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Martine Severin, 31, blogger
T
his styLe avatar is easy on the
eyes and equally easy to talk to, with
a rapier wit that shows up often on
her blog. raised in Port-au-Prince, haiti,
and Cambridge, she got her undergraduate
degree from Wellesley College and is now
doing graduate work in education policy
at harvard. on her blog, she writes about
street fashion, aiming to inspire fashion
drones and zombies to pay a bit more
attention to themselves. “i’m a lone voice
crying out for color and proportion in a
sea of droopy, gray gabardine, uggs and
moldy, old sweaters,” she says. While she
does follow the latest trends, she considers
fashions on the runway less important than
how regular people adapt those fashions to
their own personal style. her other artistic
interests include photography. in addition
to blogging, she enjoys sewing (quilts and
clothing), wine, food and working off the
latter two at the gym, saying, “give me
deadlifts, sumo squats and supersets, and
i’m a happy woman.” hence, a figure worthy
of venus. she also enjoys skiing, running,
swimming and traveling, and tries to plan
one domestic and one international jaunt
per year—a tactic that’s taken her to south
africa, spain, denmark, haiti, maine and
baltimore. her only pet, she jokes, is her
sister, and her charitable endeavors include
promoting literacy by reading to kids at the
amigos school in Cambridge. a hot tamale
with style to spare, she’s as fierce as they
come and funny, to boot.

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