my week in fashion.

This week was super busy and exciting for me! It was also the first full week of class, which was a tad tiring.
Tuesday I caught up with my good friend Johnny. We had bagels and iced tea in Washington Sq Park. And we sat near a man playing the piano! I miss sitting in the wsp and people watching.

Wednesday was Anna's fashion show, which I got to attend! and I snagged a seat shortly before the show started!! I had no idea what to wear, so I kind of threw together a lot of trends (denim shirt, tulle skirt, sky high heels and sparkly bow tie) and ended up with this. But I got lots of compliments on my bow tie!!

Bright and early the next day, I went to work and promptly unpacked the clothes from the show. It's amazing how much detail is in the clothes once you see them up close!

All day Friday and Saturday, I assisted with appointments in the showroom. It sounds easy enough (all I did was hand the clothes to my boss), but I had to do it for 11 hours straight for two days, with only a 10-20 minute break for lunch. I was so tired by the second day.
Random snapshots from the week:

modeling hats from the runway

I really liked my nails this week!! 

baby parade!

Fashion Week part II.

Here are my favorites from the second half of NY fashion week. My favorite collections, over all are stil Jason Wu and Jenny Packham. (all images via nymag)

Anna Sui

Derek Lam

Elie Tahari

Jenny Packham

Thakoon

Timo Weiland

my week in eats: 9/4-9/10

My first week of school was also filled with lots of yummy food! I made cornbread muffins for Gigi and had two Shanghai reunions!

Gorilla Cheese truck outside Stern

line at 53rd & 6th halal

chicken and rice

cornbread!

"family" dinner

Joe's Shanghai

bubble tea

First week of school!

I had a lovely first week of school! I love the excitement that the fall brings: new school year, new classes, new school supplies (!!!), new friends, the new possibilities are endless! This semester I feel that I am finally taking classes for my major, which is wonderful! I'm taking Advertising and Society, Media History of New York, Photography and the Visual Archive, Entertainment Media Industries and science. I'm a little worried that taking three comm classes might be a bit too much down the road, but I find these subjects so exciting and so enjoyable.
The first two days of school were rainy and gloomy. I chose to go with a darker color palette: all shades of blue ranging from periwinkle to navy and purples. Finally on Thursday, it was nice and sunny, so I brought out a slight nod to summer with a chambray dress, and transitioned it to fall with my favorite military coat.

And then for my internship on Friday, I opted to wear a very summery yellow dress that I wore earlier this summer because there won't be very many more 80+ degree days! (not that I'm complaining)

My friend Jeff found this really funny picture on tumblr of a funny text you can send on iphone. If you send a simple smiley face, the way that iphone (and some other smart phones) format text messages makes it look like a whale!! I'm obsessed with sending whales now!

Fashion week also started this week. Anna's show isn't until Wednesday evening, but I've been keeping close tabs on all the shows in the meantime. I'm a huge fan of the purple at Prabal Gurung! Although once I actually got a good look at the makeup, I was quite confused by the pink fluorescent lips with the black center, so it looks like the mouth is open. I'm also not a huge fan of the slicked back, wet hair seen at several shows, including Prabal Gurung. But of course, Jason Wu is still my ultimate favorite. His looks are so lady like! forever swoon. (all images nymag)

Christian Siriano

Jason Wu and my favorite model, Karlie Kloss

love the sparkly collar

Suno, I like how the print fades to abstract

Jenni Kayne

Luca Luca, love the turban!!

Peter Som, love the color combos! so fun!

Porter Grey

Prabal Gurung

Random snapshots from the week:

fluffy dog getting his hair dried outside Think!!

sunscreen

Barneys Warehouse Sale

I (unexpectedly) went to the warehouse sale this past Tuesday with my Production bosses. This was my first time going to the sale with other people, so it was really fun trying on designer clothes and shoes that we couldn't afford, but saw on the runway. I didn't have any success with the clothing. There were a few Phillip Lim sweaters that were nice, but still out of my price range.
However, I did find some shoes! I ended up getting a pair of jelly See by Chloe sandals and Maloles Paris wedges. I've already worn both pairs twice! and I think I'm going to get a lot of usage out from the wedges.

the Nicholas Kirkwood x Rodarte shoes!!!

a sea of Wangs

(final) Intern diaries: week nine

This was my last week interning full time! I'm quite sad that it's going to be much busier now that I'm only interning on Fridays. This week was generally quite exhausting. My main task this week was devoted to training our new interns—all four of them! I didn't realize that there's actually a lot to learn, but it comes so second nature to me I think nothing of it. I think they'll be fine though.
My favorite outfit this week was Wednesday's. Not only did I wear heels but I also mixed three prints! three! I think my yellow gingham, blue shibori print and metallic snake skin went well together! This was my first time wearing heels to work. Let's just say I regretted not bringing flats to wear home.

I finally met my roommate and suitemates earlier this week. After three years in housing, I think I finally lucked out in the roommate department! I have a really good feeling about this year!
Yesterday, I visited my friend Johnny at his new apartment near South Street Seaport. It's a little far for me, but he does have plenty of space, an elevator and a doorman! We decided to go plant shopping near FIT and got two plants. One of them, we discovered, had a little snail in the pot. We named him Emperor Mortimer, natch.

Last night, I went to the Big Gay Ice Cream Shop with Ray and Eunice! I got the choinkwich—chocolate cookies, chocolate ice cream and candied bacon. Pretty yummy, but I think vanilla ice cream might have been better. Next time, I think I want the cococone: vanilla cone rolled in toasted, curried coconut.

Snap shots from the week:

Gigi and his pet balloon, also named Gigi

setting up my room