70s Skirts and White Button Ups

September 16, 2015, 12:27 pm

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These are a set of photos I took in Portland back in August, which feels like eons ago. However, this is basically still an outfit I'm wearing all the time, because the 70s are back, baby. And I am so so excited about that. State of G sent over this white blouse and I didn't know what to do with it at first (because often I feel like they should be relegated to offices and offices only) but rolling up the sleeves and tying it at the waist I think I've found my new favorite way to update button ups.

Meanwhile, I've been attempting to reorganize my life as I fell into terrible housing issues at school and am now re-thinking the entire next year. But that may include a summer spent in New York studying art and interning, and who could say no to that?

Vintage 70s skirt, State of G white poplin blouse, Urban Outfitters black sandal, Oliver Peoples sunglasses.

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Fall Jumpsuit and Sweater

September 25, 2015, 6:15 pm

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School is already well under way and its been so hot. These are photos from August because right now all I can wear it linen dresses and skirts. I can't wait till it cools down and I can finally break out my favorite winter coats.



Urban Renewal jumpsuit, Brochu Walker sweater, Vans slip ons, Oliver People's sunglasses, Forever 21 hat.

On Why I Love Overalls

October 12, 2015, 10:00 am

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In 2013, I started film school at USC with a basic idea of the stories I loved but with little idea of which stories I wanted to make. I knew I adored specific, quirky films like The Royal Tenenbaums and broad comedies like Bridesmaids... yet somewhere in there I also found myself devouring movies like Oblivion and Prometheus and JJ Abrams' Star Trek. My tastes, I felt, were all over the place. But throughout the last 2+ years of college, I've consumed probably enough media to last a lifetime but through that, I've finally come to the conclusion that Science Fiction was the genre I most feel at home with. There's something about the worlds and ideas that are created that ultimately leave me completely inspired and impassioned.

Which brings me to this summer. As I was directing my first big short film (read about that here) I realized that I needed to plunge into the aesthetics/world of what I wanted to appear on screen in order to really get a sense and make the right choices when I got on set (side note: when you're working on such a low budget, you basically inhabit every role: director, writer, producer, set designer, costume designer etc. and so on). The character I wrote in the short has been stripped of his personality (you'll see what I mean soon!) and so I put him in basic tees and cargo pants, which is what I also had been wearing off camera too. From cargo pants I expanded into jumpsuits and overalls and fell absolutely in love with the roomy interiors and zippers and pockets that weren't just aesthetically interesting but also practical as hell. They reminded me of my favorite protagonists (like Kate from LOST and Dr. Halloway in Prometheus) who were badass and immensely capable and somehow managed to looked amazing and totally feminine in "manly" oversized pants and plain tank tops and simple make up. Now, when I need to feel empowered and in charge, I grab these vintage deadstock Liberty overalls and I'm out the door in no time. From now on, I'm just trying to channel that sci-fi aesthetic.

Urban Renewal Liberty overalls, Birkenstock Arizona slip ons (on sale now!), Forever 21 tank and vintage gold necklace.

xox

New Beginnings

November 16, 2015, 10:00 am

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Wow. It has ben such a long, long time since I last posted. The longest in the history of this blog, in fact-- which has been a part of my life for 7 years now. The future is uncertain in a lot of ways but I'd love to be able to explain my absence on here.

In the last several weeks, I moved from my house-- where I was commuting from school for a month-- to a beautiful historical West Adams victorian mansion, left my internship of this summer, almost went insane during midterms, made a ton of new friends I envision knowing for a long time... and totaled my car. These photos below are from the day of the crash-- taken a couple hours before. I'm putting them up and releasing them so I can hopefully begin the healing process. It's been both challenging and immensely rewarding to learn how to navigate life without a car. For one, its placed me firmly in school-- a good thing considering most of my adult life has been spent driving around LA's traffic-ridden streets, even when I should probably be in the library studying. It's also allowed me to trust and depend on others (something I've felt hesitant to do in the past) as well as required me to let go of the reigns a little bit and see where life takes me. I'm not sure when I'll get behind the wheel again (theoretically I have an internship lined up for the spring) but for now I'm learning to live in a different way.

These photos are of my new room in the house. The bedding is all from Urban Outfitters as well as the lamp, which I adore. I also put up some of my film photos because I've been getting back into photography lately. Hopefully some of that will show up on the blog soon, but for now, I hope my absence has been a little bit explained. You can still follow my day to day on instagram as well.


Plum and Bow pom pom duvet cover, Assembly home shaggy pillow, Hooked stripe weave pillow, Gumball desk lamp, and firefly string lights.

