Ramblings from a Far Off Place

ready for my close up?

Twenty-seven days until my birthday. It's crazy how quickly this break has flown by! I'm still incredibly unoccupied due to the Italian school year being staggered a bit differently than the US's. I haven't been busy at all and I think that hasn't been doing me any good so I'm going to attempt to delve back into what I love best: fashion.

I've been pining to sew recently and I suppose that demonstrates my utter lack of time occupation. I want to find myself back in the garment district, sifting through yards of yellow fabric, searching for the perfect "pencil yellow." I want to be with my friends in classes, stressing over homework, and procrastinating stressing. And I guess I will be back in NYC come February 5th...just in time for fashion week. I feel like such a novice when it comes to the industry that New York Fashion Week still seems so magical to me. I was never one to drool over runway photos as soon as they appeared online; style.com just recently came into my vernacular. But after what I personally have experienced, now that I know the difference between the garments made for high fashion and the trash that has become fast fashion it's hard to unglue myself from browsing runway images.

I can't say it enough, but I am so blessed to be able to live in New York. Thinking "oh, I'm going home to NYC" isn't just, like, "oh, I'm going home", it's "I'M GOING TO THE BIGGEST, CRAZIEST CITY IN THE WHOLE US AND IT IS MY HOME". When I was in high school I definitely felt a huge disconnect from the whole fashion scene and until recently I definitely have as well. Last fashion week was my "coming out" of sorts--I dressed two shows and got photographed a few times in Lincoln Center. But I want this season to be a complete emersion in fashion; this is the first time that I've been in NY and I have no obligations (NO classes, NO job, NO stress, and NO inhibitions) the week of fashion week and this'll probably be the last/only time I'll be this lucky. Oh, and I just bought a DSLR and business cards so I'm set to look official enough to be sniping pictures of people.

THIS FEBRUARY IS GONNA BE THE BEST MONTH EVER....but, like, seriously.