A pair of high heels can add at most several inches but the pointed monk-hood on this jacket adds a full feet. That’s quite a boost for me who’s only 5-feet.

The silhouette is so unmistakable. I feel like I’m the modern sporty grim reaper when I wear it.

But the piece is not all morbid and hipster. It’s also incredibly romantic and feminine. I love how the enormous hood creates a frame for my face, casting a shadow.

I posed in the hoodie with a headband of velvet roses as a contrast. That’s my style philosophy: antithesis. There has to be a contradiction that creates a dynamic of tension.

When I’m wearing a posh label, I like to offset that with something dirt cheap. Or if I am wearing a unique vintage, I like to juxtapose that with something mass produced that almost everyone owns, like a basic white T-shirt or a pair black leggings.

The intrigue is in the unexpected. Layering RO with more black or goth stuff is overdoing it.

Bloody red roses. When you think about it, rose is symbolic of death, too. Its thorns always remind us that pain is a natural part of beauty.