Feed or outfit: What represent you the most?

Thinking about me as a teenager, are coming up all the times that I looked up for the right dress, fitting jeans and the perfect filter for my Instagram. All this just to show the world the best part of me.

As the beautiful Leeighton Meester said while playing Queen B: fashion is the most powerful art there is. It's movement, design and architecture all in one. Shows the world who we are and who we would like to be.

And it's so true, isn't it?

For a few years, social media has been making inroads into this field, proposing unrealistic models of beauty that lead us to want to show the best of ourselves (even if it's a little fake).

In order to go deeply about it, I spoke with Riccardo, a 23 year old boy who already has clear ideas about who he is and how he wants to show himself.

What do you identify with most?

My outfits represent me the most. I'm not so connected to social media and rarely post photos that describe me.

How do you select your clothes? Beyond the models themselves, I prefer buying from brands that don't exploit children or other illegal workers. As for my style, I am halfway between elegance and eccentricity.

How important are current trends to you? Almost zero. I'm quite tuned on fashion trend, but I don't follow it: It's a circular sistem so, in the end, everybody look the same.

Unfortunately I often find myself looking at a group of people and not being able to distinguish individuals.

Are there colors that you avoid a priori and others that stand out in your wardrobe? Yellow is definitely a taboo color for me, I don't like how it looks on me, instead, I prefer dark colors like brown, blue and grey.

What part of you do you let emerge on social media?

The empathetic one, I guess: I mainly post photos with my friends and family, especially during anniversaries or birthdays.

About you: How much can people say they know you just through your feed? I can't give you a precentage, I think that my interests clearly emerge from my social (especially from my biography); so I would say enough."

Nowadays we often hear about the toxicity of social media, because they distort reality or in any case filter it, but to be honest in person we never show 100% of ourselves. So, on your social media you express your interest in politics and current affairs: Is this something that also transpires in reality or is it limited to online platforms? Well, actually it's an interest of mine that I don't worry about hiding, both online and in real life. Considering that a person's political ideas, if too far from mine, can affect a possible friendship, it's better to clarify things straight away."

Wherever on social media or in real life, always be you, because a touch-up today won't make you smile tomorrow.

See you soon

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