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    From Observed To Observer: Fashion Week Is A 3-Ring Circus

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    Image of lostinalunchbox lostinalunchbox
    09/15/09

    In reply to From Observed To Observer: Fashion Week Is A 3-Ring Circus
    i worked many a fashion show back in the day (the days specifically from 1997-2006 or so) several of those years in the bryant park tents, as a lighting technician. its a crazy, zoo-like scene. millions of dollars, literally, for a 20 minute show, with people acting like animals - you ain't seen a ruthless stampede until you've seen the bashing on the media risers half an hour before show.

    not being a celebrity watcher, or fashionable in the slightest, i was generally unimpressed; the only time i got excited was when Patsy and Edina were at some show once, interviewing people in character before some show. I actually snuck down from my follow spot perch to watch. awesome!
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    Image of Penny Penny
    09/15/09

    @lostinalunchbox: OMG that was for their most recent special, and I still crack up when they find Edina's son at The Strand and she talks about how books give her itchy eyes. Classic.
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    Image of jenrobe jenrobe
    09/15/09

    In reply to From Observed To Observer: Fashion Week Is A 3-Ring Circus
    "I went to a show by a designer who is young and — though Australian — very talented"

    Jenna, your Kiwi-ness is showing!
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    Image of greydragonfly greydragonfly
    09/15/09

    In reply to From Observed To Observer: Fashion Week Is A 3-Ring Circus
    "I know who you are and you are not on my list" is a Compliment with a capital C Jenna!
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    Image of polypam polypam
    09/15/09

    In reply to From Observed To Observer: Fashion Week Is A 3-Ring Circus
    I used to go to fashion week (have had my own fashion site since before blogging was invented) and got loads of invites but was always relegated to "standing" section since I'm not so important. So I'd go to the shows, the PR girls at the table would find my name on the list and scrawl a seat number or S (standing) on a plain index card and hand it to me. They always let the "seat people" in first and only let "standing people" in after (it's a very "stars upon thars" Sneetches thing). The lines killed me. So I got into the habit of carrying around my own index cards and Sharpie markers, creating my own seat assignments and getting into shows. That was the best.

    And with that said, Nicole Miller would always give me a seat. With my name on it. I love her.
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    Image of ChildBride ChildBride
    09/15/09

    In reply to From Observed To Observer: Fashion Week Is A 3-Ring Circus
    I have had a sort of similar experience except in reverse (from Observer to Observed). I read fashion mags and followed fashion on the sly for years because I'm from this very New England-y, LL Bean-y, Quaker intellectual environment where fashion and media was considered beyond vapid (my relatives are all teachers, potters and therapists) and my mother the entomologist openly mocked my reading of Vogue. But I still looked at the coverage-- wistfully, with the idea that of course I was going to law school or grad school and going to have a "real" "meaningful" career. Anyway, I moved overseas after graduating from school and upon moving back to the States, quite randomly got a entry-level Devil Wears Prada-esque job at a fashion house, who only hired me cause I spoke French and they needed another person on staff who could make calls to Paris. So all that stuff that I used to read about or watch--the Tents, Fashion Week, herding models, fielding calls from Vogue and Bazaar--I am now doing. It's beyond a head-trip, especially since I don't have any fashion friends (all my friends work in non-profits or are bloggers or some such Brooklyn-y job) and I still get a lot of grief from professors I'm in touch with. I realize when people talk about the designer's assisants scampering around--Holy shit, that's me they're talking about! I can only think of the analogue of being a White House reporter and getting to be blase about talking to the president or being an actress and realizing that people speculate on what your life MUST be like all the time.
    This was random and not well thought out.
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    Image of Penny Penny
    09/15/09

    In reply to From Observed To Observer: Fashion Week Is A 3-Ring Circus
    Mobbing the open bar at 10am?

    I've always thought I was just a drunk but now I realize I just need to live in a fashion show tent.
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    Image of Raederle Raederle
    09/15/09

    @Penny: On the minus side, the sandwiches are under armed guard.
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    Image of hfree hfree
    09/15/09

    @Raederle: Isn't that such a fashion world cliche? The booze is free and flowing, but to eat you have to get past a big guy named "Tiny".
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    Image of Jenna Jenna
    09/15/09

    @Penny: To be fair, the 10am show starts closer to 11, and after having lined up for it since 9:30...I mean, I'm just sayin'.
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    Image of aspiringexpatriate aspiringexpatriate
    09/15/09

    @Penny: Well, it is an open bar. I doubt they'd mob a cash bar so willingly.
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    Image of Julia Allison Julia Allison
    09/16/09

    Hmm ... "the booze is free and flowing" hasn't been my experience at Fashion Week at all ... by that I mean, I've covered it for the last five seasons, and never had anything to drink. Furthermore, I've never gotten the sense that anyone else was drunk at Fashion Week either. Maybe I'm not talking to the right people?
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    Image of elvirahancock elvirahancock
    09/16/09

