Style Setters 2009: Brooke Kao

Eighteen of Washington’s most stylish people show their best stuff.

By Jill Hudson Neal    Published Thursday, October 01, 2009

Photograph by Matthew Worden.

Photograph by Matthew Worden.

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Brooke Kao

American University student who writes a popular fashion blog

“Brooke is a very good painter, and she instinctively gets how shapes and textures fit together. You can see it in how she mixes layers and colors. She wears a lot of consignment and vintage pieces from the flapper and mod eras, but she never looks like she stepped out of another decade. She always looks modern.”

—Andrew Peng, friend and Richard Montgomery High School student

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