Farewell 2014!

There's only about two hours until midnight and the first day of 2015. I have been M.I.A. from my blog for a few months because I got knocked around by life. I encountered some situations and people who were catalysts to a lot of personal growth...to say the least! I had to put more attention than I wanted on getting all of my...challenge under control. They are still lingering, but it's now at the point where I wait for the miracles to show up. I've done all I can, now I let the Universe do it's part.

2014 wasn't a bad year, it just wasn't the greatest for me. The one bright spot was meeting my guy, "V" at the Loving Day celebration back in June. We've been having a lot of fun since then. He's out of the country to be with his family for the holidays. Can't wait 'til he comes back so we can Christen the New Year!, Hehe!

 

I saw this quote all over Facebook today, "Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365 day book. Write a good one!" I plan to write a better and much longer book in 2015. My experiences have given me a new perspective to do better, be better and live better. I choose to live a life of complete freedom in 2015. I look forward to starting over and recreating my life the way I really want it to be!

Veteran's Day

My dad was thirty  years in the Navy. This day is for him and all of the people who defend and protect tour country. Salute!

ComiCon

 I worked two days at Comicon earlier this month at the Jacob Javits Center.. I was outside scanning people in and out. I walked around on my lunch break, but I could only see so much since I only had a half an hour break. I saw enough that I would love to attend next year. It was big and there was a lot to see, but I am not diehard enough to do more than one day. This is also where George Clooney showed up from his short honeymoon to sit on one of the panels. I didn't see anyone famous, but all the people I scanned, in costume (and most were) and not in costume, were pretty cool!

Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Spring 2015: Summerized Rundown

Richard Chai

 

Kai

Dominik

 Abiah

Tonya Taylor

Mona Kid

LaCoste

Andreas

Venexiana 

Elena

Donna Karan Collection

 Kendal Jenner

I didn't dress her but I think she is a decent model despite the naysayers. The word going around during fashion week was that she was being bullied by some of the other models because they thought she got shows because of her name. Jealous much?

 I wasn't assigned to dress this model, but ended up helping her because the DK staff dress one of the other models I was assigned.

 Ophelie

 Stephanie

The DK staff thought the dress was too complicated for me to figure to how to put on this models so they dressed her themselves. I love how fashion folk exaggerate things in their heightened state of hysteria during fashion week. This dress was not that complicated to put on the model, but I don't argue, it's pointless.

Vera Wang

 Julia B

 Waleska

Jenny Packham

 Frida

Guilliana

CBS Fashion Rocks

I was feeling to lazy to really hunt down pictures for this show and it was mostly about the famous people who were performing: Jennifer Lopez, Nicki Minaj, Justin Beiber, Kiss... I wasn't all that interested in showing them since we didn't work with any of them, but Super Model of the world Naomi Campbell was backstage with her "people" to change for her appearance on the show and she took a few moments to take pictures with all of us dressers. Someone took a group shot, but once again I didn't feel like looking for it and I was cut out anyway so...
 

All the above are blurry pictures I tried to take of  Naomi Campbell at the Fashion Rocks show backstage. Why in the hell does my cellphone camera not want to work for those crucial shots?! That's Audrey Smaltz in the third and fourth picture next to Naomi.

Abiah, who remembered me from last September when we did the Gap presentaion. That was the first time I had met him. He's becoming a much in demand male model.

My first time at Barclays was for this show.

Michael Kors 

Karmen

Boss Women

Suvi

 From Inside The Tents

 The girls skirts had led lights.

 Blurry cellphone picture of a dude in a robe

 This girls shoes were interesting. I couldn't get a better close up of them. I should have used my other camera instead of my cellphone.

I found out that  she is a shoe designer, hence, the cool shoes. Up close it was very diy. All you need is a plain pair of booties, some feathers, lace and a glue gun!

So pathetic! I sat in the tent for literally eight hours between shows and I didn't fint too many people interesting enough to take more pictures. I must be jaded.

They weren't giving away much this season, unfortunately.

Champagne gummie bears from the E!Entertainment lounge. 

A card from Papyrus

 My model, Ophelie(far right), from DK Collection had a picture in one of  the Dailey fashion periodicals.

 In Tribute

I wanted to add Oscar De La Renta here since I didn't post about his death last Monday. He was such a gentleman, always calm and collected backstage. We hadn't worked for him in the past five years but, it was special the times we did work for him. Bless his soul, he will be missed.

July 22, 1932 - October 20, 2014

This was the last show I worked for Oscar in the spring of 2008. I wasn't during fashion week and it was at the Armory on the east side, 60th street or something like that.  It was also my first time working with Jourdan Dunn.