Well-Dressed Vegan Makes Exception for Fur Fashion

Adrian Avina, has a closet that would make Lady Gaga weep. Plastic jackets, skinned foxes? You name it, Avina has it.

Gilroy Patch caught up with him and asked a few fashion questions.

Gilroy Patch: Can you describe what you’re wearing and where you got everything?

Adrian Avina: Well, currently I am in head-to-toe American Apparel, and these shoes I got for $5 at Salvation Army. They were brand-new when I got them, but now they are a little scuffed up. They are party girl shoes.

Avina: Where do you like to shop?

Patch: I do a lot of shopping at Salvation Army, Savers, Goodwill and yard sales. I stop at every yard sale I can find. One of my neighbors has a yard sale every weekend!

Patch: How does your family feel about your style?

Avina: I live with my brother and grandpa. I show my brother my clothes all the time. He is always like, “Why are you do excited about your shoes?,” and I’m like, “They are $5!”

Patch: Is your hair a part of your fashion statement?

Avina: I’m just trying to look like Diana Ross.

Patch: Do you have any style icons?

Avina: No, not really. I kind of just see individual pieces and work them into my wardrobe. I bought this huge pink plastic jacket with a yellow zipper and turquoise triangles and I just had to have it. I don’t know when I’ll wear it, but the day will come where I will be strutting around in the grocery store wearing this big plastic jacket. 

Patch: Can you tell me about your closet?

Avina: I have a double rolling rack in my room. My closet is exploding. I have these black boxes that hold all of my shorts and pants. I have jackets hanging off the walls and hanging on my desk. There are just clothes everywhere. I buy a lot of stuff to sell. Sometimes I’ll try to gift it to someone or sell it to Crossroads or Black and Brown.

Patch: How often do you just gift clothes?

Avina: I love gifting clothes. I’m just like, here, give this a life and have fun with it. I’ll buy girl clothes and give them to my girl friends. I always tell people as long as you feel comfortable in what you’re wearing, nobody will care.

Patch: Do you have any shopping weaknesses?

Avina: Clothes are my weakness! Jackets are my weakness. I have like three bags full still of jackets from the Salvation Army during a half-off sale. I seriously bought seven trench coats.

Patch: What is the most expensive thing you have in your closet?

Avina: I love fur right now, real and fake. I actually just got a skinned fox. It has, like, the feet and head on it still. It’s just literally a skinned fox to wear as a scarf. I usually don’t eat a lot of meat; I thought it would be funny to go out to get vegan food, and say, hey, girl pass me that tofu, even though I’m wearing this fox!

Patch: What is the most daring thing you have in your closet?

Avina: I feel like everything is daring. I like see-through stuff. I love lace right now.

I kind of just go through every decade. I definitely want to be like more ‘80s, more plastic clothes. I’m not really a T-shirt kind of guy. My favorite T-shirt right now is a Manson T-shirt. I cut it into a crop top, and I love it now!