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Can someone tell 16 year-old Kat that she got to style people for the Oscars, Emmys, Netflix and Comedy Central specials, the Green Carpet Fashion Awards, and more? Thank you to my beautiful clients for trusting me, and the incredible designers who have let me play dress-up with their creations, many of which are ethical and/or sustainable! Adding @howiebofficial since I can’t tag his animal print gown bc I maxed tags, and @sylvennewyork for their amazing vegan apple leather boots! There are too many to tag. #stylistlife #plussizestylist #redcarpetstylist #redcarpetstyle #ethicalplussize #ethicalstylist #sustainablestyle #redcarpetgreendress

I got to work with so many fun, creative people this year! Here’s to more styling fun in 2023 🍾 I tried to tag everyone but IG maxed my tags! #astylistslife #plussizestylist #2022in60photos #lovemyjob

🌌 Thank you @selkie for making a gown worthy of a goddess like @marylambertsing . You’re angels. This is what the best dreams look like ✨ I came out of styling hiatus (retirement?) so I could give Mary a hug at midnight in a parking lot near the airport.

Dirty hair, clean living, just kidding. Thanks for the pic @jensaunderson .

A lot of people don’t know that a little over a year ago I took on a full-time role with @giveusthefloor . Now I’m the COO oven organization that gives LGBTQ+ youth, a safe space to support each other in a supportive community online. And, as you can imagine, it has not been an easy time. This regime wants orgs like ours gone, but what’s worse — what they really want is for youth like those in our community to fall through the cracks. In many ways, they’re doing all they can to ensure it happens. That’s why orgs like Give Us The Floor are so vitally important. Because we keep the light on in dark times for young folks to still find support in one another. Over 75% of the youth we have served told us they didn’t know — or they were sure — they couldn’t get help anywhere else. May is #mentalhealthawarenessmonth, and we would love to get your support — by donating, by joining our mailing list, by volunteering. If all of that is too much rn, at least share our profile with your friends. Make a reel, a post, a story. All of it counts. All of it helps spread the word. #protecttranskids #supportlgbtqyouth

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Haircut dog food Rochester work @cmudlophoto meow wolf Palm Springs muppets dog dog styling dog Sacramento dog LGBTQ Advocacy Day look dog

Merry Crustmas to all who practice from me and my fraternal twin 👯 Almost every part of this outfit are thrifted or vintage, thanks for playing

This world is full of unspeakable things but it’s also full of beauty and I think right now I am trying to just hold onto whatever glitter I can find. Oldie but a fun one for @byvinnik . Feels very holiday season. Ethically made look, made in LA.

Everything in this outfit was bought thrifted/used except the sweater, which was gifted by @peridot_robes from her own closet a trillion holidays ago. I find most new plus size clothing really, really boring and/or made of garbage. Not all, most. But I’m so tired of the garbage. Support your local and online plus size vintage and used clothing stores. Those sellers are doing the work to keep folks well-dressed. Thanks.

Decided to challenge myself and make a costume this year using used materials, and this is not an ad for @poshmark but I’m tagging them in bc that’s the only way this could have come together. I knew I wanted to make something inspired by the Rosy Maple Moth, and bless the nature lovers of New Mexico — so many people knew exactly what I was! Anyway, I went looking for a gently used pink sequin dress that I could cut into a cape, but then I found this dress in my size that happened to have a train, and I realized I could save myself a heap of time if I just cut the train off and used that as a cape. I also found this yellow knit hat and scarf combo on Poshmark, which could not be more perfect for creating the fuzzy head look of the Rosy Maple. A couple of faux fern leaves, a styrofoam ball, and a yellow blanket completed the look. I loved DIYing it this year. Is it perfect? Please don’t look at my stitches. But it was so fun to get to create something for no other reason than because I wanted to.

I turned 41. @melmags29 came to town and got up at -1000 o clock to look at balloons that didn’t take flight, but still felt like magic. I made a list of 40 things to do before turning 41 last year. Truth be told, things didn’t quite go as planned, and some things got switched out along the way for better ideas, even. But I checked 20/40 on my list, and you know, I think maybe 20 things is the right number, anyway. So here we go. I guess I have another 20 things before 42. We’ll see. It’s never really about doing it all. It’s just been about setting out a trap for myself to make things happen in life, instead of so much “some day” thinking. I spent my 40th birthday mostly crying into a custom cake in an Airbnb I didn’t pay for, with a person who couldn’t make love work. I spent the first day of 41 mostly quietly working and worrying maybe I’d caught a cold. I’d take that over the awkward, overpriced dinner of 40. Money can fix a lot, but not a broken heart. So 41 came and went with no flash, no custom cake, no overpriced dinners — but also no heartbreak, no tragedy. Instead, it came with a lot of beauty, and a lot of love to be found in my new home. Peace feels way more my speed these days.