NY Fashion Week: What I Wore

♥  gray tank top I've had forever. From Express?

♥ jacket from H&M

♥ Rodarte for Target skirt that I got on ebay

♥ Jeffrey Campbell shoes

♥ belt that belongs to my roommate Niv

♥ brick wall that belongs to my building, haha

Also, I got a haircut.

yaaaaaaay.

what have you been up to?!

Fashion's Night Out 2010

Dude I can not believe that it's Friday already! Let me tell you someting. Fashion's Night Out was so much fun this year.  I volunteered at the Braccialini boutique in SoHo. Braccialini is an eclectic Italian accessory brand, and they did a collaboration with Parsons. A Parsons student designed those two purses in the window- they cost 1,000 dollars each! Aren't they beautiful?  Since the theme for the bags was candy, the store decided to have an event for FNO called "City Sweet".  There was candy, and there were Gromme gelato carts...it was so much fun!

The interns!

First, four of us helped to set everything up- including carrying heavy cases of water up some real narrow creepy basement stairs in heels! Then my job was to go around the streets telling people about the brand and trying to get them to check out the event and the store. By the end of the night, I had massive blisters on my feet, but it was a good experience and I met some fun people. Shout out to the guys from the Armani store- thanks for letting us stand on your sidewalk, ahah!

Tae and Jack reppin' their "crew" tags.

All of the interns were from Parsons.

How to prounouce Braccialini: Bra like bra, cha like do the cha-cha, and lini like tortellini!

The payless bus drove people around all night.

At some point during the night, Pharrell (N.E.R.D) performed in the middle of the street! I got to stop working for a minute (because uh, obviously no one was listening to me with music blasting) and I got to stand there eating gelato and listen. It was awesome.

The line outside of Chanel was RIDONKULOUS

After we finished helping out, we left and headed over to where our friend was working. Alexander Wang was there, and they had vodka iced tea, and the DJ. was. reaaaally good. It was a fun time.

The DJ. We look so short next to him, haha!

Alexander Wang

Soo yeah! That was my Fashion's Night Out experience for September 2010! How did you celebrate Fashion's Night Out this year?

Volunteering at New York Fashion Week: My Experience

Hey duckies! I know I haven't posted in a bit, but hopefully this makes up for it.

A few weekends ago I had the opportunity to volunteer for two very different companies for fashion week.  Here I will tell you about my experience!

On Friday, I worked for a company called Modelinia. They are a website, www.modelinia.com, that follows models and keeps you updated on model news. Their tagline is, "because models don't get enough attention", which I thought was pretty funny.

I heard about Modelinia from a friend. A few Parsons students were going to volunteer for them throughout the weekend.

In my opinion, they did not treat their volunteers very well, being misleading about what we were actually going to do.  At first, I worked in their office for a bit.  Then, the schedule said that my group of volunteers would be "at Bryant Park", or "at the tents".  Once I arrived and saw my friend Jack standing next to a ginormous pile of magazines, it was clear that we were going to be outside in the freezing cold for six hours, trying to force Modelinia magazine on the passers-by.  They had not told us in advance that we would be outside, so most of us were not dressed properly for the job.
They also tried to make us stay well past our previously established shifts, which we weren't getting paid for it.  I am all for starting at the bottom, and I understand that interns and volunteers have to do the work that no one else wants to do.  However, I could not feel my feet!


The only good part was that I met the band Semi Precious Weapons! They are super fantastic, put on an awesome show, and have opened for Lady Gaga (a few years ago, she was opening for them!)  They were also reallyyy nice, called me "baby", and took a picture with me. Haha!

They are gorgeous. ♥

The next day I was supposed to work for a designer, Ivy H. 
She's a Parsons alumni, and she has a beautiful website (www.ivyh.net).  I knew that we would be helping out with an actual fashion show, so I was a bit nervous. However, I was also super excited!
Before the show started, there was a lot of running around and doing a million tasks at once. Everything had to be perfect, many things were going wrong, and it was not as glamourous as you might think!  But it was an amazing experience and I loved working for Ivy. I hope to help her out again next season!
The clothes were beautiful. Ivy's influence for this season was Japanese Samurai and armour.  I got to help dress the models in these beautiful clothes!

Coat check. So glam.

Me and my friend Jack, another volunteer.

The beautiful models doing an after-show photoshoot.

The amazing Ivy fixing an outfit for the shoot. (I am in love with that coat!)

One of the fabulous models!

Ivy and her interns.


Ivy let us all hang out after the show, and gave us some advice about being a designer.  Her main tips were, to paraphrase: 
♥ work hard,
♥ don't lose focus, and 
♥ don't let the haters stand in your way!


She also talked about not letting boys get in your way. Having a boyfriend is sooo not the most important thing in life! "I ♥ fashion! Fashion is my boyfriend!"
And I ♥ you!


xx, Nikkidee :]

Repeat

Hello, hello cuties!

I have been getting back into the swing of things with school lately, and I am already crazy-busy. So, I apologize if this post is a bit all over the place.

It's all good though, "it's whatever", haha!

Here is a song that I've been playing on repeat for the past couple of weeks:

So good! Seriously, the Dear Hunter rock, check out the rest of their stuff.

In terms of fashion and style it has been FREEZING here in New York lately, so I have been

layering like ka-raazy.

I've also been wearing a lot of blue and black, but I will always stay true to my red coat !, so most days my outfits end up looking something like this:

COLD by nikkidee featuring Paul Smith tops

I sense I may be settling into a GAWTH period, haha!

We'll see, though. I'm waiting to see what NEW YORK FASHION WEEK is going to bring us!

Who else is excited?!

xx Nikkidee