What a whirlwind week – as soon as it appeared it seemed to dissipate like a cloud of hairspray – quickly. By day two I was exhausted and I hadn’t even been enforcing the usual torture of high heels on myself. Nope this year I wisely stuck to flats – boots and sneakers.
I’ve been to every New Zealand Fashion Week since its second year in 2001. My first role at Fashion Week was during my final year of study, as a minder to visiting buyers and media. It was so much fun – I chauffeured buyers and media to appointments and took them shopping. The following years, after starting my first magazine job at ACP, I participated as media and sat in the pews feigning an air of authority while I dissected the trends from the runway.
As you are well aware – next week is Air New Zealand Fashion Week and I’m preparing for a week of HARD work (seriously). I’ve booked in the Grandma, booked in our part time nanny and I’m ready to go – camera, video, notebook and sneakers.
How long does it take you to get ready? What do you do and what do you leave for last? What do you WISH you had more time to do?
Is Mercury in Retrograde? Apparently when the planet Mercury goes backward anything to do with communications goes belly up. If my past week is anything to go by, then Mercury is ZOOMING in reverse, very, very fast.
I have a friend who seems to be on a never-ending quest to get her hair right. She’s gone from dark brunette, to varying shades of lighter and has now decided she wants to go slightly darker again – so that the blonde can grow out and she can emulate a celebrity look she saw in a magazine.
From the file of ‘things we really don’t want to know but have to because they could kill us’ is a new report saying that sure as the sun will rise, sun tan beds are considered as certain as causing cancer as smoking is.
Someone call her a stylist! Jessica Simpson does us all a favour and sends out a big reminder of why we should never, ever, wear horizontal stripes and why those considering a body-con dress should only do so if they are tall, leggy, slender and called Gisele.
…I could get away with wearing really dark lips like Danielle – here she is in the Tribalist shade from M.A.C.
I woke up this morning with lips that looked like I’d been slugging back copious amounts of red wine, only I hadn’t, they were just chapped.
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