About Campazine

What is Campazine?

Campazine (noun)

/'kampəzin/

1. A magazine that cannot be flipped through (digitally or physically) and touched, contains articles, illustrations and inspirations, frequently specializing in art that includes fashion, music, illustrations, paintings, articles, photos, and et cetera that are inseparable from our daily lives.

2. A website that is down-to-earth. No bombastic words, no photoshopped photos, no perfections.

3. My sharing platform on fashion and art, a media for me to meet fashion and art enthusiasts.

4. A website that emphasizes on originality, creativity and authenticity.

5. A website that has no restrictions, no rules, no standard frameworks, no boundaries.

6. A website that provides a whole new experience of reading something about fashion, art and people, and also values quality over quantity:

First website that talks and draws about fashion in an amateur, honest and down-to-earth manner (because too formal is boring).

First website that provides fashion moodboard for every season.

7. Starting to share my humble research piece on the US market and stock market in 2017, as an addition to my current obsession that I've tried to develop since 2015 . Aiming to serve as a platform to meet real traders to learn from each other.

2. I’ve always loved reading and collecting different magazines, but one day, I suddenly felt they are all not inspiring at all, besides than all the ‘tips’ I’ve gotten from the magazines, I felt everything is done for commercial and advertising purpose, many articles seem to be not honest and true.

I also felt disgraced, I felt humiliated, coupled with all those hurtful experiences I’ve got while growing up, I had even lower self-esteem.

You have no idea how much I hated and insulted myself.

This is because the society taught me that I need to be skinny, a smaller bone frame, a pair of chopstick legs, heart-shaped face, higher nose, fuller lips, bigger double eyelid eyes, which apparently, I have none of them. Walking down the streets, I saw people from different colours, sizes, height, weight. We are expected to dress in a particular way and have a particular body shape although we are all different, which I think it is kind of odd-- they want us to stand out from the crowd and be extraordinary, but at the same time they punish us because we are different.

4. On the other hand, there are so many talents in our motherland where they are forced to go to other countries so they could have a chance to shine. The saddest thing to see is when they have to blend into other country’s culture and neglect their faith in their roots, especially when all these are reflected on their arts and designs.

Besides, the magazines often merely focus on the successful and famous people. What about those less well-known people? Do they have no better stories to tell? Do they not struggle as much as successful people do? Campazine’s aim is to find out true gems that have yet to be known by many and who are never giving up to pursue their paths, I’m interested in knowing the voice of the neglected and minorities from all places I could reach, which I think are very much worth listening as well.

When I say talent, it could be any talent, that can include big things to small things like, say, if you could fart continuously for 15 minutes.

I do not have the intention to let Campazine to be a magazine, or a blog. Its creation and existence is an odd, it is the way Campazine is.

Let me give a definition to Campazine, and you can feel it yourself.

3. Through Campazine, the messages I'd like to spread are:

I want women to dress for themselves, not for anybody else, especially not for men, as what magazines and TV shows have always wanted us to dress like this or like that to attract men. We don’t need men to prove our worth, we only need one man— only one to prove we are worth loving, just as how you love yourself.

I want women to not be afraid of being different. If you don't like it, you don't have to dress in the same way as your pals so you can fit in, and also not be afraid to fight for what you deserve.

I also want people to treat fashion as what fashion really is, that it is not about a lavish lifestyle, not about the logos you put on yourself, not about how many clothes you have in your wardrobe, but merely an art, a mood, a personality, an attitude to express who you are and what you feel.

5. After all, this is a website where fashion, art and people go back to their roots. This is a place where true fashion and art enthusiasts gather.

I want people to love fashion because it allows us to be ourselves but not because we want to be somebody else. I want people to have faith in their roots as well as themselves, we all can do it. I want people to be honest to themselves, to spread positivity instead of negativity to the universe.

Thank you for reading, my friends, my positivity pumpers, my dreamers. Together, we do it.

Speech of Mission Statement

Who Am I?

25, Student from University of Nottingham,

BA (Hons) Finance, Accounting and Management.

Outerwear under the hot sun. No outerwear, no confidence.

Physically introvert and quiet; Mentally extrovert and annoying.

"She is stubborn and weird,"my family says.

Love watching and observing people.

Feminist, but I don't hate men, believing in the power of equality.

1. First of all, welcome to Campazine, your Tomorrowland— a land with dreamers as the citizens, happiness as living standards, giving as wage, taking as love; a land where fashion is a self-enhancing tool, but not a self-destruction tool, a self-expressing tool, but not a self-concealing tool, where being chic, is one who is truly being honest to themselves, wear in style and awesome design, and his or her confidence is not defined by the number of logos.