What is more influential on your style and beauty, magazines and traditional media or influencers?

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Magazines for me.

People I see on the street. Family and friends

Influencers, and MN. Also get inspiration from TV characters.

Neither. I sometimes look at the inspiration pages on shop websites, but mostly just notice what people are wearing when I'm out and about.

Haven't read magazines in years.

Social media

Out of those, magazines (digital format). I've got no interest in high street fashion and detest 'influencers'.

Here and influencers, I'm trying to be more ethical though and mainly follow slow fashion influencers.

Mostly watching people and what they wear.
Classic movies and occasionally current ones, same with TV.
This board.
Wandering around real shops like in days of yore.
I still like the idea of a magazine, although I'm nearly always disappointed.
I've recently got into Collagerie and the Times Style pages on Wednesdays.
I don't follow any influencers - I can't take anyone who goes by that name seriously.

I haven’t looked at a magazine for years and years.

I have brands I like and will look at their websites, or promotional emails.

What magazines do you buy? I used to like InStyle but that hasn’t been around for years.

Probably both these days but more so printed magazines which I still buy and read. Grazia and Vogue mainly.

Pinterest. I have so many style ( and what not to wear) boards, that the algorithm knows exactly what to show me.

Vogue - more historically over a lifetime than currently.
The FT - mainly HTSI. It’s brought me so much clothing and design news over the past few decades.
The Vogue Runway app.
Individual designer websites. Countless …
Multi-brand websites like Net-a-Porter. (Still mourning Matches …)
The continuous drip drip of images on the internet. I definitely don’t seek out influencers - and don’t follow any either, but can’t avoid seeing what people on the internet are wearing. I’m more interested in new sources than in how others are dressed.

It’s so strange to notice how actual shops have dropped out of the list. In the 20th century Harvey Nichols practically brought me up. Preceded by Chelsea Girl, haunting Bond St and Covent Garden with thruppence in my pocket, and vintage and charity shops as an undergraduate. Succeeded by grander and more specialist shops, bankrupting myself as a young professional.

Over the last decade and a half MN has been an education! I had no idea so many women despise ‘fashion’, de-prioritise spending money on themselves and believe that beautiful clothes are only for 5’11, size 6, 24 year olds. That’s been depressing.

Now I’m influenced by my hopes for a glamorous old age - more luxury, but also more walking boots.

Generally just people in the streets. I'm never as inspired as when I see people moving and living in their clothes. Also, if it's in the streets, it's a clue that it might be compatible with my lifestyle.

Once I have a silhouette in mind, I generally go on Pinterest.

I agree with @Waterlilysunset and @FastFood, I genuinely find people I pass on the street much more inspiring than magazines or social media.

I’m ashamed to say I rarely notice what other people are wearing, unless it’s exceptional.

Yesterday everyone was in some sort of anorak; joggers in running gear. And whether in a conference hall or tube carriage everyone will be in faded black jeans / trousers. 🤷‍♀️

Pinterest. I can't stand influencers!

For me, sometimes it's outfits I see in advertisements for various clothing retailers or the odd instagram post.
However, mostly it's people who catch my eye when I'm out & about. In my mind, I have an idea of how I want to look & the style of clothes I want to wear but don't necessarily know how to wear them so I like real life inspiration.

I actively avoid ‘influencers’, don’t follow any, although my algorithm thinks I like them.

I seem to be bombarded with rather portly women that call themselves ‘mid-sized’, trying on really hideous clothes from Tesco and M&S. I think because I watch their reels thinking ‘er,no’, I get more and more of them.

People around me - at work or social or arts events; the Times fashion columns, characters in film and television (but not generally real life famous people with the exception of Stevie Nicks when I was a teenager and now Tilda Swinton and Lesley Manville)

Jane Forbes - the owner of Frontiers boutique in Edinburgh who for over 20 years has sold interesting brands in her shop.

Lulu Benson and Janey Dalrymple who owned Arkangel from 2002 to 2012 and sold interesting brands.

The owners of Envoy of Belfast and Dicks of Edinburgh.

Some posters on here.

I agree with Blossomx3- people on the street or the underground aren't generally that interesting- it's so jeans, trainers and puffer jackets.

Probably influencers, Ive found some of my favourite brands through them.

Although I dont think Im all that 'influenced' TBH! I have quite eclectic tastes and dont follow fashion all that much.
I will happily watch influencers who have no relevance to me at all (plus size, teenagers, the greige army, etc). I think I just like seeing people excited about shopping and trying on clothes!!LOL😆