{"id":29606,"date":"2017-02-10T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-181994-533056.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=29606"},"modified":"2019-12-07T22:30:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T03:30:07","slug":"new-york-fashion-week-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styletomes.com\/fashion\/new-york-fashion-week-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Fashion Week 2017: My Packed Day 1 Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"

What\u2019s good my loves!? Day 1 of New York Fashion Week is DONE! AHHHH!!!<\/p>\n

What is this now, my 6th straight season as a fashion blogger covering NYFW? Before that, I went as a starry-eyed fashion lover and (sometimes) model. Mostly I went for the free drinks at the afterparties. Those were the days.<\/p>\n

Lucky for my waistline, I hardly ever do the parties anymore. That’s because I\u2019m severely exhausted by the end of the day and have an early wake-up call nearly every day of the damn week. Fashion week is fun and games until you get a severe hangover and still have to attend the shows the next morning. There\u2019s a reason why you read so any articles about editors and writers skipping out on a sweet sleep instead of partying out.<\/p>\n

That said, I decided to go out last night to the Fohr Card NYFW launch party. Nothing bad happened because I set a hard boundary for myself: leave by 9 PM. Happened to pass the boundary by 40 minutes as I got caught up in conversations. So, two glasses of wine (or 3 short plastic half-cup fulls?) and a few fun conversations later, I was applying my night brightening mask and eye cream, in my jammies and in bed by 10PM, ready to tackle the next day.<\/p>\n

Anyway, is it me or is the schedule looking peculiarly packed this season? I mean, it\u2019s usually packed, but it looks especially tight. And that\u2019s with the CFDA snubbing Queen Yeezy as he attempts to squeeze himself in on the official roster last minute, yet again. Not that he needs to be on the roster to pull the names to his show.<\/p>\n

Let me get to my recap lest I lose you in my incoherent rants.<\/p>\n

EXTRA EXTRA! I\u2019m doing a LIVE stream with PocketLive.TV <\/a>on Monday, February 13th as I tackle NYFW! Join my Truman Show experience. I\u2019ll just be hanging out on camera, and you can join my party!! Tell me what lipstick to wear and which shoes I need to rock that day!<\/em><\/h4>\n

New York Fashion Week 2017: Day 1 Rundown<\/h3>\n

7:15 AM:<\/em><\/strong> I wake up a little earlier than my usual 8 AM today. My husband\u2019s in California on business, and I\u2019m juggling caring for my baby girl (Kitty) and baby boy (Pup) with the NYFW schedule. Wishing he were in NY this week so he could take the baby boy on walks.<\/p>\n

7:40 AM:<\/em><\/strong> Up and about, looking out the window and checking the weather obsessively. There’s a blizzard outside. Reconsidering whether it’s a good idea to make my way downtown. From the 47th floor, the wind and snowfall looks brutal.<\/p>\n

8:00 AM:<\/em><\/strong> Makeup is in full swing. I obsessively check my calendar to make sure I don\u2019t miss anything and don\u2019t wind up in the wrong location. This frenetic checking is my OCD portion of the day. Other notable OCD parts include: immediately after a show, immediately before a show, immediately after having a cup of coffee, in transit between venues, and other such moments.<\/p>\n

8:30 AM:<\/em><\/strong> Coffee, breakfast, hair getting done. I’m thinking that me going down to Clarkson Sq. is not going to happen. I walk the dog and have a REALLY hard time navigating the enormous slush piles and little lakes that formed by the curbs.<\/p>\n

9:00 AM:<\/strong> I set up the live stream and decide my best bet is seeing the show on my computer screen. Seriously, this is one of the best seats in the house guys. The NYFW live stream is my favorite!<\/p>\n

10:00 AM:<\/em><\/strong> Nicholas K<\/p>\n

Nicholas K is like my NYFW best friend. The show always opens NYFW (though I\u2019m used to the earlier, 9 AM start) and I\u2019m always impressed by how organized it is. The looks are always effortlessly edgy, yet maintain enough semblance for mainstream wear.<\/p>\n

You know what I noticed season after season of covering? You can easily layer the clothes from different seasons without losing the integrity of each season\u2019s message. How brilliant is that? In an industry that seems to be endlessly obsessed with providing utilitarian clothing, this is the freshest concept you can adopt as a brand.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the opening look, a metallic duo, made me immediately giddy. It was a completely fresh take on 90s edginess. I wanted several of the looks straight off the runway to keep me company the rest of this fashion week. Christopher and Nicholas, the brother\/sister duo behind the brand, came out at the end with their dog to top things off! So sweet!<\/p>\n

Show Brief:<\/strong><\/em> THE 90S WAS A DECADE PROMISING COMMUNAL DIVERSITY AND UNITY. BEGINNING WITH THE RELEASE OF NELSON MANDELA AND CONTINUING COMMUNITY ADVOCACY OF THE GUARDIAN ANGELS, THIS DECADE WAS ALSO THE GOLDEN AGE OF HIPHOP. ARTISTS WIDE RANGING TOPICS, POLITICAL MILITANCY UNDERTONES AND EXPERIMENTALISM BECAME CELEBRATION OF DIVERSE WIDESPREAD CULTURAL ACCEPTANCE. THE LATE 90S DIGITAL WORLD BROUGHT THE PROMISE OF A GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN COMMUNITY. RECENT EVENTS SEEM TO UNRAVEL THIS PROGRESS AND IT\u2019S NOW RELEVANT TO REVISIT THE PROMISE OF THE 90S.<\/em><\/p>\n