Naima Fatema

It feels like the only creative thing that you have to do every single day.

Like every single person has to get dressed in the morning.

So why not make it a really fun exercise?

So I think fashion from the start was like the way that I've always been creative because it's something that I could inject into my everyday.

When I was growing up, being creative was like not really a pathway for where I was going to go with my life.

So, you know, I had quite...

like math-heavy subjects at school and science-heavy subjects.

And it was so nice that outside of that, obviously not in my school uniform, but on my Saturdays and Sundays, I got to have fun with that element of creativity where I couldn't do that in my day-to-day.

Yeah.

I put it up and I was like, as a joke, I said –

oh this is probably from a high schooler and a girl was like oh that's literally my school uniform and it was not even one that was far away from my house so I probably could have got onto the tram and another girl was like wearing the same uniform no doubt you had that little gossip girl flair do you remember when they used to wear their uniform but then they would just embellish with like ties and different headscarves and jewelry it's like okay is that a uniform it's

That shaped me as a human, though.

Like that was my dream for my school uniform.

My school did not let us do that, obviously.

But I was like, one day I'm going to be able to dress like Blair Waldorf.

I mean, I'm from Melbourne, so I've obviously been drinking coffee since, you know, out the womb.

I obviously also love a bold outfit.

Yes.

As you can see.

So I think it just makes sense with the rest of my aesthetic.