* In which we talk to people on the street about their clothes. And yes, I am in Venice.

Gina Young: What are you doing tonight?
Johanna Breiding: Eating a delicious pizza and drinking stolen wine.
GY: Nice. Who would you say is your fashion icon?
JB: Oliver Twist.
GY: Which eras inspire your style and why?
JB: The 1920s. I think the whole androgyny thing… Women wearing men’s clothing. Also the Baroque era… with the fancy collars and sleeves and ruffles. And then a little bit of skater boy/snowboarder creeps in. I like a mixture between comfort and old-fashioned style. The clothes I wear, I could go to bed in. I only wear baggy pants, I don’t understand carrot pants.
GY: Carrot pants?
JB: Pants that are tight. That make your legs look like carrots.
GY: Ahh… I know those as skinny jeans. Or cigarette pants.
JB: It's the German term. I'm from Switzerland but I've lived in Seattle for a little over a year. I also don’t like high water pants. I like them to be as long as possible, so most of my pants end up under my shoes.
GY: Where did you get that hat?
JB: At a flea market in Berlin.
GY: And what about the belt?
JB: I made the belt. Out of skateboards.

GY: Come again?
JB: Actually out of one skateboard that my brother rode, and broke. I cut the skateboard into domino-sized pieces and drilled three holes into each piece. I used a thin rope to connect all of them with knots.
GY: So, would you say that you completely buck conventional fashion?
JB: Uh... my shoes are Diesel.