Sarah Lindig is a pretty, well-dressed intern (aka junior team member) here at StyleCaster. We recently brought her to fashion mecca Kirna Zabete to introduce her to Leandra Medine, a girl who might be considered just your far above average styling college chick, except that she lives by the ethos of the hilarious, engaging and totally spot-on blog of her making, The Man Repeller.
Leandra’s mission: to take Sarah from a “Man Getter” to a “Man Repeller.” Click through to see how she did it with some mid-makeover changes herself in her own words.
All Photos: Joseph D’Arco
All Slide Show Text: Leanda Medine
LOL the ultimate white girl problem? LOL okay i’ll remember that
you girls look smashing and the store is amazing, but now i am talking about the collections. they have a #### of a collection and the possibilities are endless. it is like the best of the best. BUT i will never ever go there again because a girl who works there was not that friendly. we were talking pictures of my shopping because we want to remember it. because i was a very small nobody blogger, no pictures were aloud. at that moment you realize that you are a nobody, maybe a somebody as a customer!!!
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not only does the man repeller blog absolutely suck, but this article really doesn’t make much sense.. at all INCLUDING the title. no ones going to understand it..
Especially in the final look, where she checks off all the trends in the look…. they’re okay trends and everything but they should never meet at once, thats called a train wreck.. if anyone from parsons was even on stylecaster you probably lost them because Medine is a horrible representation of the school and everyone I talk to feels the same.
Fashions not supposed to be about the “white girl” problem picking out names, its supposed to be what those names symbolize… she needs to stop throwing them around, just because you can afford them doesn’t mean you deserve to wear them.
Elyssa,
Bitter much?
And, I don’t the Leandra goes to Parsons. Also, pretty sure she studies journalism. Oh– and even if your Parsons friends dislike her, she seems to be doing quite well without their support.
Lesson in this: If you are going to slam some one, best suggestion— get all your facts straight first.
Leandra and Sarah— looks like you two had a blast. And I love the booties!!!
Elyssa you actually took time of to write that stupid comment like seriously? loved it by the way.
well given that you’re not even capable of finding out what school she’s at it’s no big surprise you don’t get the title elyssa, don’t you think?
and in that case i really hope you don’t go to parsons either, because then we’d actually have a horrible representation of that school.
Dear Elyssa,
I do believe that you don’t even understand the general idea of the project. The fact that she put all those trends together in this so called “train wreck” was the point! She’s not trying to make some huge fashion statement and be the next fashion icon (although, I think Leandra is doing an amazing job at just that), but she’s turning this girl into a “man repeller” – someone who’s using fashion to NOT attract guys – which I think more girls should do.
And about the whole “white girl problems” comment. Do you even read her bog? Its SO full of hilarious humor. If you knew this – you’d know she’s not being serious about that at all.
Seriously. Like someone said before me – get your facts straight.
I, do in-fact go to parsons and i do look at her blog and i understand her point of view is that men are un-attracted to really in style things are intimidating to men, but that means that this look is supposed to be really good. and if she is a journalism major at lang, she should stick to that.
hmmmm.
read your blog without fail.
you lost me on the white girl comment.
what was that?
irony? satire? a random social commentary?
unappreciated?
yes.
do better.
Elyssa, you’re such a hater!! Haha. I can picture you reading Medine’s blog daily, getting all riled up that a classmate (who in actuality doesn’t even go to your school) is already doing so much better than you- and she hasn’t even graduated yet! An NYU grad myself, you actually took my impression of Parsons students down a notch. As for the whole “white girl problem,” I can see how that might be offensive to women of other ethnic backgrounds (insinuating that they are not as fortunate as white women), but sadly, i believe that to be true. I myself am a woman of color and I did not come from money like Medine (sorry, Leandra, an assumption I’m making based on the view from your grandmother’s terrace… that and all the beautiful clothes you own), but I’m not going to begrudge someone born into wealth the accolades that they deserve for creating an extremely successful blog. I admit, there are times when I too become jealous of Medine’s charmed life, but it only encourages me to work that much harder in hopes that one day I can obtain the same for myself. One day, I too will have white girl problems HAHA. We can agree on one thing though: Medine should definitely stick with journalism- She’s a great writer with killer style. Say hello to a future editor.
LOL!!!, you are soooo funny loves it!!!
Ash, I second your comment about being able to Elyssa getting angry. I was jus thinking the exact same thing.
Elyssa your comment smacks of JEALOUSY and little else.
