hai Juan Camilo Rodriguez
Juan Camilo Rodriguez is our fabulous friend and an incredible stylist, who has been on hand for the last month to help style our lovely customers at our NYC pop-up.
Originally from Colombia, but based between Barcelona and Paris, Juan joined us in New York and brought with him a ray of sunshine to the city and our Nolita store.
In his professional life, he has worked with some of fashion top magazines including Document Journal and Vogue; as well as with some of the industry's most prestigious brands.
Keep reading to hear about Juan's favourite spots in the city, the song he has on repeat, and his resolutions for the New Year.
What do you do?
I am a fashion stylist, collector and sometimes costume designer. Everything that involves the creative part of an image through garments, I’m in!
Where do you call home?
Home is wherever my heart is. I could say I have two homes at the moment, Barcelona, where I currently live, and Colombia where I come from and where my family lives. Sometimes Paris is also home, and where I’d like to settle in the future.
Favourite spot in NYC?
James Veloria for shopping. I really loved this place called Wan Wan for its unconventional Thai food, but the city is just amazing, with never-ending changes and friendly people.
What/where/who inspires you?
I think stories and life; my work is usually permeated by my life. Heartaches, love, transformation, joy and pain are usually things that trigger my creative process.
A book or movie that changed your life? I really loved reading Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky some years ago because it’s such a complex book that starts making sense later in life. Demian by Herman Hesse inspired one of my very first fashion designs when I was studying and I still love that novel.
Movies? From Mean Girls to Stranger by the Lake, I can't decide!
What is your favourite thing about your career?
Meeting people and the clothes! Being able to just understand the complexity of garments; the relationship between designs and a story.
What motivates you to work hard?
The never-ending change of life, one moment you’re up, another you’re down.
How would you describe your personal style?
I think that my personal style always reflects a moment in life; clothes are a way to express yourself. I tend to be very eclectic but classic somehow? The essence again is change - I would say my style is a dichotomy.
How would your friends describe you?
I literally just asked them cause I had no idea, and they said: bold but sweet, gay (lol), Prada or nada!, flirty, rogue.
Honestly, I’m just me, I think sometimes I can be too much.
A song that you can't get out of your head?
Omg, Impossible Island by Gaussian Curve will be my all-time favourite song, it’s like a Time Machine for me.
What’s an essential part of your daily routine?
Water and sunblock, perfume, browsing images, a walk.
Breakfast or dinner, and what are you eating?
Dinner - probably sushi, ramen or all things Thai or Japanese.
What's your new year's resolution for 2023?
Leave behind what doesn’t work and renew energies so that everything can grow. Harvest friendships and healthy relationships. Work more every day and more styling. Learn to love better.
What do you do?
I am a fashion stylist, collector and sometimes costume designer. Everything that involves the creative part of an image through garments, I’m in!
Where do you call home?
Home is wherever my heart is. I could say I have two homes at the moment, Barcelona, where I currently live, and Colombia where I come from and where my family lives. Sometimes Paris is also home, and where I’d like to settle in the future.
Favourite spot in NYC?
James Veloria for shopping. I really loved this place called Wan Wan for its unconventional Thai food, but the city is just amazing, with never-ending changes and friendly people.
What/where/who inspires you?
I think stories and life; my work is usually permeated by my life. Heartaches, love, transformation, joy and pain are usually things that trigger my creative process.
A book or movie that changed your life? I really loved reading Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky some years ago because it’s such a complex book that starts making sense later in life. Demian by Herman Hesse inspired one of my very first fashion designs when I was studying and I still love that novel.
Movies? From Mean Girls to Stranger by the Lake, I can't decide!
What is your favourite thing about your career?
Meeting people and the clothes! Being able to just understand the complexity of garments; the relationship between designs and a story.
What motivates you to work hard?
The never-ending change of life, one moment you’re up, another you’re down.
How would you describe your personal style?
I think that my personal style always reflects a moment in life; clothes are a way to express yourself. I tend to be very eclectic but classic somehow? The essence again is change - I would say my style is a dichotomy.
How would your friends describe you?
I literally just asked them cause I had no idea, and they said: bold but sweet, gay (lol), Prada or nada!, flirty, rogue.
Honestly, I’m just me, I think sometimes I can be too much.
A song that you can't get out of your head?
Omg, Impossible Island by Gaussian Curve will be my all-time favourite song, it’s like a Time Machine for me.
What’s an essential part of your daily routine?
Water and sunblock, perfume, browsing images, a walk.
Breakfast or dinner, and what are you eating?
Dinner - probably sushi, ramen or all things Thai or Japanese.
What's your new year's resolution for 2023?
Leave behind what doesn’t work and renew energies so that everything can grow. Harvest friendships and healthy relationships. Work more every day and more styling. Learn to love better.