How Do You Wear Your Indie Fashion?
Name: Outi Pyy (aka OutsaPop) She is wearing Zipper Collar necklace and a dress made from a crochet tablecloth, both designed by her.
Occupation: trashionista / indie designer
City/State: Espoo, Finland
How would you describe your personal style?
Like a thrift store, it´s a secondhand mix. I love loose 80´s clothes with weird cuts, band t-shirts, worn down and paint stained denim and high heels with sexy pencil skirts. Some of my friends say I look like an art gallerist, some think my style is more close to “nu-rave art teacher”. I think humor is important also in fashion. If the outfit has something that I find funny or odd I´ll wear it.
What’s your favorite piece of clothing?
I love my crochet evening dress (see attached picture). It´s one of the first trashion projects I did a few years ago. I made the dress from an outdated 90´s dress and covered it with a crochet table cloth I colored black. I usually wear it with one of my zipper necklaces to jazz it up a notch. Indie gala elegance by reusing old things. Love it.
What would your dream job be?
I´d love to be a shop manager or buyer for a fashion store that sells only sustainable/eco brands or indie fashion labels.
What 3 things can’t you live without?
My laptop with a wireless internet connection and portable hard drive, my family and trashion inspiration scrap books. Not necessarily in that order. 
Tell us about something you LOVE that you want others to know about?
I love my inspiration books. I buy loads of fashion magazines a year and since I have no space (who does?) to store them all I cut the interesting bits out and organize and paste them into my inspiration scrap books. They are a very good way to organize and store ideas, plus they are portable. I usually have one in my bag all the time. Every trashion project starts from there. I believe in sharing, so I have scanned all the pages to my web photo gallery for anyone to read. Click this link to check out the inspiration gallery.
If you would like to be featured in the ‘How Do You Wear Your Indie’ segment in the blog email me trish(at)smashingdarling(dot)com. It is a great way to shout out what you are up to and something you love. Get involved, it also is painting a very diverse picture of just who is wearing indie and wanting everyone to know!