    @Julia Allison: Not sure if you are referring to NY fashion week (I have never been), but I can say that Paris fashion week openly serves beverages. For the morning shows coffee and a variety of teas are on hand, by midday champagne is readily available and of course free of charge. If you have an invitation regardless of if it's standing or sitting there is no waiting in line, but rather a line following others inside. Last year Mr. Kanye West alongside his hot pink spandexed lady friend were in front of me in this line and he stepped on my toes acknowledging it with an over the shoulder glance, but without apology. French profanity followed.
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    Image of Jenna Jenna
    09/16/09

    @Julia Allison: But there's that bar...right next to the 'Wichcraft stand. Where they serve drinks. For free. And all those women wandering around with crates of Peroni.

    I would not lie to anyone about free booze.
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    Image of prestocaro fears the culling prestocaro fears the culling
    07/02/09

    In reply to New Ads Help Keira, Posh & Becks Make Rent; Kate Gosselin's Clothing Line On Hold
    All I can do is dream of a show that unites Kelly Bensimone and Kate Gosselin.


    We're So Down To Earth Plus 10?


    Death of Logic and the English Language?


    Mommy Dearest?

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    Image of Witchtit: Your low productivity advisor Witchtit: Your low productivity advisor
    07/02/09

    In reply to New Ads Help Keira, Posh & Becks Make Rent; Kate Gosselin's Clothing Line On Hold
    Posh thoughts: Beck, I had the most horrible dream last night. You had hitler-hair, and I had space-samurai hair and everyone could see us in our underwear......creepy.
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    Image of hydrogen_jukebox hydrogen_jukebox
    07/02/09

    In reply to New Ads Help Keira, Posh & Becks Make Rent; Kate Gosselin's Clothing Line On Hold
    It is my opinion that if someone has to describe themselves as "so down-to-earth"...they probably aren't.
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    Image of hydrogen_jukebox hydrogen_jukebox
    07/02/09

    @hydrogen_jukebox: (or whatever the proper grammatical structure is.)
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    Image of Grim Reaper of the Forest Grim Reaper of the Forest
    07/02/09

    In reply to New Ads Help Keira, Posh & Becks Make Rent; Kate Gosselin's Clothing Line On Hold
    Posh - I've really got to pee, and these spanx-like underwear are not helping matters. Do you think he would notice if I just let it dribble out a little? There is so much body oil on me already.
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    Image of la.donna.pietra la.donna.pietra
    07/02/09

    In reply to New Ads Help Keira, Posh & Becks Make Rent; Kate Gosselin's Clothing Line On Hold
    Victoria: "Hmm. Deverbal nouns are verbs (or verb phrases) that have been nominalized with a nominalizing enclitic or converted into a noun through zero derivation (that is, verbs that are used syntactically as nouns without an added nominalizer)."


    David: "Bored now."

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    Image of SomeAuthorGirl SomeAuthorGirl
    07/02/09

    In reply to New Ads Help Keira, Posh & Becks Make Rent; Kate Gosselin's Clothing Line On Hold
    Victoria: "Yep. MINE."


    As an aside, that is a pretty hot ad. I'd be smugly looking daggers at all and sundry if I got to pin Becks to a big pile of rope too.

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    Image of PreposterousHypothesis PreposterousHypothesis
    07/02/09

    In reply to New Ads Help Keira, Posh & Becks Make Rent; Kate Gosselin's Clothing Line On Hold
    Victoria: Have you ever wondered if there's more to life than being ridiculously good-looking?
    David: Um, like WHAT, Victoria?
    Victoria: I don't know, like...helping people.
    David: Um, WHAT people, Victoria?
    Victoria: I don't know. PEOPLE WHO NEED HELP!
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    Image of BlondeGoddess BlondeGoddess
    07/02/09

    @PreposterousHypothesis: 'Like, start a Posh Center For Children Who Can't Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too.'
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    07/02/09

    In reply to New Ads Help Keira, Posh & Becks Make Rent; Kate Gosselin's Clothing Line On Hold
    Kelly Bensimon loves an agglutinating, polysynthetic head-marking Southern Athabaskan language with gnarly deverbal nouns?


    The things you learn from Jezebel.

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    Image of lilbobbytables lilbobbytables
    07/02/09

    @la.donna.pietra: She is clearly a linguistic scholar. I look forward to reading her thoughts on the effects of text speak on semantics.
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    Image of Tart of Darkness Tart of Darkness
    07/02/09

    @lilbobbytables is a la-di-da feminist: and snakes!
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    07/02/09

    In reply to New Ads Help Keira, Posh & Becks Make Rent; Kate Gosselin's Clothing Line On Hold
    Posh thought: I really hope I'm showing my fierceness in my eyes
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    Image of GirlFailer GirlFailer
    07/02/09

    @dianersb was bit by a zombie: Or, I really hope I'm showing my fierceness in my neck.
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