Hi, I'm Tamara! I am the founder, creator, and voice of taltair.com. I'm sharing my mood boards, recipes, playlists, and experiences.
I live in sneaker silicon valley where I spend my days buying for your favorite sneaker brand. It took me a while to realize why its important to continue to share my journey. Many of you have known me as Malibu Mara, where I started blogging in college while studying fashion merchandising. I am thankful to have inspired many people to read fashion books, go to college, to believe they can follow a career in fashion.
There are so few people of color in this industry, and it is built around us. We are the mood boards, we have the coolest playlists and not many know our story. I stopped blogging shortly after moving because I wasn't as inspired to share. I was busy in real life as part of the Black employee resource group (now a co-chair! 😉), traveling, working in this fashion space... mental health wise, I was going through a lot and ghosted as a form of self care.
But then the same feelings came back. Why don't I have an online catalog with inspiration and things that I like and want to reference in my own space... oh-- like a blog? I get it, times have definitely changed. While I will be sharing most of this information through other platforms, I want this little slice of the internet as a personal catalog where everything lives in a place that I own and maintain. Let's not act like the threat of banning tik-tok didn't mean the end of a lot of the creators who ONLY used that platform to promote.
After talking to many people IRL, I think my experiences would have helped others going through the same, and TBH I loved sharing my 10 year growth on my old blog. I want to keep sharing, I honestly miss it. I want to build a community and I am glad you are here!
