My grandma was a Belfast city girl in the early 60’s, wearing high heels, mini skirts and the Jackie Kennedy bouffant hairstyle. She later moved to Philadelphia, where her style was heavily influenced by the Hippie culture in America. When she married my german grandpa, and moved to a village in the middle of nowhere in south Germany, she was quickly humbled when she found out that german housewives are more into cooking and cleaning than the latest runway fashion. So to say, my grandma is an Icon - 83 today, she has kept all of her old clothing on the big attic in her house. Fashion is the bond between me and my grandma, growing up I would sneak up to the attic and try on her old gorgeous wedding dress and style it with different wigs and heels. Today, it is our little ritual - whenever I come home for Christmas or Easter, me and my Grandma hide away in the attic and go through all of the clothes, all of the old versions of herself throughout the years, and she tells me the stories these clothes hold and, whatever I want, I can take. She says “well, I can’t take them to my grave, can I”
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Pel que fa a la vostra pregunta sobre quina peça robaria de l’armari de la meva via, definitivament serien els conjunts de dues peces que feia quan era jove. Ella practicament es confeccionava tota la seva roba, i els seus dissenys més famosos eren aquells que combinaven tot el look. Recordo un conjunt de quadres vermells i blaus format per faldilla-pantaló, top de tirants i mocador de coll. Em semblen conjunts que ja no es fan i són senzillament meravellosos.