stylist of the week

a little late, sure. but i was working! fashionworking!

this week's stylist is, of course, sarah jay.

my new stylist friend, who invited me to new york, and was awesome and helpful and wonderful. so much! so much learning! and thai food and candy...

anyways. i don't have any images of sarah's styling work, but i did get to see her portfolio. and it's superb. she's done a lot of tv work - canada's next top model, project runway canada, cosmo tv and so o n and so on. super cool. she didn't go to school to be a stylist. and she's been super successful. which all makes me very glad and inspired.

here she is overseeing a run-through for deux fm, a canadian designer who showed at the green shows on wednesday, feb 17th. (there were some dresses i REALLY wanted in that show.)



and, quickly, here are a few of the highlights/favourites from new york. (holy cow!)

favourite model:
-kelly. she was super-great. she filled in in lots of shows she hadn't originally been cast in. worked hard. had awesome red hair. was really nice. here she is backstage wearing something from the Ekovarhuset (house of organic) collection.



act cool moment:
-i pretended my brain wasn't exploding when i recognized laura from the last cycle of america's next top model. (she came in 2nd.) she walked for deux fm. also notable was 'lazy-eye', also from antm, whose name i can't seem to remember for the life of me.



nerdy celebrity sighting highlight:
-karlie kolss! it's freaking karlie kloss! she is THE model. now. everywhere. every second page of vogue. i saw her exiting the isaac mizrahi show at bryan park. (no, i wasn't in the show. of course not. i was stalking the bryant park tents waiting to see someone awesome. success!!!) she is really tall. whoa. i've seen edmonton models. tall thin. then i saw the green show models. taller some thinner. then i saw the BIG NAME models. giants. giraffes. soooooo tall sooooo thin. wow. whoa. (note. i was worried that i would feel less than thin around these model-types. but instead i just felt nice and normal. they're like creatures from another world. amazing and beautiful, but... well... specialweird.)



i also saw jason schwartzman at liquiteria - a little juice bar type place very near our venue. we went there a lot for hot ginger water to ward off our coughs.

awesome things:
-i picked up a copy of WWD (women's wear daily) each day of my trip. it made me feel pretty cool.
-i felt surprisingly safe and comfortable in new york. it was really homey, and i think that most of the time i didn't look too much like a tourist. before this trip i said i didn't think i could hack living and trying to fashionwork in new york. now i say i could. and i think i'd do good, too.
-i called a show! crazy. for willian. it was her (kia's) first fashion show. and mine too. awwww. i did make a fairly significant mistake and que lights and music to start before sarah was ready in the back... ahem... but they covered well and overcame my blunder. and now that's a mistake i'll never ever make again! phew!
-i had breakfast with our old friend clugger the scotsman. so nice to see him and catch up. and a really great breakfast, too.


lowlight:
in bryant park i saw a puff of frizzy red hair and thought 'AHHHHHHHHHH! GRACE CODDINGTON!!!!', but it wasn't. sad.

there's WAY more stuff, of course, but that's a starter. i have olympics to watch! i am SO behind!