(16) the Fashion Week experience
making my teenage dreams and London intentions come true in one week.
Alooo, how’s the fall equinox treating you? I hope you are taking a moment to reflect with the sweet nostalgia of the weather changing and if it’s still hot where you are, embrace the warmness in your skin one more time. Before I start, I want to share with you the changes I made to my website, it’s way friendlier than before and it has my most recent content right up front, go check it out here and don’t hesitate to click around.
This past week(s) I’ve felt as if I am living everything I wanted a year ago and, funny enough, in my teenage years. When I was 12 I used to have a subscription to Teen Vogue magazine that went on for 5 years. That was my go to journal I loved to read; it had everything I wanted to know about fashion: careers in the industry, moodboards, profiles on young personalities, beauty tricks and very interesting articles on being a girl going through junior and high school. It made me realize that I wanted to do anything and everything that had to do with fashion.
On the evening of my birthday I was talking to my best friend and I told her I was very excited. There’s an emotion I get from putting things into the universe, I get an eager curiosity to know if the universe is going to grasp them. I had sent some emails and filled some forms to volunteer at this season’s London Fashion Week without the high expectation of receiving a response. The days went by and I had it! From one PR agency I got two shows, I would be helping doing the backstage dressing. Everything was perfect: the dates and times I was going to volunteer, saturday and tuesday, didn’t overlap with my job.
On saturday the 17th, the first show I went was from a Taiwanese brand named Oqliq. The style is very much tech-wear, casual cool urban. It was in this club venue called Ministry of Sound at Elephant & Castle (great restrooms for mirror selfies btw, trendy color all over).
I had the perfect model to dress, Patrick, he had three looks and what I did was basically hand him the clothes and make sure the look was styled like the picture the brand gave us. He was amazing, very nice, patient and talented person. I also met some of the other volunteers and got close to two very interesting and cool ladiesss, Aleks and Sofia. (Hi!)
Going back into my wishes, at the beginning of september I said to myself I was going to focus my energy on being more social. The only person I know in London besides my partner, is my boss. (And the nice guys at the food and wine and the local coffee shop and butchery, but I consider them familiar faces.) So these events would finally make me go out there and meet people with who I have common interests.
In my search for fashion gigs that I could do on THE week, a friend of mine from Mexico City (hi Jacqueline <3) recommended that I search for an exhibition that she knew about yet didn’t have the complete info. Same, days went by, and by looking at the LFW schedule I found it! The next thing I did was look the event producers, Estudio Museo, on Instagram and e-mailed them right away. I didn’t know anything about the exhibition, but I wanted to be there.
Once again, I was very happy to get a response. I thought there would be no reply because the event was like, the next day. I was more than excited to know now that the event was focused on Latin American fashion. Sol, the producer, replied in spanish, we chated about the exhibition, about how could I help and she invited me to document the event in pictures.
I just love when one thing takes to another… After I took some photographs of that night, she invited me to another exhibition that she put up on the Argentinian Residency with amazing fashion, product and jewellery design from Argentinian creators.
The next show I had in line was on tuesday the 20th. It was for Klamby, a modest fashion brand from Indonesia. This show in particular was a very beautiful one, very classic, set in a very glamorous hotel that’s right across Trafalgar Square and the National Gallery.
The energy was amazing, all female models, very diverse in skin, size, personalities. I got to chat with my teammates for a long while, got to know more people, made friends, watch beautiful clothes, it was an amazing atmosphere. On my way back home at the tube station I ran into two other girls, Sophia and Patrycja, who were in the show volunteering as well and it was the nicest conversation I’ve ever had in London with new strangers hahaha, it really makes me so happy to meet people I can get to form a friendship.
It doesn’t end here. Last thing I did was stumble upon an instastory from Minena, a Mexican brand that I really like and got to know because of my dear friend, Jacqueline. They were having a pop-up store in Marylebone and it was the perfect setting for walking around a very beautiful area, seeing extreeeemely cute clothes and meet more amazing people (Hi Mar, Chloe and Maria!).
I loved every single second of what I got to experience from London Fashion Week. This week made me wake that part of me that needed a push; I certainly felt more creative, more social and more confident of what I like to do and my ability to reach out and get things done to make my not-so-forgotten dreams come true.
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If you read all the way through here, thank you, thank you, thank you. Writing this made me revive those feelings and what I love most about having everything here is that I can revisit them any time I want. And a song to remember them…