EXCLUSIVE: YouTuber Aaliyah Jay Is Breaking Into The Fashion World And Is Making Her Own Rules

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How Aaliyah Jay Became Inspired To Do Fashion History Videos

“A couple [of] years ago, I started reading up on history facts. It wasn’t fashion though. It was just history facts,” Aaliyah Jay explained. “I know a lot about New York City, which is where I’m from, and about people back from the 1800s. I know a lot of stuff about that. I watched a lot of documentaries. I didn’t realize it until recently but I follow all these history pages, where I read a whole bunch of history facts, and somehow that’s how I fall asleep every single night,” Jay continued. “This was around the time when I started to really indulge in fashion, and really take myself serious[ly] in fashion. Everything that we’re doing now has already been done years ago. It made me think, ‘Wow, there’s so much history attached to fashion’ and I was like, ‘oh my god, I can do fashion history videos!,'” Jay said gleefully. “These are two fields that I really love, and I just decided to combine them. [I film the videos while] doing my makeup, because I’m still into makeup. It’s like three things that I really love, all in one video, and I [thought] ‘wow, that’s genius.'”

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