not knowing who you are and what to wear to showing up as the real you in three months. Send me a PM if you want to know more. #soulpreneur #bereal #Rethink #rethinkyourwardrobe #businesscoach #fashion #fashiontips #style #trend #thefutureistrendless #beinspirational #inspirator #beyounomatterwhat #beyourself #beyourownboss
  • It is pretty hard to change and see the thing that you loved so much, turn out to be evil... It also meant freedom. For years I tried to do fashion the way it is usually done.... Spotting trends and new things was absolute fun! Looking through books and magazines, planning trips the to most amazing fairs, shopping way beyond dropping point. Translating trends into the looks that we needed, often based on "what the consumer wants" aka sell-outs from previous collections. And this is not all that we did... Absolutely amazing! But draining as hell, too... If anything is a rat-race, the fashion industry is. It's aim is to sell more. That's it. It has invented trends for that reason, fabrics that deteriorate quickly and genders (why sell only one if I can sell two?). More and more seasons. (We have only 4, right?) It is the main propeller behind the ridiculous beauty standard that we hold ourselves against. The problem are not the things that I just listed. The problem is that fashion pretends to fix something but actually makes it worse. If it was true that you could go out, buy stuff and live a happy life, I would not be writing to you now. The problem is that we feel WORSE because of how we experience fashion right now. We are not the right kind of (wo)men, we are not pretty enough, not doing the right things. We are not sporty enough, fashionable enough. We do not have enough friends, do not care enough or care too much. Fashion gives us a fake solution to some very real issues. (If I could look like that I would be successful!) My beloved fashion is cause to so much hurt to people in their homes before they go out and show themselves.... (And I am not even talking about the planet, right now, did you hear it?) I really hated that what I loved so much, tried to be a part of for so long, was creating that hurt. It wasn't right and I turned my back. But I still loved clothes. So now what? (find the answer in my next post!) #bereal #beyou #honest #authentic #slowfashion #fashionrevolution #fashionrevolution #fashionrevolation #fairfashion #fairtrade #corevalues #slowfashion #rethink #rethinkyourwardrobe
  • Am I not worth a new sweater? Everybody buys whatever they want, why shouldn't I go shopping and fill my bag to the brim with the newest of shiny shit? I repaired this sweater a few times over. It has been washed a lot (always hang-dry, preserving it longer) and therefore had some holes in it that I had to repair. It seems that when they stitched the faces on it, obviously the most important part of the design, they also created a vulnerability in the fabric. I had to repair some holes created by the needles stitching through the fabric a few times. I could still decide to buy a new one. This one is old! About 6-7 years old, I guess. A f*cking dinosaur! But I don't. Why? - I still love line drawings. (I know what I love so I can buy things that I will love for a very long time...) - I do not let fashion (aka trends) dictate what I want to wear... (besides, I saw someone proudly posing in a similar fashionable item only a few days ago...) - There is no guarantee that I will love the next sweater I buy as much as this one. - moneywise! I do not want to limit myself to the main street brands. This means I want to be able to invest in an item that is pricey if I feel like it. That means I prolong the lifespan of the items that I do own. - Planet and its people. I am not happy wearing clothes that were made by kids, nor underpaid workers. Also; fashion is a huge polluter, I hate to waste! This is just one sweater! Just one! My wardrobe is filled to the brim with items and things that have an increased meaning. They are more meaningful to me than an item that I do not remember to have bought in a random store. They are an extension to my personality. Yep. Rather than buying flimsy fashion-pieces, I invest in my clothes because I know what works for me. It also means trends, events, people, rules and other things that pretend to know what you are supposed to wear cannot get to me that easily. Do you ever feel insecure about your outfits and how you look? What would you do to change this? What would it take to go from being insecure to having fun with fashion and how you look, again? Love, MJ #bereal #authentic #soul #shine #sweater #faces
  • Are you a creator that wants to show the world what you can do, but you have no idea how to get from where you are now, to where you want to go? Heck, you are even afraid of saying out loud where it is you want to go? All kinds of things got you uncertain. What to wear? What to say? Who to speak to? Is my work good enough? From the 11th of October I will be launching another Rethink-course. It's only for creators who - want to feel good about where they are in life. - want to feel freedom to express themselves wherever they are. - want to wear, write and show who they are according to their core values. - want to grow their fan-base authentically. - want to know how to put their dreams to practice. - want to feel, in their core, their work deservers attention. - want to feel freedom in their expression. I help you to feel grounded enough to wear what it is you want to wear wherever you are, to say what you want to say. I help you to know what it is you want to share with the world, and step by step you will create your own signature style, both online and in the real world. I want to help you to not only leave an impression, but to create an impact on the world around you. Let me know if you want to have a chat. I have here 10 questions waiting for you that we can talk about. They will give you some insights, help us to determine if Rethink is for you, and they will give me an idea what you are really struggling with. Don't hesitate, do it now, Rethink will only open it's doors again sometime next year... Love, Marjolein #slowfashion #slowfashionmovenment #bereal #beyou #rethink #rethinkyourwardrobe #awesome #thefutureistrendless #unique #uniqueyou #uniqueyourdrive #uniqueartist #artist #creator #founder #soulpreneur #coach #creativecoaching #creativecoach #fashion #selfexpressionfashion #individual #uniquepath #uniqueartist #showup #showupforyourself
  • You know I am always on about how your wardrobe is an extension of your personality? It is, you know... The clothing you choose to wear, the style you have, is only one part of your wardrobe where people can see who you are... How often you wear things, (How committed are you? How well do you know yourself?) if you iron or fold neatly or not. (Do you take care of yourself?) How many items you own and where you get them? (do you care about your environment?) How trendy are you? (Do much do you need external validation?) I dare to say; How you treat your clothes is more of a giveaway of who you really are and what your state of mind is than the actual clothes you wear. What does it mean if you keep buying new clothing, because you never seem to find the right outfit? What does it mean if you are afraid to buy expensive clothes? Or do you need fashion and trends and base your buys on them? Why are you so relentlessly following the new sustainability-trends? Why can't I see how creative you are in your outfits? How do you treat your second skin? sorry, not sorry! Take care, Marjolein PS What you wear is the first thing they see. Rather than asking yourself what you want them to think when they see you, would you not want to be strong enough to simply be you? If you want to be enthusiastic about what you see in the mirror, want to know yourself thoroughly and dress according to your core-values, send me a message so we can find out if Rethink your Wardrobe is for you. It takes you for not-knowing what to wear to knowing what to wear at any given moment. #personaldevelopment #stayfashion #beyou #mindset #inspirational #selfdevelopment #coaching #life #personalgrowth #showyourinsideout #selfimprovement #selfexpression #bereal #authentic #leaveanimpact #leaveanimpactnotjustanimpression
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