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  • Hey, guys, I'm Diana, an art director at Bustle, and this is Thrift The Legend.

  • I'm here at Buffalo Exchange.

  • Let's see who we have this week.

  • Billie Eilish.

  • Billie Eilish; we should call her Billie the maximalist.

  • Billie takes oversized to a whole new level.

  • Oversized on oversized.

  • Billie is so open about wanting people to focus on her music instead of her body, but that doesn't mean that she doesn't have fun with what she wears.

  • Now that I see all these really crazy prints, I think it's something that she would do.

  • I'm excited to try.

  • With, like, a black lipstick?

  • Billie is so much fun to think about and talk about as an art director because everything she wears is, for the most part, art.

  • She takes things that seem really mundane and makes them high fashion.

  • She takes high fashion and makes it street.

  • It's Billie.

  • When Billie Eilish first came on the scene wearing oversized basketball shorts with shirts that were clearly so big on her, people were really confused.

  • Now, designers are hungry to add these kinds of things to their collection.

  • She's really changing the way that we think about fashion as an art form.

  • Billie also does the monochrome really well, so I'm gonna let my eyes glaze over the racks, and just find really crazy colors.

  • Oh, my gosh. Wow!

  • I think she wears colors that are considered feminine really well, and she makes them, like, edgy, so a light pink or a light green, it's no longer masculine or feminine.

  • It's just cool.

  • I mean, cute or crazy?

  • This is weird, but I like it a lot.

  • I want this.

  • Can I buy this?

  • There are so many things about Billie's style that you can access.

  • Having a personal style, moving through different color waves, different patterns, not needing to completely reinvent yourself...

  • I just love this! It just makes me smile.

  • I love it with the track pants, and it's got a hood.

  • Mmm! Yeah, I love this so much, and I think you can, like, dress it up or down.

  • I'm obviously wearing a red lip.

  • Rings, pile a bunch of them on there.

  • You could dress it up or you could be super casual about it; put a baseball hat on.

  • Having a personal style, moving through different color waves, different patterns... Billie completely broke the mold of what a typical pop star looks like.

  • Changing gender norms and size norms... she almost has a uniform at this point, but we're still so excited to see what she does next.

  • Designers are taking note that this is what people are into.

  • What immediately comes to mind is how Chanel took the Billie aesthetic and made a custom suit for her for the Oscars.

  • Billie's style is all about just being true to yourself and being comfortable in your own skin, so when I put this on, it just made me so happy; I think that's what it's all about.

  • If you're trying to be inspired by Billie, just go oversized.

  • Let me know who you want me to emulate next.

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Hey, guys, I'm Diana, an art director at Bustle, and this is Thrift The Legend.

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