As the Parisian sky’s getting cloudier with each passing day, the new issue of Dansk comes to provide us with some gloomy thoughts for the upcoming autumn.

It seems like this last year has been a real eye-opener for Dansk’s editor-in-chief, Uffe Buchard (Mr Boss). After denouncing the over-consumption culture in the November issue, he’s now criticizing the constant search of the new, the young and the experimental in today’s fashion industry. “The lifestyle we currently aspire towards is completely different than the one we sought after two years ago…. My editorial team and I are suddenly interested in an ascetic sort of life, where everything isn’t about more, more, more but rather about the undiluted essences of life… We forsake bullshit, extreme youth worshipping and uncritical celebration of newness for a life governed by modesty in all its shapes and forms”. Amen.

And so, the theme of  Dansk’s latest issue is modesty, a quality so rare nowadays it can even become trendy (hell, you give a teenager a camera and the only thing they find interesting enough to photograph is their own reflection in the bathroom mirror… I’d say modesty is more than welcome in our world).

Translated into getting dressed every morning, modesty would mean stability, consistency, honesty -  not losing our heads over the it bags/prints/cuts in the magazines and embracing a real personal style. A look  in which you feel like yourself only better, bla bla bla bla… Of course, these are the principles of every good wardrobe. The only problem is they’re not so easy to follow… 

If you really want to find your own voice, your own personal and unique style, there is a simple experiment which will help you clear your head from all those seasonal dictations. Just try not to go shopping for one month. Is November good for you? No? February then?