Until next time xox

Just wanna be in bed

November 23, 2015, 2:56 pm

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My friends just moved into an apartment in Venice and we took these photos last weekend after exploring Abbott Kinney and enjoying the cold weather. I've been throwing on this marled gray American Apparel crop with my favorite denim as of late. The semester is almost over and-- by osmosis-- the year, and I couldn't be more thankful to turn over a new leaf. Some amazing things have happened in the last several months, but I'm looking to get back into a groove with a new internship and hopefully new car. For now, I just wanna lie in bed and try to plow through the ten books I've got in rotation at all times.


American Apparel knit crop top, Calvin Klein jeans, Uniqlo white sweatshirt and Calvin Klein Modern Cotton bra top and underwear.

xox

2016, baby

January 8, 2016, 12:22 am

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Writing on here used to feel like a task, and then it felt like a joy, and then it didn't feel like anything at all. I've been doing this for seven years, which is a hell of a long time to devote yourself to something. It's been at once an outlet and a platform; a broadcast and a diary. The last couple months were too frenetic and varied to find any sort of stability with posting, but with the turn of the new year I'm feeling it's time for a change. I want to put an emphasis on the art aspect of all of this, not just the flagrant commercialism (and by osmosis, capitalism gah) that can be associated with this type of medium. It can be easy to get caught up in fashion's glitzy world of trend and consumption, and I've always battled that line both within myself and on here too. With the new year, and my goal of "amping it up" in all aspects of my life (read: writing every day, wearing heels wherever, leather jackets where its not appropriate etc.) I also want to dive into that elusive more on the blog. Maybe that means less posts, but quality over quantity, right?

For now, here are some images that feel evocative to me. Being delicate and feminine but still powerful and in charge, with swimsuits and body love and bomber jackets that make you feel like a NASA pilot-to-be. Here's to a great year. 2016, baby.

xox

Muse

February 1, 2016, 7:21 pm

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This bomber jacket fell into my possession a couple hours before boarding a plane from Portland to Los Angeles just in time for the new year. It was green, it was oversized and it seemed to be the natural progression from the litany of army jumpsuits I wore all of last summer. In short, I had to take it home, even if it meant wearing three layers of coats on the flight back. Since then, I have yet to experience a morning where I haven't instinctively reached for it first thing. It feels almost as if the jacket is my muse, which I'm kind of into. The fashion industry has long championed the muses as inspiration for brands and designers, but most often its felt that it was singularly the women who could inspire the men (Sofia Coppola for Marc Jacobs, Carine Roitefield for Tom Ford, among many others). Why not take an inanimate object and have it inspire, yea?


Vintage bomber jacket and Levis 501s, yellow birkenstocks and Vince bag.

film and the future

February 20, 2017, 10:30 pm

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When I took my break from blogging in early 2016, I always thought there was a possibility I might return to it. After all, it was the primary form of expression in my life for 8+ years. But of course, as time would have it, a break of weeks turned into months, and now, a full year since my last entry, I have to acknowledge that The Stylish Wanderer doesn't seem to have the place it once did in my life anymore. But as I'm writing this I realize that it's okay.

On the set of my newest sci-fi short-film Farmhouse

Instead of photography, I've turned my gaze towards film, realizing my love for science-fiction has been an undercurrent in the stories I've consumed my entire life-- and something I want to spend the rest of my life dedicated to. In September, I wrote and directed my second sci-fi short, Farmhouse, which I'm currently editing and hoping for a late 2017 release date. My first sci-fi film got me into the Sundance Ignite Fellowship for 2017 and last month I headed to the festival for five incredible, life changing days.

This blog, of course, has given me years of creative expression and an outlet to connect with so many wonderful readers. I wouldn't trade that time or those memories for anything. A lot of my love for visuals and story-telling can be seen early on in this very blog. I am so lucky to have experienced the rise of an art form that now has taken on a completely crazy life of its own in pop culture-- when in the beginning it was just a handful of girls on the Teen Vogue forums learning about personal style and identity. Now, I've had the chance to interview with Teen Vogue, and work with brands like American Apparel and Forever 21 and Urban Outfitters, film an episode of The Comeback and shoot a Verizon Wireless commercial. And I am so grateful for each of those experiences. But now, as I graduate from USC, finish four years of learning and interning and writing and thinking, I'm ready to tackle a new world.

Braving the cold @ Sundance, January 2017

There’s a line in a sci-fi movie that goes: “el Movimiento es vida.” Movement is life. Brad Pitt says it to a family during the zombie apocalypse in order to convince them to leave the city. It’s a line I’ve returned to again and again in the time since I first heard it, several steps up from the age old adage my mother drilled into me growing up: “Change is a good thing.” I’ve always hated change, but somehow this version of the same idea tricks my brain into thinking, yeah, maybe change is good. Movement is life.

If you want to keep up with everything in my life, (including all things film and sci-fi and LA, oh my!), follow me on instagram @minnie.schedeen.

Hope to see you around and thank you for reading.

xox

Minnie

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