Pre-Fashion Week Re-Cap (Get Ready for #NYFW )

Today’s the first day of New York Fashion Week and I’m already exhausted. It hasn’t even begun, but with the cancellation of Fashion’s Night Out this year, everyone’s squeezing in events leading up to the week before we all get “fashion week fatigue.”

Get ready for a week of my #NYFW posts. I apologize in advance for a lot of re-caps and reviews, but this season, for the first time ever, I booked out the whole week to cover all of the shows and events, and there’s a TON of them.

Last night I started with the E! Fashion Police and Benefit Cosmetics event at the Thompson Hotel Rooftop with some of my favorites in the beauty world, Maria Scali, Francesca Salafina and Suma of The Fashion Beauty Junkie. What a way to kick off NYFW! I rode the elevator up with John Legend and his gorgeous wife, Chrissy Teigan, where we chatted about shoes—which seems to always be the great equalizer among the rich and famous and the common fashion folk like me.

Just when I felt like a big shot because a bouncer escorted us through the party after complaining there was no room to move anywhere, I got booted from getting my makeup done (luckily she finished both eyes) so that Joan Rivers and Giuliana Rancic could film E! Fashion Police, so I sat on the couch next to Ashley Tisdale. I’m not sure how this all happened, but luckily when Joan Rivers graciously (and hilariously) started chatting with us, Suma had the chutzpah to ask if we could get a picture with her…so I have evidence!

Yesterday also seemed to be a preview of whats to come for jewelry. I met with Jessica, a rep for Chloe + Isabel Jewelry, who showed me the latest collection, which was inspired by Art Deco Paris. The jeweled bracelet above was my favorite in the collection.

I noticed a theme when I attended the Naked Label press preview at the Lodge Gallery in the Lower East Side last night. I spoke to the designer, Allison about her inspiration for the spring “Siren” collection and she said it was a mixture of Art Deco meets the under water world of Atlantis. Unlike her last collection, which felt somewhat space age, and inspired me to use her piece in a shoot for the fall issue of Accessories Magazine, this time I was transported to a futuristic post-apocalyptic version of The Great Gatsby with her mix of heavy metals and acrylic that like her video lookbook, was quite dreamy.