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This Fashion Week Travel on Fashion Wheels

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

Elettra Wiedemann & The Daily Front Row Launch GOODNESS Pop-up Restaurant During Fashion Week

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.

 

Fashion’s Night Out Insanity in Meatpacking


Like thousands of other great fashionistas, I spent my Fashion’s Night Out 2011 cursing the shops of the Meatpacking District in search of free drinks and couture. It’s like one big free party where the guests of honor are the clothes. I started out the evening with a mixed drink at Hugo Boss. There, I got the urge to take a picture of myself in the mirror to show off both my outfit and the store as a whole. I kept doing this at every single store throughout the night.

My next stop was Matthew Williamson (pictured left) where the colors were vibrant as always. Due to some rambunctious fashion lovers last year, the House of Matthew Williamson had a strict two drink maximum. With lines around the block, Alexander McQueen was harder to get into than Will and Kate’s Royal Wedding. So I headed over to Diane von Furstenberg which had crowds of its own and some really awesome dresses. After stopping by Catherine Malandrino and Scoop, I hopped around some more and finished the evening with a mojito at Carlos Mieli. FNO is always a good time.

On Fashion’s Night Out, celebrities make appearances everywhere. I was secretly hoping to see a Kardashian. The girls from the new cast of America’s Next Top Model All Stars took over the Express store in SoHo.

The crazy shoes of FNO! Everyone was taking pictures of this girl’s shoes.

The streets of Meatpacking were transformed into a couture-driven Disney World. Can’t wait until next year.

A Lovely Morning at Lucky Magazine and Lord & Taylor’s Shop. Eat. Blog. Breakfast


I’ve never been a morning person, but the allure of a Lord & Taylor breakfast shopping spree with Lucky Magazine is enough to get any socialite out of bed before noon. This morning, I began New York Fashion Week with a “Fashion’s Morning In” so to speak at the Lord & Taylor on 424 Fifth Ave. Before the store had even opened its doors to the public, the fashion elite and I were on the second floor drinking coffee and eating pastries discussing shopping strategies with Suze Yalof Schwartz, Lord & Taylor’s Fashion Editor at Large previously the Executive Fashion Editor at Large of Glamour Magazine.

Suze has some great suggestions as to what is in for fall including 3 key fall trends: Shine (sparkles and sequins), Colorblocking, and Bright Colored Jeans. All of which are available this season at Lord & Taylor. For those of you who have trouble getting dressed in the early hours of the morning, she suggests you stock up on dresses to pair with a great bag and a great pair of shoes. That way it is less to think about in the morning. Great advice considering that the earlier I have to wake up, the less fashionable I appear. Many thanks to Lucky Magazine and Lord & Taylor for the invite. I couldn’t think of a better way to begin my Fashion Week.

Early this morning over coffee, Suze Yalof Schwartz taught us how to do the perfect skinny pose, a technique taught to her by supermodel Cindy Crawford.  It’s quite simple really.  You turn your body all the way to the side then turn your front foot toward the camera and your body three quarters of the way to the front so all of your face, but only half of your body is in view of the camera.  Don’t Suze and I look skinny?

Disclaimer: Aspiring Socialite was gifted a $200 Lord & Taylor gift card at this event.

Twas the Night Before Fashion Week

Twas the night before Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week
And all thought the city
Not a Chihuahua was stirring
Because everyone looked pretty

The Prada bags were hung in the showroom with care
In hopes that something Chanel soon would be there

Anna Wintour in Louboutin heels
And I in Tory Burch flats
Had just settled down for a much-needed nap

For socialites, every week is Fashion Week and every night is Fashion’s Night Out. During the official Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, however, you have to celebrate a little bit harder. On this very rainy eve of New York Fashion Week it is time we all took in one last breath and a long nap in preparation for all of the elegantly overwhelming shows, parties, previews, and appearances to come.

Tomorrow night Sept. 8th (6-11 pm) I will be cruising around the Meatpacking District rain or shine in celebration of Fashion’s Night Out. I can’t think of a better way to begin Fashion Week than with extended shopping hours everywhere complete with free champagne and hors d’oeuveres to compliment the already wonderful shopping experience. Who knows what surpirizes this monumental week has in store for us. Our old childhood friend, Barbie, will even be making an appearance. Seeing that none of us can be in two places at once, all shows will be streaming on YouTube. Get ready to be as busy as Rachel Zoe.

Join me as I relax to the musical stylings of Glee: