Blogger Of The Week: Elegance Lies

Hello.

It's time for our 'Blogger Of The Week' interview.

In case you missed last week...

 (make sure you check it out here)

Each week we will be interviewing our favourite Edinburgh based bloggers. Getting to hear all about their passion.

This week we interviewed the ever so stylish Agita from http://www.elegancelies.com/

Agita is a gorgeous Latvian fashion blogger who is studying Fashion Technology. 

Her pictures, as you can see above, are just flawless!

What inspired you to start blogging?

I had always been interested to write, but wanted to try something different than my notebook, so elegance lies started of as me just putting down my ramblings about a very typical teenagers life. It didn't really have any point at the start, because I started when I was 16, but later on it turned into a fashion blog as that was the course that my life took.

Where do you get the inspiration for your posts?

It is going to sound cheesy, but mostly get inspired from life. If it is relevant, I blog about it. I could never be that blogger who puts on a special outfit, just for those 30 minutes of shooting, it needs to be for an event, or just for university, it has to be useful, otherwise I would feel like a cheat. Also, I think it is very easy to tell if that blog post came to life by itself or was forced just because you NEED a new blog post. And, of course, I like to take a peek in other people's blogs, it is always interesting to see what kind of ideas others have come up with.

What post are you most proud of?

It's hard to tell, there have been so many blog posts on elegance lies during 5 yearss, but one of them the most definitely has to be my rant of a blog post "Why I don't feel like blogging anymore?". It was on that point after a few work experiences in fashion sector in Latvia before I went to university here, and I was so disappointed by what I had experienced. The chaos and "fakeness" of fashion back home had me so depressed I didn't want to do anything fashion related any more, so I kind of exploded through a blog post and many people hated me for blogging something so true and harsh(had a few hate comments) and a lot of people liked it for the fact that someone finally said what most of the people were thinking. So, I have to be the most proud about that one, because it definitely gave me some "ballsyness" points

What's the biggest tip you would give to someone starting out?

Enjoy it. Once you start out you can literally blog whatever comes to your mind, explore every possible direction, whether that is writing diy blog posts or street style, or who wore it better blog posts. Once you develop a certain amount of followers you kind of know the thing they like to read and can kind of burn yourself with very strong minded blog posts, as someone will almost always not like your opinion. I wish I could go back to that starting point where my teenage sarcasm had no filter, it was way easier to blog back then.

What do you do when you are not working on your blog?

My blog is actually one of the things I try to squeeze in between all the other things I do. As I am a fashion technology student and work on my off days for a tailor in Edinburgh, I don't really have a single day of the week off, but currently my life goes around new design and sewing projects, also sketching, either on illustrator or actual paper, and somewhere between that I try to squeeze in some photography. It is a huge creative bubble I live in outside my blog and by the time I will get to my Christmas holidays, I can bet I will be a creative carrot, drained of any ideas.

Can you recommend any blogs to check out?

I am not very good in sourcing new bloggers as I am just a bit lazy for that, but I really like http://www.amyvalentine.co.uk/ as her outfit blog posts are always interestingly put together.

What do you love most about Edinburgh?

I am a very visual person and I have been passionate about photography every since i first got my hands on a camera when I was 12, and Edinburgh is literally the most photogenic city I have ever been to. It doesn't matter if it rains, snows or is extremely sunny, Edinburgh always mesmerises me, and even with my 3rd year being here, I still always look outside the window when I am in the public transport or car, rather than read a book, because it is so beautiful.

Make sure you check out Agita's fabulous blog

http://www.elegancelies.com/

and stay tuned for out next blogger of the week interview!

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