{"id":4384,"date":"2010-02-28T18:28:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T23:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=4384"},"modified":"2010-02-28T18:50:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T23:50:54","slug":"belated-new-york-fashion-week-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/belated-new-york-fashion-week-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated New York Fashion Week Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like I said in a previous post<\/a>, I was pretty busy during New York Fashion Week. When I wasn’t busy, I was delirious<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I managed to squeeze in a few shows but, unfortunately, not Vena Cava<\/a>‘s. I was getting dressed that morning with one eye on the computer when the news of Alexander McQueen’s suicide was broken by the Daily Mail. I couldn’t tear myself away from the developing story. (See my post for a massive amount of McQueen links<\/a>.) After the news was confirmed, I finally got out the door, jumped in a cab and thought I’d make it to the show … only to encounter crazy traffic due to an explosion in Chelsea<\/a>. When I saw on Twitter that the show had started, I had the cab turn around. An expensive trip to nowhere!<\/p>\n

I was consoled by seeing the Badgley Mischka<\/a> and Vera Wang<\/a> shows from the luxury of the American Express Skybox<\/a> (thanks to my gorgeous friends Shari and Ashley for hooking me up). The Skybox is my type of fashion experience: no pushing or shoving, full bar, sandwiches and cookies! The only drawback is that it’s hard to take pictures of the runway. Instead, I took a picture of youthful blogger\/Skybox visitor Becca, whose hairy pink jacket complemented my hairy purple jacket<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Image

Hairy jackets unite!<\/p><\/div>\n

Between Becca and Tavi<\/a>, I felt like I spent Fashion Week corrupting minors.<\/p>\n

I loved the faux-ny tail<\/a> fauxhawk<\/a> hairdos (very long, sides pulled tightly back) at Badgley Mischka<\/a>. I’ve already told my superstar stylist Julie Matos<\/a> that I’ll be wanting that look. But I didn’t know that the contemporary Mark & James line was going to be shown after the signature line, so I had a moment of panic: “WHERE DID THE BEAUTIFUL GOWNS GO?!” When it comes to Badgley Mischka, this<\/a> is what I like to see. One of the first really beautiful gowns that I had was by Badgley Mischka. I wore it to my gorgeous sister’s wedding in 2002.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Terri Berry the bride and me.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"<\/a>

With my friend Alyssa, showing off my matching shoes.<\/p><\/div>\n

I still have the gown and the shoes, of course<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While I don’t have anything of Vera Wang’s (maybe there was a bridesmaid dress once?), I enjoyed her “Film Noir<\/a>“-themed ready-to-wear show.A\u00a0 But seeing all the somber models wearing black, black and more black did make me think, “If I had to put on a fashion show right now, I’d have every outfit be red, yellow and\/or blue and tell the models to sing and dance down the runway.” What can I say? I’m an incorrigible contrarian<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At Milly<\/a>, I was again intrigued by hair. The side ponytails with berets were so cute! As were the bright tights, yellow gloves (I’m way ahead on that trend<\/a>), and this boob-bow dress<\/a>. After the Milly show, I collected gorgeous blogger Lenya Jones from the media room. She and I joined other gorgeous bloggers including Jennine of The Coveted<\/a>, Stacy of tafettadarlings<\/a>, Midtown Girl<\/a>, 39th and Broadway<\/a> and Fashion Herald<\/a> at Southwest Porch<\/a> right next to the tents at Bryant Park. Somehow I didn’t realize that Southwest Porch was outside until we got there and sat down in below-freezing temperatures. Most of us managed to hang out for more than an hour, even though it started to snow. When we finally got up to go, I couldn’t stop asking people, “What the hell is wrong with us? This is crazy!” It was great to see all the peeps but I think next time we want to meet up in the winter, we’ll do it inside.<\/p>\n

Here’s a final picture. I’m wrapped in my shearling coat, trying to pretend I’m not freezing. Lenya is trying to make a s’more over a tiny little heat lamp, but I don’t think her marshmallow ever thawed out. Jennine is in the background on the left.<\/p>\n

\"Image

The weather outside was frightful!<\/p><\/div>\n

Lenya has more photos<\/a>. I’m trying to make her leave Australia and move to New York so I can see her all the time. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like I said in a previous post, I was pretty busy during New York Fashion Week. When I wasn’t busy, I was delirious. I managed to squeeze in a few shows but, unfortunately, not Vena Cava‘s. I was getting dressed that morning with one eye on the computer when the news of Alexander McQueen’s suicide…<\/p>\n

Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,65,15,83,424,41],"tags":[423],"class_list":["post-4384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-blogs-and-bloggers","category-designers","category-gorgeous-family","category-gorgeous-friends","category-new-york-fashion-week","category-pictures-of-me","tag-nyfw","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t