A sub-category or you can say the opposite of the dark academia aesthetic. This academia is more focused on the theme “beauty in life” and “finding happiness in small things”. Some common attributes include art, music, open fields and plants, old books, poems, outdoors and being social.
BOOKS
This aesthetic seems very poetic and emotional. The first person I think about after hearing light academia is Jane Austen.
Emma by Jane Austen
“a novel about youthful hubris and romantic misunderstandings. It is set in the fictional country village of Highbury and the surrounding estates of Hartfield, Randalls and Donwell Abbey, and involves the relationships among people from a small number of families.”
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
“a collection of romantic poems by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, first published in 1924 by Editorial Nascimento of Santiago, when Neruda was 19. It was Neruda’s second published work, after Crepusculario and made his name as a poet.
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
“Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances that he determines to become a knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, his exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote’s fancy often leads him astray—he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants—Sancho acquires cunning and a certain sagacity. Sane madman and wise fool, they roam the world together, and together they have haunted readers’ imaginations for nearly four hundred years.”
MOVIES
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
“France, 1770. Marianne, a painter, is commissioned to do the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Héloïse is a reluctant bride to be and Marianne must paint her without her knowing. She observes her by day, to paint her secretly”
Call Me By Your Name (2017)
“It’s the summer of 1983, and precocious 17-year-old Elio Perlman is spending the days with his family at their 17th-century villa in Lombardy, Italy. He soon meets Oliver, a handsome doctoral student who’s working as an intern for Elio’s father. Amid the sun-drenched splendor of their surroundings, Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever.”
Little Women (2019)
“In the years after the Civil War, Jo March lives in New York and makes her living as a writer, while her sister Amy studies painting in Paris. Amy has a chance encounter with Theodore, a childhood crush who proposed to Jo but was ultimately rejected. Their oldest sibling, Meg, is married to a schoolteacher, while shy sister Beth develops a devastating illness that brings the family back together.”
CLOTHING
- Turtlenecks
- Corduroy jackets, pants or sweaters
- Plaid pants
- Cardigans
- Rings, bracelets (golden)
- Light earthly colors are preferred
MUSIC
- Calm Classical
- Lana Del Ray
- Conan Gray
- Edith Piaf
Some playlists:
Paracosm & Stuff 