Irina Lakicevic Fashion Blogger Portable Package Profile

Irina Lakicevic is a fashion blogger who founded Portable Package, a website featuring her latest fashion looks and clothing recommendations. She has been featured in Dore, Coveteure, Style Du Monde, Vogue, PopSugar, and numerous Getty Images.

Irina Lakicevic was born in Pristina, Kosovo when it was part of Yugoslavia.

Irina Lakicevic’s family fled Kosovo for Norway during the war and lost everything. Her family became refugees with an uncertain future. “When your priorities shift, your priorities change totally, and for me, even as a youngster, that meant I became preoccupied with having a secure existence for myself.” She needed to have a secure profession so she chose dentistry instead of fashion school.

Irina Lakicevic feels clothing reflects your inner self. Clothes have the power to transform you and quality matters. She uses clothing to visually express the type of woman she is. So she wears her clothes in multiple ways forming unique pairings.

Portable Package blog is now part of Teach You To Sew, where you can learn about the best products and fashion trends.

Irina is a notorious bargain shopper and finds deals on Ebay, second-hand stores and other reseller sites.

She was very nervous when she first started because she felt like everything had to be perfect right away. Fear of failure has always been a source of anxiety for her. In her first season of shows, she’d chosen to wear some Louboutins that she hadn’t broken in yet, and was trying to get a cab back to the hotel because she had such bad blisters. She was messaging her partner while sitting on this colorful wall when she heard all these photographers. It was the first time they had taken her picture, and it was both bizarre and somehow validating.

She arrived home in Norway the next day, a complete mess, feeling so alone and as if the trip had been a failure. She got on Vogue.com at 2 a.m., as she often did before bed, and couldn’t believe her eyes when she saw herself seated on the homepage’s colorful wall.

Fashion has always been for her about the inner feelings that clothing and your personal style elicit. Certain garments have the ability to transform you, and she places a high value on quality. She is not going to spend a lot of money on something that’s just a gimmick. Her cut-out outfits and big pants will be worn a million times. She adores her clothes as each and every one is unique to her.

In Norway, she spent so many years apologizing for being different, for being an Orthodox Christian, for her accent, and for the way she spoke in conversations. However, she eventually realized that this is what distinguished her as a person. The fact that she has an accent, for example, indicates that she has studied another language. She has always felt like an outsider, and she still does, and there will always be a piece of her that feels like a refugee. And that is a part of her personality. However, her perspective on this is shifting. Eastern European block designers are gaining traction in the fashion industry, which she found hilarious. All of the things that she has been chastised for her entire life because of how she dressed are now fashionable. It’s only made her realize that she was an idiot. It turns out that she was the one who was stigmatizing herself.

That is a lesson for us all.