In this episode of Style DNA I go on a style journey with the Author, Diversity Advocate, Speaker and Influencer, the simply positively infectious and inspirational, Candice Brathwaite.

Candice is a prominent British author. Her latest book, Manifest(o) was released in September 2024, becoming an instant Sunday Times Best-seller…with good reason. Sharing her revolutionary and inclusive approach to manifesting, The Law of Attraction…call it what you will, there's no denying that using your mind to bring your dreams into reality is having a moment. Believing that you deserve abundance is the route to inviting it into your life. But what if your life experiences so far have demonstrated the exact opposite? What does Manifesting look like if you're not white, thin, traditionally pretty, or able-bodied?  In Manifest(o) Candice, with her customary no bullsh*t candour,  shows you that manifesting can be for everyone - not just those to whom the universe has already been kind…

The conversation I had with Candice had me laughing and nearly crying …she has a lot to say and she says it well…she is massively entertaining often when the joke is on her. Whether recounting stories of slipping out of her school “uniform”,  to her clothes now being her armour. We talk about the sheer luck of finding her perfect wedding dress …or did she manifest it?  …her Oscar de la Renta dress had first been priced at a whopping £22,000, yes you read that right… reduced to the £700 she actually paid for it. 

In terms of discovering her personal Style DNA she tells me how she had a lightbulb moment in her early 30s and decided to dress as her and not to cosplay anymore…but not before a time of being in the public eye and feeling the pressure to “be dressing like everyone else” …but the everyone else at the time were “white, middle class, yummy mummies”  wearing Boden, M&S and hiking boots…she confirms that all photographic evidence of this chapter has since been deleted!

We also talk about the inspiration for her shaved head and red lips…and much much more.

Thank you @candicebrathwaite for sharing your style and life stories so beautifully... you are truly inspirational xx

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