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CFDA Award-winning designer Maisie Schloss of the brand Maisie Wilen gives us a sneak peek at her eclectic LA wardrobe, complete with early design favorites and dream-worthy vintage finds.
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There's that joke about Gen Z where they wear two pieces of clothes that don't match and a pair of cowboy boots
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and think it's a cute outfit and even though I am not Gen Z, I am so guilty of that
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Hi, I'm Mazie Schloss and I have a brand called Mazie Willen and today I'm here to show you some of my favorite pieces from my wardrobe
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So my personal style is very colorful, very print-driven, very playful. I love anything that can make me smile or almost seems a little goofy
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I'm so drawn to things that aren't too serious. I think this actually comes from my thrifting love
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because when I'm shopping in a big thrift warehouse, the things that are bright are what sticks out
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on a rack of thousands of pieces. But I also just think it's so much fun to play
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with clashing prints and it can add just so much to an outfit, it seems more exciting to me
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Okay, so I'll start with this dress. So this, I feel like it's just such a mazy piece
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On most days you'll find me driving around LA in a big, brightly printed, muumuu-type dress
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If you know my design aesthetic at all, you know I love a big, bold print
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And also I'm truly a vintage girl. I love nothing more than thrifting and going to a big warehouse and sorting through everything
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until I find a treasure like this. I also cut off the hem, which is something I do a lot, although in the past few years
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I've started wearing a few of the full lengths. So next is this Mickey and Minnie two-sided little t-shirt dress
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I just love cartoons in general. I love old cartoons and I just love anything that's really cute on it
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Like a cute character I'm such a sucker for. But I love this too because it's a bit older and tattered
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It has a bit of an edge, almost like a punk edge to it. More so than something you'd get boxed fresh at the park today
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I do love Minnie Mouse. I actually have a Minnie Mouse tattoo on my leg
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and when I got it done I intentionally had the tattoo artist make it a little messed up because
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I love it when they're a bit taken out of their sort of polished image so another another Disney
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thing I promise I'm not like a Disney adult but I do love a cartoon is this insane like men's 70s
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work shirt but if you look up close Mickey Minnie and Donald are the Dutch masters this is just some
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truly incredible print design. As a print designer, I just wonder how this came to be
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Honestly, Disney, if you are interested in doing some very strange licensing like this again
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please call me. So here's another thrift find that I really treasure. It's an LVMH t-shirt
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and on the back has all of their properties listed. It almost looks like they sponsored
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a fun run or something. Honestly, because it's a thrift store find, I don't know the origin story
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of this, but it's just so funny to me. Something about me is I love oddity attractions. Any sort of
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like world's biggest basket or like the celebrity pet cemetery. I love learning about them. I love
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traveling to strange places to see them. And this shirt, which is from the official center of the
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world in Felicity California is a perfect example of one such attraction Its history is too weird and long to explain in this video so I encourage you all to do the research and hopefully visit it But I love this because it reminds me of going there
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And also, out of context, it almost looks like a weird cult t-shirt, which I think is funny and cool
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So this gets a lot of wear in my rotation. This isn't even all of the faux animal print miniskirts I own
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I'm a super fan of the movie Josie and the cats, which came out when I was a kid
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I'm convinced I've seen it more than anyone else on Earth, including the people who worked on it
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Like, I watch it all the time. And it was so formative for my aesthetic
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And these skirts feel very Josie and the cats. And honestly, like, even with a t-shirt, if I'm not in a brightly printed muumuu, I'm probably in an outfit like this
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it's just so easy and so cute for me like this with some flats I can go anywhere so this is a
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jacket I got from a vintage dealer but I love it because of this very dramatic feathered picture
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collar I just think I look like an evil villain in this it's really over the top looking just this
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insane neckline and shoulders so I just think it's such a fun piece this little jacket
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it. So here is a dress from my first collection of Maisie Willen. It just is such a Maisie Willen
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dress in that it's in our signature featherweight jersey, which is so lightweight and comfortable
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and honestly the most flattering fabric. And it also has a print designed by me on it. I'm so
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proud of this dress. It's one of the first pieces that put us on the map and got us some recognition
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and honestly I'm just really proud of the design too. The print is so dynamic, has this flocking which gives it a bit of dimension
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The cut really looks great on everyone and yeah, it's an early piece I'm so proud of
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This is a very recent Maisie Willen piece. It's from our last collection and we call this the perforated gown
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Probably what I've become most known for are my perforated sets. So typically it's this fabric with the turtleneck and leggings
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and they've just blown up. Anybody who tries them on really gets it
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because even like these holes really expand and contract in the right places
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And even for a fabric that looks so skimpy, it really gives you that hold that you want
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from something that's skin tight. So they feel great on and they've also become so popular
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So I started offering the material in new shapes and I think this new silhouette for it
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It's just so beautiful with the open neckline and the cutout. I'm excited to have it released this month in stores
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This dress I bought when I was working in the suburbs of Florence
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I was at their equivalent of like a Dollar Tree. And they were selling a bunch of these dresses for kids
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If anybody knows this correctly, please DM me and give me the answer. But I think these are actually what Italian kids wear to school
