It’s no longer important to take frantic actions three times a day to increase my audience. Outreach on Instagram, even this blog, is sporadic. I willingly decline all the events I am still invited to in New York City. No permissions needed to leave my enclosure. No more sponsored posts, commercials, or fashion shoots. “Accidental Icon” has also passed away, not me Lyn Slater, I am very much alive, but the persona and energy I was as the Icon no longer exists. I’ve been smart about saving enough until I collect Social Security in June. I cease most economic activity save for some long-term social work commitments that will end this year. I am waiting for my editor’s feedback on this first draft as I write this. During this time, I write and turn in a book. I have a new kitchen and I plant an herb garden. During this time I am blessed with a new grandson, I experience Covid. The busy birds remind me of her nervous energy as do the buzzing bees sipping on my herbs and flowers. I feel her when I sit outside looking at the river. Christmas Day will be one year since my mother’s spirit has rejoined the natural world. A grille is a place of separation from the world yet it is also a place where the world is encountered but on ones terms this space has allowed me to deeply reflect. I’ve experienced the world as if I have been on one side of a monastery grille. Rarely, under certain circumstances, one gets permission to leave.įor the past year, I have mourned the death of my mother and, for the most part, cloistered myself in my new/old home. It is a monastic lifestyle, set apart from the world with limited access, that allows others to come in. Separation can be literal as in walls and grilles, and figurative as in prioritizing spiritual life and prayer over economic or outreach activity. Also referred to as enclosed, cloistered orders of nuns are those whose members strictly separate themselves from the affairs of the world. Age should have nothing to do with it, because fashion is for everyone.When I was a young girl, I went through a period when I wanted to be a nun not just any kind of nun, but one who was cloistered. If she is to be a brand ambassador or product endorser, she should do it because she embodies the label's philosophy or style no differently than her younger contemporaries. Now that she's built a sphere of influence and has fully accepted her new role, she's also gone on to say that she refuses to work on age-specific projects and campaigns, explaining that she does not want to to be the heroine of a consumer bracket separated from the mainstream because of age. In other words, she's aware that she's older, but so what? Did being in her sixties mean she needed to put a cap on her self-expression? Is there an invisible barrier between "young" and "old" that stops mature women from being fashionable? Her answer is a resounding "no." Is she happy and comfortable at her age? Absolutely, without a doubt. #black #blackandwhite #earrings #dumbo #brooklyn #net #grid #mcm #subtlesimple #diorsunglasses #updo #ageisnotavariable #sandalsĪ post shared by Accidental Icon on at 4:20am PDT Women of the same age bracket as well as younger ladies flocked to her website because of how cool and non-conforming she was. They came for her shopping hauls, travel entries, and fashion inspirations that had her decked out in head-to-toe designer outfits that oozed effortless NYC street style. Soon afterwards, Lyn launched her blog,, in 2010 simply as a hobby, but unexpectedly saw it morph into a statement on ageism. She decided to make use of the design and technology courses she took at New York's prestigious Fashion Institute of Technology, where she was constantly encouraged to build an online presence. The New York native, who had previously anchored her life on a career in criminal justice and social welfare, took it as a sign to officially pursue her love of fashion and all things creative. #knowyourstuff #fashion #editorialphotography #fashionsystem #fashionandart #fashionhistory #fashionphotography #newcomversationsĪ post shared by Accidental Icon on at 6:54am PDT The Visual Conversation Series: Fashion and Society. Head in the clouds? Get grounded and know your stuff.
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