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"  Seventeen  readers meet Claire Geist, a high schooler whose fashion blog became so popular that Weardrobe.com selected her to attend their New York Conference and blog about it! Read what she has to say at faboomadness.blogspot.com and check out our Q&amp;amp;amp;A with her below! 17: How did you become a Weardrobe selected blogger? Claire Geist: I started my Weardrobe account and I immediately became hooked on posting my outfits to such a supportive community! I got featured on the front page a few times, and even won a contest on how to wear blazers! I was eventually contacted by the website to discuss plans for the conference, and I couldn&amp;#039;t say no! 17: How did you get into fashion? CG: It&amp;#039;s all my mom&amp;#039;s fault, really. She had me watching clips from fashion week when I was very little, and she taught me all sorts of things about fashion history and design. However, I didn&amp;#039;t fully understand or appreciate fashion until I was around 13 or so when I completely fell in love with a glimpse of the Marc by Marc Jacobs&amp;#039; RTW line from 2004 in a magazine. It really made me think about proportions and layering in ways I hadn&amp;#039;t really thought of. 17: Describe your personal style. CG: I like to think of my style as &amp;quot;quirky-yet-clean.&amp;quot; Right now, I&amp;#039;m very much into mixing very high-end, structured pieces with raw, edgy accessories and bizarre textures. I absolutely adore thrift shopping and finding vintage pieces that I rarely find in retail. 17: Where do you find things to put in your blog? What&amp;#039;s your main inspiration?  CG: I&amp;#039;m a real Streetpeeper.com addict, I love seeing what everyday, inspirational people wear! I&amp;#039;m always checking out what the ladies in SoHo are donning, and I try to interpret my findings into my own work on my blog! I also work in some spotlights on recent purchases, my own photography from my Flickr account, and findings through other blogs. It can be an exhausting process! 17: Do you have advice for girls who want to get into blogging? CG: The blogging community is wonderful, and absolutely saturated in inspiration. Browse around and find bloggers that have similar taste in style as you, this will help you draw inspiratio   n and really establish what you want your blog to look like. Something to keep in mind though, is that popularity is great, but if your blog isn&amp;#039;t viewed by thousands of people each day, it doesn&amp;#039;t necessarily mean your sense of style is bad, just maybe you haven&amp;#039;t put yourself out there enough! Try commenting on others&amp;#039; posts, and participating in other awesome, fun style accounts on sites like Weardrobe.com or Chictopia.com! 17: What is your favorite  fashion blog? CG: I&amp;#039;m a religious reader of New York magazine&amp;#039;s blog, The Cut. Their posts cover everything in the fashion industry from fashion week to quirky clothing-related news bits. You can&amp;#039;t go wrong with fashion and humor! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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