Happy Fashion Week Socialites!! Sunday at New York Fashion Week, online retailer, Zaden Row, provided me with the perfect photo opportunity in front of the iconic Lincoln Center with this awesome polaroid-style frame. I even made some new friends in the process of getting my picture taken and tweeted. You should check out Zaden Row. They have a great inventory of New York style clothing organized by neighborhood so you can shop like a New Yorker no matter where you’re from.
One of the best parts of being a fashion blogger in New York is of course New York Fashion Week. It’s amazing that all the shows and celebrities sitting front row are practically in my backyard. Yesterday, I attended Nicole Miller’s SS13 show at Lincoln Center. Her SS13 collection was a fun combination of 70s tie dye-inspired designs and black leather.
Leather over brights with long straight 70s hair.
Whiteout!
Models on the runway
Finale!
Keep your high heels on ladies because beginning today (Feb. 10th) New York branding and communications agency, The Promotion Factory, is providing fashionistas with a free ride to all the major shows at New York Fashion Week. Keep an eye out for Fashion Wheels at Lincoln Center, Milk Studios, and everywhere in between. They are also providing real time location updates on the @ThePromoFact Twitter using the hashtag #FashionWheels.
Looks like you won’t be needing a limo to ride around the city in style. I’m so looking forward to not having to deal with cabs or subways while rushing around to all the shows and parties on my itinerary. Plus, it’s going to be a blast bonding with fellow fashionistas and sharing our Fashion Week experiences on the bus.
#FASHIONWHEELS SCHEDULE:
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2012
PICKUP: 1PM, JASON WU / ST. JOHNS CENTER STUDIOS
DROP-OFF: 3PM, REBECCA MINKOFF, LINCOLN CENTER
PICKUP: 3PM, REBECCA MINKOFF, LINCOLN CENTER
DROP-OFF: 5PM, RAG & BONE, HUDSON RIVER PARK’S PIER 57
PICKUP: 5PM, RAG & BONE / PIER 57
DROPOFF: 7PM CHARLOTTE RONSON / LINCOLN CENTER
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2012
PICKCUP: AFTER RACHEL ROY, CAROLINA HERRERA 1PM, LINCOLN CENTER
DROP-OFF: 2PM, DONNA KARAN / 547 W 26TH STREET
PICKUP: 2PM, DONNA KARAN / 547 W 26TH STREET
DROP-OFF: 3PM, 3.1 PHILLIP LIM / HIGHLINE STAGES
PICK-UP: 6PM, BETSEY JOHNSON / LINCOLN CENTER
DROP-OFF: 8PM, MARC JACOBS / ARMORY
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2012
PICK-UP: 9AM, NORMA KAMALI / PIER 59
DROP-OFF: 10AM, MICHAEL KORS / LINCOLN CENTER
PICKUP: 11AM, NANETTE LAPORE / LINCOLN CENTER
DROP-OFF: 12P, PORTS 1961 / NY PUBLIC LIBRARY
**Pickup & Drop-off times are subject to change with show schedule delays
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week has never been known for its gourmet cuisine. When going from show to show to party to lounge during New York Fashion Week, it is often hard to find good food around Lincoln Center or any food at all for that matter. On Saturday, for example, all I had to eat before 4 p.m. were two Belvedere screwdrivers. It’s not that you have to make a conscious decision not to eat, it’s that there is virtually no food available at Fashion Week. Thanks to a stoke of genius on the part of model/philanthropist, Elettra Wiedemann, who is celebrating her sixth year as the face of Lancôme, is providing fashionistas with healthy, yet filling meals directly in the middle of the Fashion Week action at the pop-up restaurant, GOODNESS. Here I am pictured with Elettra at the opening. Clearly, I am far too short to be a model. To put this project together, the renown model who is also a graduate of the London School of Economics, teamed up with Michelin star chef, Ed Brown, and the source of all things Fashion Week, The Daily Front Row.
Located in what is usually Ed’s Chowder House, GOODNESS is open from Sept. 11-14 from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. serving both breakfast and lunch. Everyday will feature a different chef. Therefore, even if you are in the tents all week, you will get a different dining experience every time you visit GOODNESS. All dishes are locally sourced and environmentally-friendly made special for those on a couture budget. The menu is virtually split in two offering customers GOODNESS with a Touch of BADNESS. I wish I could tell you what the food there tastes like, but in true Fashion Week style none was available at the press preview. To reserve your table visit GoodnessBadness.com.
They say you can never be too rich or too thin. With the psychological ballerina thriller, Black Swan, up for best picture, thin is in. Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week just got a little bit more sparkle with the Diet Pepsi Skinny Can. To compliment its thin physique, the Skinny Can stands a total of 6 inches tall which is comparable to 6 feet (model height) in the sassy world of soda. The Skinny Can will be available in stores nationwide in March. But, first “The Skinny” (as I like to call it) is currently making a stop on the runways of New York Fashion Week (Feb.10-17.)
Aside from the festivities and sexy window displays going on at the Diet Pepsi Style Studio located in Soho at 362 West Broadway, Diet Pepsi will be offering onsite refreshments at Lincoln Center with exclusive giveaways and sponsorships. Diet soda is all about having your cake and eating it too. You don’t have to be a socialite to know that zero calorie sweetness is indulgence at its best. I guess champagne won’t be the only sparkling beverage gracing the runways and after parties of New York Fashion Week.