GARÇONNE X ACADEMIA

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Style Notes from keesh is a space for observing fashion the same way I observe life—slowly, intuitively, passionately, and without pressure to explain everything. It’s less about current fashion trends and more about the story we crave to express through our clothes in our day-to-day. What feels grounding opposed to pressured.

Each entry begins with a reference (or two) and ends with a reflection, with love, of course.

Volume 2 explores Garçonne × Academia:

Garçonne

Garçonne style has always carried an ease that feels deliberate. It borrows from menswear, favors clean lines, and resists excess. There’s confidence in its restraint—an understanding that presence doesn’t require ornament. It’s direct, unfussy, and quietly self-assured.

Academia

Academia brings a different kind of intention. Rooted in tradition, scholarship, and ritual, it leans into structure and repetition. Layered knits, pressed trousers, sensible shoes. It’s thoughtful, inward-reflecting, and built around discipline rather than display.

When these two meet, the result feels intellectual without being stiff.

 

Masculine silhouettes soften. Scholarly layers relax. The look becomes less about uniform and more about agency—choosing what to keep, what to edit, and what to reinterpret.

Styling this pairing felt like dressing for focus without formality, serious without severity. It reminded me that knowledge and confidence don’t have to announce themselves. Sometimes they sit quietly, fully aware of their presence.

That’s the intention behind Style Notes—to treat getting dressed as another form of art. To notice what feels aligned, what feels borrowed, and what feels like home.