I LOVE NEW YORK Day 2

Day 2: The Met: American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity and WICKED!

For the second day of appointments, it was pretty chill. That morning we did a quick tour of central park... saw the boat house, Alice in Wonderland and Strawberry fields. 
The tour through Central Park led us to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. At the Met we had a docent guided tour of the Costume Institute's American Woman exhibit. 
I thought the exhibit was gorgeous, it had clothes from the 1890s-1930s and the mannequins were all wearing wigs designed by couture hair stylist Julien D'ys. The wigs on these mannequins were AMAZING! They were stylized representations of the time period, and when you got to the 1920s flapper.... those were just beautiful, very glitzy and glamourous. 

We weren't allowed to take pictures in the exhibit, but I got these from the Met's website. 
After going to the Met we walked down Madison, saw a bunch of preppy school girls, and went into some pretty pricy stores, visited the Ralph Lauren Mansion and then we did whatever before going to see Wicked that night!

My roommates and I at Wicked

Here is a Youtube video I found of Julien D'ys working on the Met's Model as a Muse exhibit from 2009.  I thought it was pretty interesting... check it out. 

So that was pretty much day 2, I think I'll post days 3&4 together before the end of the week... 
I'm really getting back to the blog... keep checkin in 

Fashion Against Aids

While in New York, I went to H&M alot... I think I went 3 or 4 times  in the course of a week. One of the times, I picked up this really great scarf. It has this great tribal vibe and 25% is donated to Fashion Against Aids.

Now some people get scared of scarves, but I love them! They are a great accesory and I think they are great to wear anytime of the year... Yes, they are harder to wear in the summer months but you just need to know how to do it right.  I can envision the scarf tied how it is on the mannequin with a white tank and some cut off denim shorts for a fun summery look.

I LOVE NEW YORK Day 1

So I just got back from my field study in New York trip... and lets just say it was awesome!
We got an amazing behind the scenes look at the world of fashion... and I got to do some shopping.
Some of the places we visited included: Vera Wang, Anna Sui, Nannette Lepore, Ralph Pucci Mannequins, Saks Fifth Avenue, The Met, Color Association, FIT, and Bloomingdales (Soho location). It was a great and informative trip, I would have updated as we went... however there was no internet access at the hotel... so I will update you starting now!


Day 1: 
So we got to New York on Saturday, did sight seeing Saturday and Sunday and then on Monday we started up with our appointments...
First we went to Vera Wang... and when I say we went to Vera Wang, I don't mean we went to a Vera Wang store... we went to the Showroom/Corporate office. It was awesome, we got to see where they make some of the clothes, where they design clothes, where they show clothes to clients, it was really really awesome.

After Vera Wang we went to see Anna Sui. We went to the showroom and got to see where they did some of the production.  I really enjoyed Anna Sui, her showroom was really neat and our tour was given by an alumni, who had majored in design but was now working in sales.

Then we did Nannette Lepore, the clothes were amazing, the speaker was on the boring side.

Between Nannette Lepore and going to Color Association... I ran into someone on the streets...

Glee's Matthew Morrison!

Color Association was really cool, they forecast colors two years in advanced. I didn't get any pictures... but believe me it was a really great place to visit and they had a really cool office. 


That was pretty much Day 1, I'll try to update as soon as I can with the report on the rest of my trip... and also with my new buys. I have added a couple new nail polishes to my collection, so be on the look out for new colors soon!

A Semester in Review

So with the Spring semester coming to an end, I am thoroughly excited and stressed out. I'm currently busy preparing for final exams, the little sister's graduation and my upcoming New York trip.

But I've already turned in my final project, made my last speeches, gone to my last classes, and its pretty much all down hill now.

This semester I took my first college level sewing class, and I loved it! We made some samples, I learned some new techniques... I got to sew on an industrial machine... my classroom is very reminiscent of the work room on Project Runway... complete with harried students rushing around trying to get their labs turned in on time.

But I pretty much aced that class, I love love love to sew, sew it was right up my alley.

This semester I took a public speaking class... which the teacher was cool, but I'm just not destined to be the next great orator of our time.  I took a political science class, which i will never make that mistake again. English was one of my favorite classes, apparently unicorns are indigenous to Alabama.  I also took a theatre class, where I pretty much learned nothing about theatre but I had to go see five shows. Which I figured out how they get people to go to the School productions... they are all graded on it.

But overall it was an ok semester. Even though I had to take more filler classes and less fashion related classes than I would like.

Now I am ready for summer... New York and more fashion.

Color Theory

It might have been the Clariton I am on that made me slightly loopy, or the fact that I have been immersed in color labs in design class... but I did it, or rather my friend Mary did... 

I colored a piece of my hair pink!  Its a small piece but it is pink all the same.

My friend Mary works in a hair salon and I was over there yesterday so the little sister could get a hair cut, we were the last customers and just hanging around... so I let her do it.