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And then also with my sweater, I'm wearing a pair of trousers from my latest collection
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These are actually from our men collection that we launching this season which is going to be in stores in a matter of weeks So that rewarding because I always trying to expand the categories we offer at Maisie
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Bullen. These represent our expansion and growth over the years, and I love them. They just have a
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cool sort of alien print to them. They're a little spooky, but I can see myself wearing them every day
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So this is another jacket I thrifted. I believe it's vintage Comme des Gersons, although I'm not positive
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But the craftsmanship of it is just so stunning. It has these interwoven silk pieces that kind of have movement to them through how they're constructed
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Whenever I'm thrifting, I love searching for these hyper unusual pieces that feel like one of a kind
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Anything like this sticks out to me. I'll grab it instantly. So here is a necklace by Tom Binns. I actually worked for them as my first
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job out of college. I was doing retail in their New York shop and I just love the details on this
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If you look up close, they're little gold plated screws. Okay, this next necklace is my compass
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I actually wore this nearly every single day for parts of high school and college. It's like a
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seven-year period where I wore this daily. It used to actually be functional, and pre-having an iPhone
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I would actually use this four directions when I would go out. It was handy, but wearing it every
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day, it's fallen apart a bit. I put it on a chain, and then the supporting charms kind of have evolved
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over time. I currently have this little cat, rabbit's foot. This is one of those, you know
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picture viewer type things from an old vacation but I love how chunky it is and it really adds
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so much to any silhouette so as I said earlier I'm a sucker for anything cute and cartoony and
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honestly this doesn't have that special of an origin story I got it recently at the Sherman
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Oaks mall that's part of the tale but I just love this type of playful light-hearted accessory in my
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closet. So this is a vintage Margella purse. It's in their signature style with the clasp sides
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It's this beautiful pony hair. I think it's just so stunningly made but also when I bought it I was
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at this consignment shop and I think there was a guy there working that I think was like the husband
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of the owner. He didn't really know what was going on. There was no price on it. I asked how much it
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was and he was pointing to the tag inside which is a signature marjala tag with the numbers and
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they circle the relevant collection but he kept saying to me like see it has a serial code it
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proves it's really valuable it has its high quality it has a serial code i was just biting
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my tongue going uh-huh and then he quoted me like next to nothing for it because he didn't know what
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he had and i feel like it was such a win so here are my cowboy poots i wear them all the time
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There that joke about Gen Z where they wear two pieces of clothes that don match and a pair of cowboy boots and think it a cute outfit And even though I am not Gen Z I am so guilty of that I think that these are just complete anything I love wearing them
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They perfect any outfit, the little cards. It's incredible how I ended up with these
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because I was at a friend's house once and she had a vintage, I think it was like an early 80s
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Playboy on her coffee table. And I was flipping through it and the centerfold was wearing nothing but these boots
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And I was like, wow, those are incredible. Those are such cool boots
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And then a few days later, I wasn't even particularly searching for them
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But they came up on my For You page on Etsy in my size. It just seemed like such incredible luck
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So I snagged them right away and have been wearing them a ton ever since
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I really love them. Outside of Florence, where I once spent a lot of time for work
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is an incredible Prada outlet. and because it's near their factory and their headquarters I think that they sell some sort of
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like one-offs there and some runway pieces so these boots I got there and I'm not positive of
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this but I think they might be a runway sample but they're just so special to me with these
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you know carved wooden heels all of the leather patchwork I think they're so beautiful and yeah
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But if you ever have a chance to go to the Florence Outlets, these were like 50 bucks
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So unsurprisingly, more cute stuff. I'm just obsessed with these little pink bunny heels
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They're so sweet, but they also feel so vintage. Honestly, I do wear these a lot
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I think they're just perfect for any outfit. I love that they have the little eyes
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I found them randomly from an Instagram shop. That was pretty small called Street Seas
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but I just think they're perfect. So these are one of the four pairs of sneakers with my
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collaboration with Keds. Working with Keds just seemed really fresh to me. I really associate it
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with when I was in high school. I was in high school during like a peak indie sleaze
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like late 2000s era and this is what we were all wearing at the time. Like this is what
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You know, the cool kids had on either their little canvas sneakers going everywhere
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They felt so indie to me. So they felt nostalgic, but at the same time, as a print-based brand
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these are literally a blank canvas for my artwork. So I'm really proud of them. I think they're so cute
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So this is another one of the styles I released with Keds. This also feels so nostalgic for me, almost like an Apple Levine type thing with all the studs
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It's such a practical shoe, ultimately. you know just this slide on sneaker like I wear these to run to my laundry room I wear these to
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go to the grocery store but at the same time they have this absurd element of this being covered in
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spikes almost like a little hedgehog and it's just been so exciting to see such a commercial
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piece available for Maisie Bowen and yeah you can still get them on our website. There you have it
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these are some of my favorite pieces from my wardrobe thanks for watching
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