And while most of the time I am preoccupied with thoughts of sending Leandra a hairbrush ( I mean that with all the love in the world ) her blog is brilliant. Its really sweet of you to think anyone gives a Sh*t what you or your friends think though. Thanks for the laugh.
we are free women and we say and wear what we want the way we want to, some coments are just no worth it so just relax and let it go, you all need to be a little more tolerant because not every person is going to like the same things you do and thats life, but i got to admit thar elyssa chic seems to be taking it a little to personal in a lame and kind of funny way
Fantastic piece and thank you for comtinually entertaining with your blog!
Elyssa, I’m dying to know what exactly do those names symbolize? You seem to be the authority on what fashion is, what designer fashion means, and how we should style pieces together. How did we ever live without your insight? We’re so lucky to have your passive aggressive bitter attacks on a woman you don’t even know to help guide us into what fashion really is. Because you know it all.
That was sarcasm by the way. You obviously can’t extract meaning out of plain text since you took something silly and fun and turned it into a deadly serious article.
I think someone is bitter about someone else’s success. Leandra built up this entire thing from scratch. She coined the term MANREPELLER, for heaven’s sake!
Stop hating…and maybe your time will come too.
Hahaha haters gon hate. (Elyssa)
When was the last time you created something as original as manrepeller.com?
For anyone confused by the “white girl problem” statement, I suggest 1) checking your sense of humor before 2) following @whitegirlproblem on Twitter and 3) laughing your a** off
I can just imagine the sweet satisfaction that journalism major Leandra must be feeling at Elyssa’s grammatically treacherous post. Someone needs to buy the girl a few apostrophes.
Waaa! I love and want that leather hardware chest plate…or chest plates rather…anyway…doesnt matter…must covet!
Oh and dont mind the haters. Big love from a west coast repeller.
leandra is a master of satire. This student with an apparently bourgeois background somehow manages to skewer both the fashion establishment and herself in an endearing way. The result is a laugh out loud commentary on commercialism, fashion, sexual mores.
As a former Parsons student I am embarrassed that elyssa displays such a lack of intellectual rigor. Perhaps we need to return to diagramming sentences before learning how to design a dress…
I love Leandra and her blog. I go to it everyday and always have a good laugh. It’s nice to not be so serious about fashion. I find her take refreshing and entertaining. Love the leather breast plate action, major woah!
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LOVING IT!!! yes… me next! ha ha ha… brownie points for black suede Alaias… oh so pretty, very pretty. ME WANT!!! and hey… Elyssa… Calm down. If you do not like what you see here then do not read the article, find something else to do. Insulting someone online is very tasteless. Hit the little x on the top corner of your screen… or red button and go off and find something else to look at. Don’t be a hater girl. Any who… ManRepeller is awesome… and Medine is HIGH-larious! Plus… she made Sarah Lindig look purty hot! =D
Elyssa, I am also a student at Parsons, and I actually look up to Leandra for everything she has accomplished in such little time while being a student at The New School. And for the record, everyone here absolutely loves what she’s been doing! If anyone is misrepresenting the school in any way, it is you – we should be supportive of what little awesomeness still comes out of it!
the only thing funnier than Leandra’s blog is that lame girl, elyssa. you are the worst.
@Posted May 11 2011 10:29 by Absolutely Mrs. K
Many stores do not allow you to take photos inside… from small boutiques to H&M
Elyssa,
wtf do you mean by “what those names symbolize?” Read a book. You’ll realize how idiotic your comment was in the context of post-modernism.
Anyway, Leandra, I love your blog. Keep doing what you’re doing. It’s awesome.
Leandra you rock. I wish I could do the man-repelling style thing too. Unfortunately I’m too much of a babe.
P.S.-The white girl problem comment? What she meant was, that’s what most privileged girls would consider a problem, whereas women in any other part of the world usually have worse things to worry about. Either that or she is making a reference to that humor twitter account @whitegrlproblem. Duh!
I dont think her man-repelling powers lie in the clothes. It might have something to do with the ugly …
Did this have a point?
On the record, I’m going to Parsons, and I love what Leandra does.
i can’t believe you believe most men really care what you wear. we have opinions, likes, dislikes…sure. but you’re gorgeous and thin. wow. how out of touch can you be?
All I saw was a chick with bad thrift store taste and not a speck of writing talent. All I see now is a slew of ##### girls in here spouting cattiness because one chick didn’t like this #### and said as much. I about hoarked when I read “master of satire.” My God you all sound like a bunch of mindless twats. Get your act together and maybe do something useful. This was just stupid.