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This week, my photographer quit. The photographer is me. I was busy.
So I hired an AI stand-in. She works for free, never needs a lunch reservation, and has never once turned lunch into a three-hour event. I don’t know how she lives.
Ground rules, because this only works if I’m straight with you: I’ll tell you exactly what I actually wore and what the robot styled. Two of these outfits went out into the real world on my actual body. Two are combinations the AI put together from my closet and my ShopMy picks. The jeans are real. The posture is not.
Shop the Post: Gold jeans | Leopard slingbacks | The tweed look | Indigo studded jeans | White Stelle shirt | Pearl jeans
1. The One I Actually Photographed (Worn, Real)
Real photo, real me, actual night out. No robots were involved in this one.
Gold-on-gold, head to toe. I wore this exact look out this month: Noli’s coated flare jeans in gold metallic, a gold blouse tied at the waist, leopard slingbacks. My exact slingbacks aren’t available to link anymore, so I found the closest pair. Note the cocktail in hand. The stand-in never holds a cocktail. Another reason not to trust her.
Noli Aria Coated Flare Jean, Gold Metallic SHOP IT
Similar leopard slingbacks SHOP IT
2. The Horse Show Look (Worn, Then Re-Created)
AI try-on of an outfit I really wore. The jacket is the star; the horse is off-camera.
This exact outfit went to the horse show at Trelawny with me: the boucle tweed jacket with the little pops of pink, yellow and blue, white coated jeans, black blouse, all gifted by Noli. The jacket is still one of the pieces I’m genuinely passionate about. What you see above is the AI re-creation. She got the jacket right, but she has never smelled a horse.
Gabrielle Tweed Double Breasted Blazer, Ecru Multi SHOP IT
Aria Coated Flare Jean, Vanilla SHOP IT
Colette Blouse, Black SHOP IT
3. The Dark Denim Uniform (Her Styling, My Picks)
AI try-on. Jeans are mine, shirt is from my picks, styling credit is hers.
Full honesty: the jeans are mine, my dark denim pair, gold stud clovers and all. The sheer white Stelle shirt is from my ShopMy picks, and this exact combination is the robot’s styling. It’s good. If you’ve read this blog for more than a week, you know I’m a separates girl, and this is why. It goes to lunch, it goes to dinner, it goes to the thing I said I wasn’t going to and then went to.
Noli Kaia Studded High Rise Jean, Indigo SHOP IT
Noli Stelle Button Up, White SHOP IT
4. The Remix (Entirely Her Idea)
AI try-on, AI styling. I have to respect it.
And one the stand-in styled all by herself: my tweed jacket over my white Kaia Pearl jeans with the pearl flowers. This is the whole point of separates. You buy four pieces and somehow own eleven outfits. She’s invited to brunch.
Noli Kaia Pearl High Rise Jean, White SHOP IT
Gabrielle Tweed Blazer (in the Trelawny collection) SHOP IT
Shop the Post
Noli Aria Coated Flare Jean, Gold Metallic
The Noli Shop at Trelawny (blazer, jeans, blouse)
Noli Kaia Studded High Rise Jean, Indigo
Noli Kaia Pearl High Rise Jean, White
Final note from the human: the stand-in is fine for photos, but she’ll never know where the good tables are. Some things still require showing up in person.
