Then there were tourists who saw the photographers and thought I was someone in fashion, so they started taking pictures of me. I was wearing a Yohji Yamamoto suit and this very obscure Chanel bag, and photographers came and started taking pictures of me. I was racking my brain trying to think of a good name when I met a friend for lunch near Fashion Week.
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View full post on Instagram Where does the name “Accidental Icon” come from? Here, she explains her unlikely career trajectory and what sets her apart from other fashion bloggers. Earlier this year, she won a modeling contract with Elite Models London and bagged a campaign for Mango - all while keeping her day job as a professor at Fordham University. Since then, her minimal yet statement-making looks and insistence that #AgeIsJustAVariable has garnered her close to 300,000 Instagram followers. Then, in 2014, Slater finally launched her site, Accidental Icon, as a hobby. In 2010, as a creative outlet, she signed up for design and technology courses at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC, where her classmates and professors encouraged her to start a blog. I was also outraged by the sexism in the criminal-justice system at the time and how girls were punished in different ways than boys for things like running away and having sex.” “I identified with girls and women who were resisting categories and societal expectations. “I think this whole notion of feeling boxed in or confined led me to become very interested in the field of criminal justice,” she says. That rebellious and stylish streak continued after Slater graduated: She followed a not-so-straight career trajectory that started with running a live-in unit for delinquent juvenile girls in upstate New York, and later, she became a social worker and a professor. Lyn Slater was rebellious even as a young girl in the 1960s, when she would hang rosary beads from her belt as her way of wearing jewelry.
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