This is what New York Fashion week looks like.
And this is what New York Fashion Week looks like:
I worked my first show last night, and it was pretty awesome. Not only did the jewelry I was wearing look really pretty on my throat and wrists, it meant I merited my very own trenchcoat-wearing, portly, Italianish Noo Yawk bodyguard when I went from backstage out to the building foyer to whisk my college friend Greg in from the cold. All photos by college friend Greg. You’re a trooper, dude!
Since fashion week had not officially begun yesterday evening — things kicked off today with a massive parade of BlackBerry-dingling fashionistas, models in lockstep, singing stylists, and the requisite drag queens down Fifth Avenue, didn’t you hear? — the show I worked was not a “show” but a “presentation.” Instead of marching down a runway, we got our hair did and our shiny leggings shimmied into and our Space Age Sophia Loren faces on and our two-inch acrylic nails that impeded manual dexterity to an amazing degree glued, and then we posed. For two hours. In front of a gaggle of gawkers. Important gawkers, I’m sure.
The blonde in the middle of the top row, in the red-and-black dress, was from Australia and she was really cool. One of the girls had her period — you can perhaps imagine how difficult it was to place a tampon with those damn nails on. Toileting myself during my one break was hard enough — I had to get a stylist’s assistant to help me jack up the shiny tights afterwards. You have to lower some of the boundaries around your body to model.
But hot damn! Did I love how I looked in the yellow get-up.
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More to come, darlings.
3 responses so far ↓
Peter // February 3, 2008 at 12:46 am
Wow! What a get-up! I don’t know which is crazier, your nails or the bling around your neck! Holy crap! It should go without saying you’re as beautiful as always!
Dad // February 4, 2008 at 5:44 am
I found the hair most impressive. How long did it take the stylist to tease that do out of you? However, I was most pleased to see that you were not the thinnest model appearing in the “presentation”. You go girl.
photojenna // February 5, 2008 at 5:42 pm
The hair was done in about thirty minutes, actually. They gave us these cornrows at the nape of the neck, stitched them to the scalp hair with elastic, so the pouf on top was actually not as dense as you might guess. They just set us in curlers and then whipped it all up like a soufflé. Kind of impressive to watch.
And hell, if there’s one arena in life where I won’t always be the skinniest, it’s certainly modeling. So yay for the tail end of the bell curve.
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