My Sartorial Inspirations: IWTBH! and GOCA

Alexandra Richmond
5 min readDec 19, 2020

One of the very few legitimate thrills of 2020 for me was getting to hop on a couple of chill yet exciting Zoom meetings led by Andrea Linett and Kim France, of I Want to Be Her! And Girls of a Certain Age, respectively. I’ve been reading the work of these editors and arbiters of taste since the Sassy era, and still click to open their emails as fast as I can when they land in my inbox. So when the pandemic hit in March and Andrea put out a call for guest posts, I typed as fast as I can. The thing is, Andrea nets guest posts from people like, say, Bobbi Brown and her fabulous neighbor/pal/amazing chef Carin. So I imagine that, after I sent Andrea my guest post, she used it as bait to get the posts I linked to above. She’s smart! Here’s my post from last year. I will likely update this for 2021, if the electric grid holds (crossing my fingers!).

Vintage (from April 2020) Guest Post for IWTBH!

I Want To Be Her! Guest post for Andrea Linett

Monday April 13 2020

Alex Richmond’s Rona (can we agree to call it rona?) Survival Guide from HTT (head to toe)

Andrea’s writing prompt:

<<I thought I would ask you what your beauty, health, fashion or home lifesaver is right now. Specific products would be great. Thanks!>>

Looking pulled together with a little edge and being comfortable is all I really ever want, sartorially speaking. In the most basic terms, I aim to look as decent as possible while…

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Alexandra Richmond
Alexandra Richmond

Written by Alexandra Richmond

Writer, photographer, student in Austin, Texas. Former contributor to many publications a long time ago