All about me Personal Values & Beliefs 1. What do you fundamentally believe about fashion, communication, and their role in society? 2. Which personal values guide the decisions you make in your creative work? 3. What would you refuse to do in your career, even if it meant success or recognition? 4. What injustices, gaps, or problems in the fashion industry matter most to you? 5. What principles do you want your work to quietly stand for, without having to explain them? Identity & Lived Experience 1. Which life experiences have most influenced how you see the world and your creative voice? NYC- everything
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2. How have challenges, setbacks, or change shaped your perspective? 3. What parts of yourself do you currently hide or soften in your work, and why? 4. What truths about you feel non-negotiable in your personal brand? 5. How do your background and personal journey inform your point of view? Intentions & Purpose 1. Why do you want to work in fashion communication specifically? Tell stories and influence narrative and perspective 2. What do you hope your work will do rather than simply look like? 3. What conversations do you want to start, challenge, or contribute to? 4. Who do you feel responsible to in your creative practice (yourself, a community, a future audience)? Myself and queer community 5. What change, however small, do you want your work to help create? Direction & Ambition acceptance 1. What does success mean to you on your own terms, not industry expectations? Happy and proud with what i do with the people i love 2. What kind of practitioner do you want to become over time? 3. What skills, attitudes, or mindsets do you want to be known for? 4. What do you want collaborators, clients, or employers to trust you with? 5. How should your personal brand support your long-term career direction? Translation into a Visual Brand It should be everything i stand for 1. How can your values and intentions be translated into visual decisions? 2. What should remain consistent in your visual identity, even as your work evolves? 3. What would an authentic visual outcome look like if you stopped trying to please others? 4. How does your visual personal brand act as a filter for opportunities you do and do not want? 5. If your personal brand were a promise, what would you be committing to?