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" I didn't launch the website with any goals in mind, to be honest. I didn't know that it would have been anything other than a digital portfolio once I graduated college. "

Leandra Medine

Goals

Mind

College

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" I think Man Repeller is more about self-confidence than it is about a woman's relationship with a man. "

Leandra Medine

Man

Woman

" By the time I graduated college, I was sick of what was out there. I wanted to bring something new to the Internet. "

" Don't get me wrong - I'm not against makeup. If I could manage looking like 'me' in a way that also read as tastefully, invisibly airbrushed, I'd sign up for that faster than you could choose a filter to do it for me. "

" I am comfortable with how I look. "

Leandra Medine

I Am

How

" You have to keep a feeling of goodness in your exteriors. "

" As long as you are promoting something that you really believe in - yes, it's incredible to see that designer earn the esteem they deserve - but there's something to be said about the fact that if you're convicted about an opinion, and you really believe something's great, you're not going to credit yourself for their success. "

" I'm probably most inspired by good street style that features items I already own; it's always great to see how another person wears something you have, which sort of reinvents it for you. "

" Running a business is incredibly hard, especially as a creative person, because you're extricated from the creative very quickly, and that is really hard. Obviously, I have experienced that first hand. "

" I didn't actually even really know my grandmother; I must have been 3 or 4 when she died. "

" Without getting too spiritual, God has done so much for me; the least I can do is drink Kiddush wine on a Friday night. "

" There's charm, in some capacity, to every trend. I just think practicality should die. Crocs - blech. "

" I knew I wanted to be a fashion writer but didn't want to contribute to the over-saturated market unless I could contribute in a meaningful way. "

" Fashion Week is a great opportunity to make unimportant people feel like they own the world. "

" It seems inevitable, if unfair, that when a woman is vying for a prominent position in office, her outfit choices will be analyzed to a degree considerably higher than those of her male counterpart by simple existence of gender stereotypes. "

" I'm not comfortable leaving the apartment if the bed isn't made or a chair isn't tucked into the table. "

" I got a C in art when I was in 11th grade. That it is even possible to come out of a high school art class with a C is wondrous, especially considering the creative license we were encouraged to use to, for lack of a better axiom, color outside the lines. "

" When push comes to shove, no one really cares what you're wearing except you. "

" I have always, always loved words. "

" My eyes will never be blue; my bone structure will never allow for you to mistake me for a Scandinavian model. "

" When I'm wearing red lipstick, I'll never do anything with my eyes. And it's so easy - you just put on red lipstick, and your whole face just seems done. "

" I'm Jewish, so I don't really do Christmas gifts, and Hanukkah is not as big a deal as gifts are concerned, so I never actually give gifts. "

" Nighttime dressing is not very different from daytime dressing for me. I feel like night clothes don't get a chance to live the way day clothes do, so I prefer to think of night clothes as day clothes. "

Leandra Medine

Day

Think

" Nothing feels better than constructing a beautiful sentence. "

" Man Repeller is intended to chronicle all the fashion trends that women love and men hate. I started it because I am woman with a deep appreciation for harem pants. And sometimes blaming clothing on a sad love life is easier than blaming oneself! "

" I can't imagine catering to an audience that doesn't also interest me. "

Leandra Medine

Also

Imagine

" What good is a wall without framed art? It is like the equivalent of the accessories that you choose to wear to decorate a black dress - precisely the stuff that makes the wall/dress you. "

" Nothing's worse than oily skin. "

" Being a man repeller becomes a process of elimination. If a guy is only really into your outfit and won't date you because of what you're wearing, they are too driven by the female exterior and don't care about your intellect. "

" My goal is never to push anyone to do anything other than think. "

" I always wanted to make sure that I was honest to myself and that people wanted to hear an opinion that was authentic... I wanted Man Repeller to be a voice for women who felt like they didn't have a voice or for women who didn't know how to express their voice. "