Fall(ing) Leaves

A/W childrenswear project from Apparel Design I last year

It's the most wonderful time of the year! In only a few hours it'll be October and I will finally be able to relax in the fact that it's nearly Halloween. I recently dyed my hair bright orange-based red and hope the leaves on the trees will start to match me. And I'm slowly transitioning into wearing long sleeves! Autumn in New York is also the most interesting season, fashion-wise. On the train you will see all stages of bundling up: from the brave t-shirt-and-shorts wearer to the puffer and fur coat clad bunch. Get ready!

Red Head

Also, embarrassing fact: I could not understand why in fashion lingo, Fall/Winter was abbreviated to A/W...Autumn....wow

Welcome to the Jungle

NYFW with my fashionably unfashionable Colorado friend

It's been a busy few weeks and there's been so many things I've wanted to update about but somehow none of it manifested in blog form. With how many great things are happening to me, it's hard to sort out what I most want to share. I've been beyond overwhelmed so it's a lot to take in and process, I suppose.

This has been the first fashion week I really participated in and it's crazy to be able to actually hold a conversation about the clothes sent down the runways. As the runway shows move "across the pond" I can feel NYC take a big gasp of breathe: the season-showing finish line has almost been reached. Coterie, one of the biggest trade shows, ends today and I know that Christian will have a big sigh of relief after all is over. I am insanely happy that I have not been his studio for the past few weeks-I'm sure it's been mayhem trying to complete the spring collection. Though, it's sad I wasn't able to see it all the way through.

Which brings me to another topic: although I decided last year that I would save my interning credits until senior year, I stumbled upon a few amazing opportunities that I couldn't pass up. Well, unfortunately, I actually did have to pass up a few...BUT, I can proudly announce I am officially an intern at Calvin Klein. It's weird but I've never really had any need to strive to create my own name in the industry, I've always wanted to just work under somebody. That's why it's so exciting to me to be able to be a part of a massive company. Working for Christian, although very hands-on and intimate, was not exactly where I view myself in ten years. I'm still really trying to find where I want to be in the future, but I think that something completely out of my comfort zone will really benefit me. I mean, Calvin Klein, wow!

strange coincidences of my life:
This was the model I dressed for the Duckie Brown fashion show
Also, when I went in for an interview at Marc Jacobs, his walk was on the TV in the reception area
...male models, nbd

But even with being surrounded by fifty shades of gray at all times in that office environment, I'm still managing to keep my aesthetic as bright and obnoxious as ever. Today was our first big critique in our studio class and, although I was at a loss as to the direction of my project, I managed to finish it enough for me to be satisfied. I'll share the galactic lace monstrosity in another post, but it's been a huge sigh of relief to get the first project out of the way and realize: YES I CAN. Yes we can. Junior year is not as impossible as I had expected and is, in fact, liberating. Being off campus with my internship almost a third of the week and having the freedom and ability to design and manipulate my garments however I choose really gives me incentive to actual get out of bed in the morning. Thank goodness...

Also, tumblr... I have no camwhoring shame

Late Bloomer

a sneak peak of how boring my tumblr is gonna be
xoxo, Gossip Girl

So, I can officially say that I've suffered through championed two years of fashion design-y goodness in the great city of New York. However, I cannot say that I've ever really experienced fashion week; instead, I have experienced the softness of my bed. (to be fair, freshman year I tried to sneak into Betsey Johnson's show but was discouraged by a slight chance of thunder storms but...who's counting!) Well, I say to this: NO MORE! and I vow to make it outside my quarters into the city every chance I get until fashion week is over. I've even created a tumblr that I plan on update daily with outfit posts and iphone pics. I'm very original and am probably the first to think of this idea (HAHAHAHAHAHA) but I think it will be a beneficial way to keep myself from throwing on the same thing every single day of my life....I'm talkin to you, denim shorts and generic band tees!!

Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen/Pratt Student

So, I read this little piece on the Fashionista and thought, hey, why should FIT have all the fun?! Here's my
"Fashion Art School (Pratt specifically) Confidential: 10 Lessons I Learned as a Fashion Student":

1. There are cats...lots of them. And naked people. Prepare.

2. The only almost-straight boy that's in your year that you TOTALLY dug the first week of school....yeah, the one that smells like a dead animal and smokes more than a muffler...will have slept with every straight female in your grade, as well as perhaps a fifth of the guys.

3. Your hair will end up a different color.

4. You will eat the same thing every day at some point in time because it will be the only thing you deem edible from the cafeteria.

5. You will lose and find friends like socks: some you will lose forever, some you will find in really weird places, and some you will buy (some cheaper than others).

6. You will forget what a shower is.

7. You will become a pro at looking like a hobo. An expensively dressed hobo.

8. Pierce. Everything.

9. After orientation, architecture majors are no longer your friend. They are robots, they are isolationists, and they probably drink blood.

10. It's not what you thought it would be: it's better/worse depending on the day. Especially if that day is Saturday.

True Life:

I'm a manic pixie dream girl.

Welcome back, school! It's been a week and I'm already more excited for this semester than I have been for  the whole summer. Now that I'm actually in classes I'm realizing how far I've come and how close I am to what I came here for. Life is exciting again.

Here are the classes I'm taking:

• Ecology for Fashion (sustainability...aka yoga class)
• Computer Aided Illustration
• Shape and Form (lingerie!)
• Knitwear
• Jewelry (metalworking!)
• Italian
• World Civilization (history)
• AND.......................................................................internship! I've been hearing back from a few of my "reach" internships so I'm insanely ecstatic to even get an interview.

So anyway, I figured it would be fitting to share this video (something I've been meaning to do since the first time I saw it):

 I PAID THE CAB DRIVER IN BUTTONS!