AMBER

HEY Amber ⁣⁣

𝗪𝗛𝗢

I’m @amberbutchart, I’m a fashion historian, I spend a lot of time thinking about what clothes mean⁣⁣

𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨

As well as can be expected in this year of pestilence filtered through late stage capitalism⁣ ⁣

𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚 / 𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚 / 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚

Ella Fitzgerald and Chick Webb / Emma Dabiri’s Hair Power: Me and My Afro / Rebecca Solnit’s Wanderlust: A History of Walking⁣⁣

𝗦𝗪𝗘𝗔𝗥-𝗕𝗬 𝗕𝗘𝗔𝗨𝗧𝗬 𝗧𝗜𝗣

50+ SPF on my face, every day⁣ ⁣

𝗟𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗦

Swimming in the sea, all year round. It’s an emotional reset⁣⁣

𝗪𝗔𝗦𝗛 𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗘

Wash a couple of times a week, and leave conditioner on for a long time. I also dye my hair so every 6 weeks or so I do that myself at home. I’ve been doing it now for about 25 years but I still find it incredibly tedious⁣⁣

𝗪𝗛𝗬 𝗗𝗜𝗭𝗭𝗜𝗔𝗞

As well as the obviously amazing results, I really love the smell! It’s gorgeously botanical without being floral – I don’t like really sweet smells, so I love that it’s so rich and woody, it smells so luxurious⁣⁣

𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗧 𝗛𝗔𝗜𝗥 𝗠𝗘𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗬  

When I was (much) younger I did some hair modelling for Vidal Sassoon. I loved the colours they used, from bright orange to vibrant red. But they once cut my hair into a mullet, live on stage, while being filmed for Hungarian MTV. There was nothing I could do. So this is also a hair nightmare⁣ ⁣

𝗡𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗛𝗔𝗜𝗥 𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗬

I’m half of a DJ duo, the Broken Hearts, and we have matching hair in red and black. In the past when we were DJing a lot, people would often think we were wearing wigs, and sometimes would try to literally pull our ‘wigs’ off in clubs as we went past⁣⁣

𝗜𝗙 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗚𝗢 𝗔𝗡𝗬𝗪𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗜𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗟𝗗 𝗥𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗡𝗢𝗪

I miss other countries so much. I miss experiencing new sights, flavours, smells, everything – so I have an enormous list. But if I was forced to choose one, I would visit Uzbekistan and tour all of the ikat weaving workshops⁣⁣

𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗥𝗔 𝗜𝗡 𝗟𝗜𝗙𝗘  

I follow @suekreitzman’s mantra: “Don’t wear beige, it might kill you.”⁣