I chose a comfortable thrifted sweater & jeans AKA
Jeggings! And fake keds comfort.
I enlisted a cute little friend who also went to my same college in Arkansas. We weren't at college together at all (she's 7 years younger than me) but her sorority advisor was from my time, and that sorority advisor hooked us up and I'm so glad. Here she is coming out of Juicy Couture on 5th. We decided to not even commit to a glass of champagne there. Too many places to go!
Our plan was to ride bikes around town, but we just left mine at 45th street and walked from there up to around 70th. I had this strategy that we should stay away from the super-trendy places and head uptown where we would be in a less-crowded environment and hopefully get some nice treatment and not be swept away by a flash mob.
I did install some dumb app on my phone and got BUSY on my
twitter account during this madness.
The warm-up sighting that made me feel really good about my strategy was when we walked up on Michelle Branch playing "If I could fall" or whatever her song is/was and there wasn't even a crazy crowd watching her-
She was in ANn Taylor.
I'm going to GLAZE over a bunch of stuff b/c we saw so much but we ran into a friend of mine who does amazing make-up. He had done this window-
We stopped in Herve Leger and we were tempted to participate in their event of trying on a dress and being sketched by an artist. We were feeling too lazy to change out of all our clothes to shimmy into one of those dresses. We had champagne & macaroons to relax and re-group.
I had a really good feeling about the events I had read about at Carolina Herrera. I love her work and hope to one day get a gown or dress from her. I also love that she named her daughter Carolina Herrera Jr.
There was a PR team with clip-board situation outside of it and that made me nervous that there was zero chance of us getting in. Katie simply asked nicely if we could come in and they put us in a small velvet-rope holding pen for a minute then almost instantly let us in.
We took champagne & snacks and I noticed a lady who looked just like Christina Hendricks from Mad Men. Oh my god it was her! I snatched Katie by her collar and we pinned ourselves to the wall in eye-shot of her.
We moved in closer and weren't allowed to photograph her or speak to her - tight security- so I only got this terrible quality photo:
And outside we took another terrible quality photo in front of the monitor showing what this sketch-man was drawing - he was drawing Christina. I guess to print on these tote bags they were selling.
We re-re-grouped and decided things couldn't get much better than that.
We were walking back south toward where my bike was locked up and we saw the Ken Truck! I had read that it was going to be a Barbie truck, but it was a Ken Truck and it was indeed precious.
They even had the gray plastic twist-tie around their waists!
Katie took a pic with some of the Kens that fell out of the back of the truck:
We visited my make-up friend Jesse and he was so miserable working. Last year I was working at PF and I was Supremely miserable dealing with the crowds & mess.
I was soooo happy to go to FNO as a civilian! You can see
my photo set on FLickr if you need more. My Photo skills were fast & furious so my pics aren't the best.
Cutest freebie:
Hatch Show Print freshly printed post-cards.
I spent zero dollars unless you count a $2 can of Diet Coke I bought to wet my whistle at the end. I didn't even spend money on cabs cuz I rode the bike!
