Cashion People #1: Jessi Arrington

Cashion People is human beings who either have passion in buying secondhand things or making her/his own fashion stuff

Meet Jessi Arrington!

Short Profile: Jessi Arrington is a founder and owner of WORKSHOP, a designer firm in Brooklyn. Her favorite color is rainbow and her default answer is YES. She’s taught Design Fundamentals at Touro College and given guest lectures at NYU; she's a board member of AIGA/NY. Before co-founding WORKSHOP, she carried out branding for Brooklyn Brewery, Tomato Records and Lion Brand Yarn under the direction of Milton Glaser. She makes a hobby of wearing nothing new (except undies).

Jessi Arrington is a designer based in Brooklyn that also makes website named Lucky So and So. What's unique about her website is, she used to post her daily style into it. And what makes her style so unique? She is wearing nothing new!

some of her looks in Lucky So and So

She get all of her looks by buying in trift store in every place she get in. And like every trift store, she get her fashion items in a very cheap and unique way! 

Her uniqueness makes her get a chance to share her talk in TED, a website contains about the most influencing talks around the world visited by something like three-quarters of a million people daily. This is her five minutes talk that get the standing applause from attendances. (a must seen talk!) 

This talk is about her way of life of wearing nothing new. She loves finding, wearing, and blogging a different, colorful, yet crazy outfit for any single occasion by buying the secondhand items in flea market and trift stores. This way of life teaching her about many things.

"Secondhand shopping allows me to reduce the impact my wardrobe has on the environment and on my wallet. I get to meet all kinds of great people; my dollars usually go to a good cause; I look pretty unique; and it makes shopping like my own personal treasure hunt. I mean, what am I going to find today? Is it going to be my size? Will I like the color? Will it be under $20? If all the answers are yes, I feel as though I've won." - Jessi Arrington

She is a truly Cashion People.

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